Duties
Project Management
– Support the design and implementation of assessments and other data-driven products related to the socio-economic welfare of refugees, forcibly displaced persons and host communities.
– Facilitate and support collaboration with partners and activities in the collection of comparable socio-economic (poverty) data on forcibly displaced.
– Support data collection activities, as appropriate. This may take place at all stages of data collection (preparation, survey design, sampling, onsite data collection oversight and supervision and quality assurance, data analysis and report writing).
– Support data analysis using econometric programs (R, Stata).

Data Collection and Analysis
– Consolidate raw primary and secondary datasets into final datasets to be used for analysis, as needed. This will involve creating and merging various sources of data and may require programming matching algorithms, linking up with field staff for additional information, and performing manual matching.
– Provide secondary data analysis as appropriate.
– Clean datasets and support creation of necessary indicators.
– For any field survey, assist in programming the instrument and support development of protocols to ensure high quality data.
– Prepare and document relevant datasets for archiving on the UNHCR Microdata Library.
– Support the preparation of research papers including formatting and creating tables, graphs, and related analysis.
– Engage with country operation, partners and government, as appropriate, in the design and implementation of data collection and research projects.

Coordination
– Facilitate good communication and coordination among members of the country team, Governments, researchers and partners, serving as a link between these parties.
– Support drafting and writing of presentations, analytical reports, research and policy briefs.
– Identify research opportunities and contribute to proposals for research partnerships and funding.
– Support preparations of reports on achievements in data collection and analysis.

– Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).

– Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications
Education & Professional Work Experience
Years of Experience / Degree Level
For P2/NOB – 3 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 1 year relevant experience with Doctorate degree