E T Consultant - Research Analyst

The E T Consultant - Research Analyst supports the World Bank's Development Impact Department's engagement with the Partnership for Economic Inclusion and the European Commission. The role involves coordinating impact evaluation research projects, data management, and capacity building to advance evidence-based policy making within EU Cohesion Policy programs and economic inclusion initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and contribute to DECDI programmatic engagements on cohesion policy effectiveness with the European Commission and on the Partnership for Economic Inclusion’s Impact Collaborative.
• Liaise closely with country research teams on measurement, data quality and data analysis.
• Contribute to the implementation of trial-and-adopt impact evaluation research projects and related data analysis.
• Participate in official missions and deliver training and capacity building of clients on impact evaluation and DECDI-supported projects.
• Support delivery of the Programmatic ASA activity on trial-and-adopt impact evaluations and data ecosystems pilots to enhance EU Cohesion Policy effectiveness.
• Serve as a Senior Research Assistant and Data Manager for the PEI Impact Collaborative by leading coordination, harmonization, and documentation of survey, costing, and implementation data across six impact evaluations.
• Ensure effective communication and coordination between DECDI team, partner researchers, World Bank policy teams, European Commission counterparts, the Partnership for Economic Inclusion, and country representatives.
• Draft and provide inputs for dissemination of DECDI’s outputs to various internal and external audiences including briefs, blogs, presentations, policy reports, and press releases.
• Coordinate supervision of junior staff and short-term consultants supporting the portfolio, and mentor them on interaction with government, data collection, monitoring of implementation, preparation of detailed work plans, and data analysis.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in economics, public policy, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience in impact evaluation, empirical research including experiments and quasi-experiments, data management, and development policy and program design.
• Strong track record of designing and executing research projects and related data analysis in the context of complex impact evaluations.
• Substantial experience related to impact evaluation research and econometrics, data management and coordination.
• Solid experience in project management or coordination, as well as on survey collection preparation and supervision in multi-country studies.
• Strong technical skills in design and analysis of prospective impact evaluation and micro-econometrics.
• Ability to explain and communicate technical programming methodologies in an organized and systematic way.
• Ability to work across teams and countries to produce data with consistent indicators, transparent workflows, and reproducible analysis.
• Ability to contribute to strategy, analysis, and policy formulation and to support clients in these areas.
• Commitment to teamwork, knowledge-sharing, and working across sectoral and organizational boundaries.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and supervising consultants.
• Ability to work flexibly, creatively, and to multitask as the need arises.
• High degree of self-motivation, positive attitude, commitment, and drive.
• Willingness and ability to travel within EU member states and Africa region specifically, and to other regions if and when needed.
• Advanced proficiency with Stata and/or R is preferred.
• Proficiency with Python and geospatial tools is an advantage.
• Experience in survey design and implementation in different countries.
• Experience analyzing complex surveys in developing countries.
• Experience harmonizing large, complex datasets and conducting pooled analyses.
• Knowledge of additional languages (French desired).

Skills

• Impact Evaluation
• Empirical Research
• Data Management
• Development Policy Design
• Project Management
• Survey Design
• Survey Implementation
• Micro-econometrics
• Research Program Design
• Data Analysis
• Programming Methodologies
• STATA
• Python
• Geospatial tools development
• Multi-country Study Coordination
• Pooled Data Analysis
• Mentoring Consultants
• Policy Formulation Support

Languages

English, French