The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks to hire a consultant/collaborator for an on-going project in Ethiopia.

This project aims to assess households’ welfare and the impact of recent conflicts on households’ welfare and wellbeing. We aim to assess rural households’ sense of their relative poverty standing by benchmarking self-reported relative poverty perceptions against absolute and conventional measures of poverty. This combines conventional measures of poverty with self-reported, peer-ranking and community-based ranking.

For this purpose, IFPRI collected a large survey data recently. The successful candidate will actively contribute to the analysis of these data and writing of research paper(s) based on these data.

The expected total duration of the assigned workload will be 60 working days, to be conducted over a 6-month period August 15, 2024-December 31, 2024, subject to renewal.

Essential Duties:

– Conduct a literature review on the above themes and topics

– Data cleaning and analysis based on already collected data.

– Present preliminary results to IFPRI staff and others

– Analyze data using advanced analytical methods.

– Draft research paper

– Revise paper and sections of a paper based on feedback from IFPRI staff

Required qualifications and experience:

– M.Sc.

degree or its equivalent in Economics, Agricultural Economics, Statistics or closely related fields.

– A minimum of 3 years work experience in academia, research institution, private sector or a development-oriented organization

– Excellent knowledge of microeconomic theory

– Experience in impact evaluation studies

– Excellent knowledge in STATA

– Demonstrated fluency in written and spoken English

– Familiarity with the literature on measurement of poverty, conflict and social protection literature

– Experience in Ethiopia and familiarity with Ethiopia’s agri-food system

Main deliverables: The candidate will work on delivering the following outputs, with feedback and approval from Project Manager.

● Cleaned data and do-files

o Thoroughly cleaned and documented do-files

o Cleaning and merging household data with administrative data

o Documentation of data cleaning and analysis

● Draft paper and sections of paper

o Draft paper related to the above research questions

● Final working paper

o Refine paper based on feedback and discussion with IFPRI staff

Required documents for application:

· Most recent CV

· Cover letter stating proposed daily rate (to be supported by current contract)