Laterite Lead Economist Jobs in Ethiopia
Laterite Lead Economist Jobs in Ethiopia
Laterite’s Lead Economist will: Provide technical leadership to our global teams.
This will involve overseeing our technical research projects, reviewing outputs at each stage of the research process and responding to technical questions coming from the team.
Continuously strengthen the quality of our work, by identifying systemic fixes and ways to improve our research and quality review processes, by ensuring Laterite is always at the cutting edge and by putting the right systems in place to our work is useful within the context of the countries and the sectors we work in.
Grow our portfolio of research projects and strategic learning partnerships, by working closely with our business development and communications team to identify new opportunities and lead the technical component of proposals, by growing our network of academic partnerships and by representing Laterite at research/policy events.
Contribute high quality external publications, in the form of blogs, policy briefs, papers, to increase the visibility of our work and contribute to the policy dialogue in the countries/sectors where we work.
Profile
We are looking for an accomplished economist/research who combines excellent technical skills with experience in mentoring and managing teams of researchers. Our future colleague has:
Postgraduate degree (ideally a PhD) in economics, development
economics, statistics, or related field with a strong component of quantitative data analysis
At least 7 years of research work experience acquired in academia, a public policy or social research organization, or management consulting (or 5 years if you have a PhD)
Demonstrated experience in leading and mentoring researchers.
Strong skills in relevant areas for Laterite’s technical work, including research design, sampling, analysis of survey data, program evaluation techniques and econometrics
Demonstrated interest in Laterite’s core sectors: education, public health, agriculture, youth & livelihoods, and urbanization & migration.
Demonstrated experience in writing and editing grant applications, research papers and
scientific output reports
Proficiency in STATA is required. Knowledge of R and/or Python is a strong plus
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Laterite Lead Economist Jobs in Ethiopia
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