Job Posting: Junior Economist, Global Financial Integrity, Washington DC

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Organization:

Global Financial Integrity

Location:

United States (Washington, D.C., DC)

Website:

www.gfip.org

Contact Information:

Sarah Bracht

Phone:

202.293.0740

Email:

sbracht@gfip.org

Description:

Summary of Duties

• Work with the Lead Economist to extract macroeconomic data from IMF, OECD, and World Bank databases and carry out calculations of illicit flows and indicators
• Maintain a database on illicit financial flows by country and run updates of these estimates as necessary
• Provide research assistance to Lead Economist with academic papers on illicit financial flows and other topics in international trade and finance
• Format and prepare GFI studies for publication in refereed economic journals.

Specific Duties include:

• Compiling statistics from online databases including the IMF, OECD, and World Bank
• Manipulation of data in Excel using automatically updating formulas and pivot tables
• Creating publication quality charts and tables
• Drafting papers or sections of papers
• Use E-Views to perform regression analysis and other statistical testing of hypotheses
• Some interaction with the communications team will be required
• Prepare data on GFI's Economic research for outside briefings
• Prepare economic estimates and provide briefs for GFI's Director to prepare for meetings and/or press interviews briefing
• Prepare power point presentations related to conferences organized by GFI or other institutions.
• Acquire, train, and mentor Economics interns (generally current or recent undergraduate and graduate students) on a semester basis.
• Copy edit all economic research reports and editorials written by Lead Economist.

Qualification:

• Intellectual curiosity; willingness to take initiative, create projects, and work independently, but also able to follow specific directions.
• Excellent communications skills and an ability to explain methodologies and findings to non-economists. Ability to work well with several departments
• Strong or expert skills in Excel and E-Views econometric package is required
• Close attention to detail
• Strong abilities in writing and editing; candidates will be asked to submit evidence of substantial written work
• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Economics with substantial coursework and interest in macroeconomics or international economics.

Candidates are asked to email a resume and cover letter to sbracht@gfip.org with “Junior Economist Position” in the subject line by close of business April 29, 2011. Only short-listed candidates will be interviewed at GFI's office in Washington DC; candidates will not be reimbursed for travel-related expenses to Washington DC for the interview. This is a full time position (40 hours per week).