Would you like to help DFID rise to the challenge of reducing world poverty?
To increase our capacity to provide advice, technical assistance and deliver programmes around the developing world DFID is recruiting early careereconomists, both to fill immediate positions and to create a database that we can call upon to fill permanent and fixed term positions.
We are currently looking for Assistant Economists.
If successful you will either be offered a position immediately or will remain on our database for 12 months, during which time vacancies may arise in our UK headquarters in London and East Kilbride (near Glasgow) or in our overseas offices. Assistant Economists work in teams spending aid in specific countries, commissioning cutting edge research and defining national and international policy, in regional departments, in teams who work with International Financial Institutions and in the corporate centre of DFID. As an Assistant Economist your first post is likely to be in the UK. Many of DFID’s overseas postings are in post-conflict and conflict affected countries and, if offered a permanent position, you will be required to visit and work in such countries during your first few years of employment with DFID. Overseas postings for Assistant Economists are usually for periods of 1 or 2 years. If you are posted overseas you will be provided with accommodation and a travel package and may be entitled to tax free cost of living and hardship allowances in addition to your salary.
DFID is an equal opportunities employer and selection is on merit.
Candidates must be UK nationals, nationals of a member state of the European Economic Area (EEA), Swiss or Turkish Nationals or Commonwealth citizens with an indefinite right to remain in the UK without employment restrictions.
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Closing date for applications: 3 October 2016