Research Analyst / Senior Research Analyst - SPRRU

Overview

The role involves assessing global and domestic risks across economic sectors by managing data, developing analytical tools, and creating data visualization tools. The successful candidate will lead other research assistants and coordinate their work.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, document, and maintain systems to ingest and transform external and in-house data series.
• Import, process, consolidate, and transform data sets using statistical and/or econometric techniques.
• Analyze economic, financial, or statistical relationships in databases.
• Use text analysis and natural language processing techniques to retrieve relevant information from documents.
• Develop and maintain data visualization tools to communicate complex model results.
• Participate in the design and estimation of risk assessment models.
• Prepare Power Point presentations collecting the work of the unit.
• Carry out other assignments as instructed.

Required Experience

• Expertise in empirical forecasting, especially with tree-based and boosted models.
• Experience in Machine Learning time series panel estimation, model design, and evaluation is ideal.
• Knowledge of macroeconomic theory and concepts is required.
• Experience in macroeconomic and financial crises is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of data visualization tools, especially PowerBI.
• Any experience contributing to academic or policy-oriented economic research is a plus.
• Ability to lead a team of dedicated and part-time RAs through complex, multi-stage processes and prioritize key work processes and objectives.

Qualifications

Educational development, typically acquired by the completion of a university degree, or equivalent, in economics, finance, statistics, computer science, or a related field of study is required.

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