Economist

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.
  
• Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
  
• Perform other related duties as required.
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• For P3/NOC – 6 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 5 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 4 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree
  
• Field(s) of Education: Economics, Statistics, or related field(s)
  
• Certificates and/or Licenses: Not specified.
  

Experience: 

• 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.