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Job Description:

• Supports economic appraisal, including cost-benefit analysis, of market shaping proposals.
• Supports analysis of policy challenges such as climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and pandemic preparedness.
• Reviews and maps academic and policy literatures.
• Identifies promising candidate problems to tackle with market shaping instruments through desk research.
• Estimates the size of relevant markets, the potential benefits of new innovations and the potential size (cost) of the market shaping instruments.
• Understands the market structure of key sectors.
• Supports investigation of technologies such as cooling, improved crop varieties, carbon removal, vaccines.
• Communicates with market shaping proposal advocates, innovators, and funders.
• Maintains technical and administrative support for a research project.
• Analyzes and maintains data and/or specimens. Conducts literature reviews. Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts and other documents.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications
 

Education:

• Bachelorâ™s degree in economics, mathematics, statistics, public policy, or related discipline.

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience.

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Project management skills; plan tasks for teams, monitor progress, make corrections to plans.
• Data and spreadsheet skills (e.g. building models for economic and financial appraisal).

Preferred Competencies

• Team player with good problem-solving and time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills as well as written and oral communication skills.
• Work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Excellent analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Stay organized on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Curiosity and interest in climate change, biosecurity, including pandemic preparedness.
• Careful understanding of economic incentives and an ability to creatively apply economic principles.
• Comfort with uncertainty and willingness to engage in back-of-the-envelope (or Fermi) economic calculations and estimates.

Working Conditions

• Perform tasks mostly indoors in an office setting.
• Work independently for periods of eight (8) hours or more.
• Some travel to low and middle income countries.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)
• Three Professional References Contact Information (required)

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