Well Paying Consultant Economist Job at the World Bank for 2024
Deadline : 23 March 2024
Duty Station / Location : Washington, DC,United States
Background About the World Bank
The World Bank (WB) is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID) dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development on a livable planet. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the World Bank works with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges.
Brief Information and Context of the Position
The Development Economics Vice Presidency seeks to increase understanding of development policies and programs by providing intellectual leadership and analytical services to the Bank and the development community. Within this Vice Presidency, the Enterprise Analysis Unit (DECEA) has developed the Enterprise Surveys (ES) which is the main survey instrument that links conditions of the business environment with firm performance. The ES covers regulatory compliance costs, logistical impediments, and business-government relations in sectors such as manufacturing, retail, and other services..
Building from its extensive database created over more than 15 years the Unit is now in a position to expand its design, implementation and monitoring of the Enterprise Surveys to cover a broader set of countries with greater frequency and to implement improvements in the methodology as decided in an ongoing internal and external discussion. This also responds to the greater demand for ES data as an input for the new Business Ready Flagship report of the World Bank. The Unit is also expanding its work measuring the informal sector around the developing world. As a result of larger number of surveys completed, increased quantity and quality of data, and increased demand for data products and means of data dissemination, the unit looks to hire two Extended Term Consultants (ETC) to meet these data management demands.
Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and Accountabilities:
Highly motivated candidates are invited to join this dynamic and growing unit, requiring a mix of data management, programming with statistical software, and statistical analysis skills. Duties will include:
•Coordinate the day-to-day activities associated with finalizing all incoming Enterprise Survey and Informal Sector Enterprise Surveys datasets from the contractors.
•Support ongoing implementation projects in terms of monitoring and providing feedback to the contractors.
•Contribute to social media efforts including blog posts, Facebook, Twitter, and other activities.
•Undertake cross-support work for the Unit.
•Contribute to analytical notes and papers that use the Enterprise Surveys data. These notes either provide descriptive information or provide policy recommendations.
•Contribute to external data gathering by data mining and other techniques to complement the data collected by the Unit.
Selection Criteria
•Advanced or close to completion post-graduate degree in Economics, Statistics, or related discipline with a strong emphasis on survey implementation and data management.
•Knowledge of survey design and implementation and modern forms of data collection
•Experience working with large data sets, particularly with firm-level data, as well as with panel data.
•Experience linking, merging and cleaning different types of data from primary data, administrative data, and data scrapping, including web scrapping and, geo spatial among others.
•Excellent working knowledge of STATA, Microsoft Excel, R, or Python and other software needed for data analytics.
•Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. Native/fluent Spanish, French or Arabic strongly preferred.
•Well-developed analytical, interpersonal, and team working skills.
•Initiative, persistence and a positive attitude.
•Ability to deal sensitively in multicultural environments and build effective working relations with local and international partners in the private sector, academic advisors, and clients across the World Bank Group, including senior managers and regional units.
•We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
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