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Duty Station: Multiple
Successful applicants should:
Additionally, specific preferences include:
Qualification:
Advanced university degree in economics, development economics or related quantitative social sciences.
HOW CAN ECONOMISTS CONTRIBUTE TO UNDP'S MANDATE?
At UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), we are on a mission to end poverty, build democratic governance, rule of law, and inclusive institutions around the world. UNDP is the United Nations' global sustainable development organization working across 170 countries.
The UNDP Global Policy Network (GPN) draws on expertise globally to provide more effective responses to the complex development challenges countries face in achieving the SDGs and responding to crisis in an integrated and coherent manner. Anchored in the Crisis Bureau (CB) and the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), the GPN has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP's Strategic Plan, which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
To support UNDP's work to countries on implementing the SDGs, UNDP is updating its pool of experts to support economic analysis and modeling. The roster of experts will be positioned to provide a continued pool of expertise to countries focusing on supporting implementation of actions and delivering results on the ground.
Successful candidates will be invited to join UNDP's GPN ExpRes Roster under one or more of the five economists sub-profiles and may be considered for future relevant assignments with UNDP. Retention in the Roster of selected experts will be contingent on continuous delivery of satisfactory services.
The Experts Roster for Rapid Response (ExpRes) is a recruitment and deployment mechanism which maintains pre-vetted consultants on a roster and contracts them quickly for Country Office support. The primary purpose of this roster has been to deploy technical experts to UNDP Country Offices/regional teams/ HQ units on short notice. The ExpRes roster provides pre-selected and technically vetted consultants across 30 profiles and 198 sub-profiles to support the work of UNDP and other UNDP partner agencies.
SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED WORK
The consultant, when selected from the roster for an assignment, may take on the following general duties and responsibilities:
· Stocktaking of publicly available data and information (e.g., government policies, strategies and reports) centered around (but not limited to) assignment-specific themes.
· Author ToRs and agreements to acquire relevant data; and document and manage all data.
· Specify scope and technology (software and computing) requirements for analysis and document the code used for the analysis.
· Write different knowledge products (e.g., briefs) on a range of economic policy matters as background papers oriented toward UNDP country offices and national governments.
· Write detailed reports that document analytic work that capture context, methods, results, discussion, and policy recommendations.
They will be called upon to execute analysis in the following areas: (role specific)
1. Economist: computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling
· Build /Update Social Accounting Matrice (SAM) used to calibrate the country specific CGE model.
· Lead in the formulation of relevant scenarios to conduct simulations for policy analysis.
· Based on the formulated scenarios, specify, calibrate, and implement CGE model(s) to quantify economic impacts.
· Run sensitivity analysis regarding model parameters.
2. Economist: economic policy advice/analysis
· Conduct research and write policy analyses, including on fiscal and economic policy issues as well as on areas related to climate change, resilience, health, gender, poverty/inequality and energy, with a special focus on low- and middle- income countries.
· Develop analytical tools and processes to contribute to the diagnosis and monitoring of economic policy and evaluate their expected impact on development.
· Analyze the synergies, coherence, and trade-offs of diverse economic policy measures.
· Advise relevant personnel on the forthcoming priorities, anticipate policy challenges and opportunities.
3. Economist: macro econometrics and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) modeling
· Lead in the formulation of relevant scenarios to conduct simulations for policy analysis.
· Specify, calibrate, and execute DSGE models to quantify dynamics of sector-specific policy choices on the economy.
· Build forecasting models using times series (AR, SVAR, VAR).
4. Economist: microanalysis/behavioral economics
· Identify relevant data sources and compile the respective datasets.
· Analysis of data to quantify economic impacts.
· Identify and assess the most suitable methodology to perform specific measurements.
· Generating quantitative estimates of economic impacts on households and firms (e.g., broader social, poverty and environmental impacts). Build Microsimulations model and lead in the formulation of relevant scenarios to conduct simulations for policy analysis.
5. Economist: partial equilibrium analysis
· Gather data (supply and demand sides) to calibrate to calibrate the country specific model.
· Lead in the formulation of relevant scenarios to conduct simulations for policy analysis.
· Set up, calibrate PE tools to generate analysis on households, firms, and the environment.
· Run sensitivity analysis regarding model parameters.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:
At UNDP, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UNDP recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNDP, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UNDP's policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UNDP personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference checks.
Requirements and skills
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Working hours (%): 80-100%
80-100%Macro-area: Multiple
Level of experience: Senior Professional, more than 5 years
Area of work Definition: Economics
Type of organisation: Multilateral Organisations