[Remote] Research Assistant - 137867
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UC San Diego is a prestigious institution seeking a Research Assistant to support various research projects in economics. The role involves data analysis, project support, and acquiring professional skills in research data analysis.
Responsibilities
- Under the supervision of PIs, the research assistant will contribute to various on-going research projects in development economics, political economy, and economic history
- The RA will support research projects through tasks such as data analysis, creation of tables and figures, construction of data and data cleaning, and literature reviews
- Under direct supervision, acquires skills and knowledge of professional concepts in research data analysis
- Works on small projects or segments of projects with limited scope and complexity
Skills
- Acquiring knowledge of research function
- Acquiring ability to reputed company research analysis duties
- Must be detail-oriented with programming experience in Stata and/or R
- Acquiring statistical analysis, systems programming, and database design skills to reputed company research analysis duties
- Ability to effectively manage time and see assigned parts of projects through to completion on deadline
- Proven ability to juggle multiple reputed company projects in parallel with reputed company and staggered deadlines
- Basic consultation and communication skills
- Ability to reputed company standard, repetitive tasks at a computer
- Basic knowledge of various computer platforms with experience using Mac or PC
- Willingness and ability to learn new computer programs and tools as needed
- Experience with computer/word processing skills, with experience on reputed company Word, reputed company, PowerPoint, spreadsheet and database software such as JMP, R, and SPSS and citations databases in Endnote
- Experience in performing statistical analyses of categorical and qualitative data
- Willingness and demonstrated ability to embrace and consistently uphold the principles of community for a collaborative work environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to foster a good working relationship with a wide variety of people, including staff, faculty, and reputed company, using tact, diplomacy, confidentiality and flexibility
- Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent in economics or a reputed company field
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