Research Assistant / Technician 3

Workers – Union

Job Class
CUPE 116

Job Profile
CUPE 116 Salaried – Analysis Assistant /Technician 3

Job Title
Analysis Assistant / Technician 3

Division
Analysis Assist jobsincanada.one Nunn jobsincanada.one Vancouver Faculty of Economics

Compensation Vary
$4,618.00 – $5,036.00 CAD Month-to-month

Posting Finish Date
February 17, 2024

Notice: Purposes will likely be accepted till 11:59 PM on the day previous to the Posting Finish Date above.

Job Finish Date

Aug 1, 2024

At UBC, we imagine that attracting and sustaining a various workforce is vital to the profitable pursuit of excellence in analysis, innovation, and studying for all school, employees and college students. Our dedication to employment fairness helps obtain inclusion and equity, brings wealthy range to UBC as a office, and creates the required situations for a rewarding profession. 

Job Abstract

The Vancouver Faculty of Economics (VSE) and collaborative universities, makes use of state-of-the-art data-intensive analysis. The VSE encourages collaboration with different world-leading researchers and establishments by means of workshops, exchanges and visits. The Vancouver Faculty of Economics is Canada’s top-ranked division and among the many main economics departments on this planet.
The analysis assistants will help the analysis initiatives of main analysis school members on the Vancouver Faculty of Economics.

The areas of inquiry are in political economic system, financial growth, and financial historical past. There’s a specific give attention to quantiative analyses of the traits of Indigenous societies inside Africa. The perfect candidate may have previous expertise working each quantitatively and qualitatively with elements of Indigenous societies and financial growth to undertake empirical analyses.

The work entails information digitization, mapping and visualization (utilizing Arc GIS), database administration, and evaluation of information (utilizing R and STATA), which includes writing code and understanding and decoding the output. Previous data of OLS, Logit, and IV estimators is required in addition to an understanding of causal inference and strategies to estimate normal errors; specifically clustering, randomization inferences and Conley normal errors.

Additionally required will likely be writing, each of journal articles and grants functions. Candidates should have intensive data of LaTeX and the perfect candidate may have previous expertise in educational writing – e.g., as an educational editor or related place.

Organizational Standing
The job entails shut collaboration with school members from the VSE, College of San Diego, Harvard College, and MIT throughout the full course of from information digitization to database administration to mapping and visualization to mannequin estimation to the writing of estimation outcomes. The profitable candidate will likely be concerned in all elements of analysis and may have previous expertise working in educational groups comprised of economists.
Work Carried out

• Oversees information assortment, digitization, manipulation, information storage, and analyses. This have to be finished in R and STATA.

• Digitization requires some understanding of Indigenous qualitative and quantitative sources, in addition to ethnographic methods.

• Duties embrace studying ethnographies and anthropological accounts of pre-colonial societies, constructing information units from these qualitative accounts, creating textual content parsing instruments to extract details about particular person ethnic teams from long-form texts, and utilizing geographic software program (Arc GIS) to map and visualize information.

• Works with high-profile, senior-level school within the design and execution of empirical exams. Helps the venture/research by surveying literature and utilizing empirical instruments to work with information. Should be fluent in econometrics.

• Writes studies and assists with writing grant functions. Should have an in depth working data of LaTeX.

• Oversees the day-to-day venture administration. Should have a selected document of having the ability to work in a staff of educational economists.

• Oversees information reporting and prepares data for presentation and publication. Should have expertise utilizing LaTeX and Beamer.

• Carries out another associated duties as required in step with the {qualifications} and necessities of positions on this classification.

Consequence of Error/Judgement
This can be a analysis assistant place inside a analysis venture involving quite a lot of tasks and complicated analysis strategies. The work requires appreciable judgement within the administration of analysis priorities, information, functions, schedules, and process delegation. The perfect candidate may have previous expertise working in such environments.
Confidentiality: Workers of the College of British Columbia at all times work underneath strict confidentiality due to the character of the info holdings. Any breach in information safety would place the way forward for the VSE, and its many packages of analysis, in danger.
Accuracy and Accountability: Accuracy is crucial since errors might have implications for printed studies, grant funding, information entry, and public relations. The Analysis Assistant is accountable for checking the reliability and accuracy of labor finished and reporting challenges and threats on to her/his supervisor.
Supervision Obtained

The profitable candidate will work underneath the route of the Dr. Nathan Nunn (Vancouver Faculty of Economics, Univ, of British Columbia) and work carefully with Dr. Jacob Moscona (Dept of Economics, Harvard/MIT), Dr. Awa Ambra Seck (Harvard Enterprise Faculty), and Dr. Sara Lowes (Dept of Economics, UC San Diego).
Supervision Given
Might coordinate and set up duties of analysis assistants collaborating within the analysis staff.
Minimal {Qualifications}
Completion of a related technical program or a college diploma in a related self-discipline and a minimal three years of associated expertise or an equal mixture of training and expertise.
– Willingness to respect various views, together with views in battle with one’s personal

– Demonstrates a dedication to enhancing one’s personal consciousness, data, and expertise associated to fairness, range, and inclusion

Most well-liked {Qualifications}

• Undergraduate diploma in Economics. People with different instructional backgrounds are welcome to use if they’ve the requisite expertise and expertise.

• a robust quantitative and statistical background in economics;

• be snug studying substantial quantities of textual content, have previous expertise associated to quantitative analysis involving Indigenous cultures (ideally inside Africa), have intensive coaching in econometrics.

• Familiarity with Arc GIS, LaTeX, STATA, and R is required.

• A confirmed capacity to work inside an educational staff with a typical aim of manufacturing educational analysis;

• robust written and verbal communication expertise; and

• a long-term curiosity in pursuing analysis in economics.