UNICEF’s Office of Research (OoR) is currently seeking applications for an African researcher to engage in joint research with staff under the auspices of the Transfer Project.
The Transfer Project is a multicountry research initiative on the impacts of cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa; Transfer Project .
The visiting fellow will work with OoR staff on a joint research project using data from impact evaluations from one of the following countries: Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Lesotho.
We seek a junior researcher, either an advanced PhD student at the dissertation stage, or an early career academic (PhD earned within last 5 years) in economics, agricultural economics or public policy.
The researcher will work on one research paper together with OoR staff and, where appropriate, the country evaluation team.
The researcher will visit OoR in Florence, Italy for 2-3 weeks to identify the paper topic, timeline and work plan, and to build the analysis data sets.
The researcher will then return to his/her home base and continue the collaboration long-distance.
The final paper will be published in the OoR Working Paper Series and be submitted to an academic journal.
The paper can serve as a dissertation chapter if agreed upon beforehand and if co-authorship is acceptable.
The incumbent must have strong microeconomic and quantitative analysis skills, be conversant in modern impact evaluation techniques, and be fluent in STATA.
While substantive field is open, we seek applicants whose interests lie in topics covered by the evaluation data that we have available—survey instruments can be found at the Transfer Project website under country pages.
The OoR will pay for round-trip economy class travel to Florence and per diem to cover room and board, and will provide an honorarium of $2500.
This call is open to citizens of African countries only.
Please send a writing sample, CV and detailed cover letter indicating how you qualify for the Fellowship, your experience in quantitative analysis of household survey data, and your likely area of interest, to:florencerecruitment@unicef.org with ‘Transfer Project Africa Fellowship’ in the subject line.
For more information please contact
Dr. Tia Palermo (tmpalermo@unicef.org),
Dr. Sudhanshu Handa (shanda@unicef.org) or
Dr. Witness Simbanegavi (witness.simbanegavi@aerc.org).
Closing date is 1st July 2015.
