Economist Job at UNHCR - Career Opportunity in Zambia
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Vacancy title:
Economist

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Administrative & Office ]

 

Jobs at:

UNHCR

Deadline of this Job:
October 9, 2019  

Duty Station:
Within Zambia , Lusaka , South - Central Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:

Procedures and Eligibility
Before submitting an application, UNHCR staff members intending to apply to this Job Opening are requested to consult the Recruitment and Assignments Policy (RAP, UNHCR/HCP/2017/2 and the Recruitment and Assignments Administrative Instruction (RAAI), UNHCR/AI/2017/7 OF 15 August 2017. .

Job Responsibilities:
Project Management
• Lead the design and implementation of assessments and other data-driven products related to the socio-economic welfare of refugees, forcibly displaced persons and host communities, wherever possible through coordination with the National Bureau of Statistics and World Bank Country Economist in inclusion of forcibly displaced into National Poverty Assessment.
• Successfully manage all partnerships and activities in the collection of comparable socio-economic (poverty) data on forcibly displaced
• Contribute to defining and promoting a vision for the use of socio-economic data, particularly in planning, programming and advocacy at the country, regional and headquarters levels.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the state of literature on poverty analysis for forcibly displaced.
• Manage data collection activities, as appropriate. This may take place at all stages of data collection (preparation, survey design, sampling, onsite data collection oversight and supervision and quality assurance, data analysis and report writing).
• Conduct data analysis using econometric programs (R, Stata).
Data Collection and Analysis
• Consolidate raw primary and secondary datasets into final datasets to be used for analysis, as needed. This will involve creating and merging various sources of data and may require programming matching algorithms, linking up with field staff for additional information, and performing manual matching.
• Clean all datasets and create all necessary indicators. Work with the research team to design a thorough plan for data analysis and carry out the coding to perform this analysis. Common analytical tasks include production of descriptive statistics and regression analysis for various outputs such as briefs, presentations and academic papers.
• For any field survey, assist in programming the instrument and developing protocols to ensure high quality data.
• Properly prepare and document relevant datasets for archiving on the UNHCR Microdata Library.
• Lead the preparation of research papers including formatting and creating tables, graphs, and related analysis.
• Engage with country operation, partners and government, as appropriate, in the design and implementation of data collection and research projects.
Coordination
• Ensure good communication and coordination among members of the country team, Governments, researchers and partners, serving as a link between these parties.
• Lead drafting and writing of presentations, analytical reports and research and policy briefs.
• Participate in official missions and deliver capacity building and training activities for partners and governments.
• Identify research opportunities and contribute to proposals for research partnerships and funding.
• Reflect UNHCR’s positions on policy, advocacy and programming issues as they relate to the protection, resilience and solutions of refugees with medium-term economic and social development programmes.
• Represent UNHCR in negotiations and meetings relating to socio-economic profiling of forcibly displaced and wider partners research in country.
• Represent UNHCR in technical capacity with external actors.
• Perform other related duties as required.


Job Skills:
• MS-Drafting, Documentation, Data Presentation
• MS-Networking
• MG-Project Management
• IT-Statistical software (eg. SPSS, Stata, CSPRO, etc.)
• MS-Statistics Analysis
• MS-Data Collection and Analysis
• (Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential))


Job Qualifications:
• At least six (6) years of demonstrated experience in economics, analysing data and conducting research.
• Familiarity with processes of the World Bank, the African Development Bank or other international financial institutions, bilateral development agencies or research institutions..


Job Education Requirements: Not Specified


Job Experience Requirements:
• Familiarity with displacement and development issues.
• Experience of working with the private sector.
• Experience working in applied development economics.
• Experience in poverty modelling.
• Experience leading primary data collection effort and data analysis.
• Experience of working with synergies between the humanitarian-development nexus..

 

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Job application procedure
To apply for this job please visit  https://public.msrp.unhcr.org/psc/RAHRPRDX/EMPLOYEE/HR/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL  .

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Job Info
Job Category: Accounting/ Finance jobs in Zambia
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: October 9, 2019
Duty Station: Lusaka
Posted: 26-09-2019
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 26-09-2019
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 26-09-2065
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