Research Officer

Number of positions

One

Duty station

Yangon with frequent field travels

Responsible to

Chief Research Officer

Organization Background: Inya Economics, a research organization, was founded in 2017. It is designed for economic policy discussion and economics research which are envisioned to the economic interest group.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Carrying out quantitative data analysis of existing secondary data sets and primary quantitative data
• Organizing, designing, collection and carrying out qualitative fieldwork in project areas
• Conducting qualitative analysis of data conducted through interviews, focus groups, workshops or other methods
• Carrying out desk research, using a range of methods and sources of data, related to Public Finance
• Undertake coordinating and collaborating research team and maintain communication with stakeholders and project partners
• Producing high quality and varied research outputs for a range of audiences including analysis, report writing and presentations where necessary
• Supervise research interns and monitor their progress and research assignments
• Translation and data management
• Maintain research team finance and other related finance workload

Qualification and Education

• Master degree in Economics, Public Administration, Political Science, Statistics, Political Economy, Development Studies

Experience

• Project and team management
• Extensive knowledge in research design, questionnaire development, data gathering methods, field management, data analysis and reporting
• Finance

Abilities & Skills

• Well understanding data visualization web or application
• Good skills in data analysis tools (statistical package is strongly desirable)
• Able to architect customize database for bigdata
• Good IT knowledge including Microsoft office
• Entrepreneurial attitude
• Confidence and enthusiasm
• Flexible and has team spirit
• Work independent and well perform under pressure

Personal

• Self-motivation and pro-active attitude
• Flexible and adaptable attitude to meet the needs of the role
• Excellent work ethic

Hours of work

• Full time

Salary

• Dependent on experience (negotiable)

Benefits

• Closely working with productive and action-orientated team
• Extensive experiences gain working with respective professional and research coach from profit and non-profit organizations

The closing date for application is 15 September 2019.