Position: Research Associate (Quantitative)

Organization: Young Lives India

Location: Delhi

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Your CV must be accompanied with:

• Cover letter justifying suitability for the position – role fitment based on present & past work experience along with contact details of three professional references.
• Current/last drawn compensation (salary slips of last three months) & expected compensation.
• Applications should contain position name in the subject line

Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute to Young Lives research, analysis and writing proposals.
• Carry out literature review.
• Develop survey tools and conduct data analysis for tool validation.
• Prepare questionnaires and survey manuals.
• Set up data quality checks and quality assurance for quantitative data collection.
• Write summary reports and maintain clear documentation of survey process
• Conduct analysis of data using appropriate econometric and statistical models and techniques to address specific research questions. 
• Communicate regularly with field research team.
• Write summary and analytical reports/ working and journal papers, policy briefs etc

Requirements for the role

• Minimum three to five years of work experience in quantitative research.
• Sound knowledge of statistics, econometrics and research methodology.
• Excellent analytical and statistical skills, including experience of using Stata and analysing large data sets such as NFHS, NSSO, etc.
• Experience in developing and conducting surveys will be essential.
• High level writing and communication skills and ability to produce reports and other research outputs in English. 
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills and preferably experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Good personal organisational skills with experience of managing a varied and heavy workload

Education Requirements

A Masters/ M. Phil/ Ph.D. from a reputed institution in a quantitative social science discipline (education/economics/statistics/ demography/ development studies) with minimum three to five years of relevant work experience involving data analysis using STATA as well as report writing