Junior Policy Analyst

The Junior Policy Analyst will contribute to the OECD Jobs and Income Division's work on monitoring and benchmarking tax-benefit systems and assessing the impact of tax-benefit reforms on disposable income and work incentives. The role involves policy analysis, policy modelling, and dissemination activities related to income support, redistribution, and work incentives.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to JAI’s analytical work on income support, redistribution and work incentives.
• Monitor and assess recent changes in the national tax-benefit systems.
• Support member countries in designing tax and benefit reforms that improve redistribution and employment outcomes.
• Review and analyse inputs from national governments on recent tax and benefit reforms and integrate relevant information into the reports of the OECD Descriptions of Tax and Benefit Systems series.
• Contribute to updating and validating the OECD Tax-Benefit model for selected countries.
• Check the accuracy of the calculations and carefully validate results with national experts.
• Use the OECD tax-Benefit model to assess tax and benefit reforms that are under discussion or design at a national level, or that have been recommended by the OECD.
• Work alongside other team members to draft OECD reports and policy briefs in the area of income support, redistribution, and work incentives.
• Contribute to the dissemination of OECD tax-benefit indicators and analytical outputs.
• Support the maintenance and development of project webpages and the TaxBEN data warehouse.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree in economics, social science, law and economics, statistics, or another relevant field of study, with a strong foundation in quantitative analysis.
• Holding a PhD would be an advantage.
• At least two years of professional experience in analysing tax-benefit systems and redistributive policies in the last three years.
• At least two years of extensive hands-on experience in tax-benefit modelling in the last three years.
• Recent hands-on experience in simulating and assessing tax-benefit reforms using the European Commission’s tax-benefit microsimulation model, EUROMOD, would be a strong advantage.
• Proven experience in processing, managing and analysing large amount of individual-level data, including income and labour force surveys.
• Proven ability to write and illustrate concepts clearly and comprehensively, adapting style and vocabulary as necessary for different audiences.
• Experience with the use of AI tools would be an advantage.
• Ability to organise and prioritise tasks.
• Ability to improve workflows and streamline processes.
• Solid knowledge of key programming structures and concepts.
• Excellent command of STATA or similar programming language, such as R or Python, for data management, data processing and econometric analysis.
• Excellent command of Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Fluency in one of the two OECD official languages (English and French) and knowledge of the other, with a commitment to reach a good working level.
• Knowledge of other member country languages would be an asset.

Skills

• Quantitative Analysis
• Tax-benefit Systems Analysis
• Redistributive Policy Analysis
• Tax-benefit Modelling
• EUROMOD Simulation
• Data Management
• Income Survey Analysis
• Labour Force Survey Analysis
• Policy Analysis
• Econometric Analysis
• STATA Programming
• R Programming
• Python Programming
• MS Excel
• AI Tools Usage
• Workflow Improvement
• Process Streamlining

Languages

English, French