Responsibilities

The Junior Economist’s primary role will be coding in Stata and/or R, and ensuring the quality of research design, implementation and outputs. Depending on the projects, the Junior Economist may be responsible for any of the following activities:

• Evaluation design: Estimating required sample size for any monitoring and evaluation activity, coding for impact evaluation design (e.g. random assignment, matching), programming SurveyCTO questionnaires for digital data collection.
• Evaluation implementation: Coding to ensure high data quality, data management including data 
• Analysis: Conducting statistical analysis on datasets to produce results that inform recommendations and decisions.
• Data visualization: Presenting results for clients in easy to understand graphs, charts, tables, maps and other visualizations 
• Quality control: Reviewing code to ensure quality code written by others on the project team
• Publication: Preparing data for publication in IDinsight’s data repository. Also preparing manuscripts for the publication of reports and/or articles in academic journals
• Monitoring: Building dashboards and/or data visualization tools to track key performance indicators
• Working with culturally and geographically diverse project teams. Working with project teams that can be spread across the globe, from different nationalities and cultures.
• Supporting the technical professional development of staff. Providing individualized technical support for IDinsight Associates, and periodically leading scheduled and ad-hoc training of technical topics.

The Junior Economist will be expected to fulfill these responsibilities and others with professionalism and on strict deadlines. They will also be expected to propose, design and implement new initiatives for supporting project teams and increasing the technical rigor of IDinsight’s work.

Qualifications

• Deeply passionate about social, economic, and environmental policies and programs, and social impact.
• Undergraduate degree in economics, econometrics, statistics, or political science, public policy. Outstanding quantitative and critical thinking skills.
• Self-starter who will thrive in a start-up setting by taking ownership and initiative.
• Intellectual curiosity and sense of humor.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience preferred, including working on empirical evaluations and research.
• Significant experience with Stata or R required. Experience with additional programming languages is a plus.