OpRec Junior Quantitative Researcher RISE

Employment Opportunities

---

Position	Junior Quantitative Researcher – RISE Programme in Indonesia
Terms of Employment	2-year fixed-term contract with possibility of extension
Work Location	Jakarta, with some travel to project sites as required
Reporting to	Quantitative Research Coordinator – RISE Programme in Indonesia

RISE Programme in Indonesia (RISE) is an education research program led by the SMERU Research Institute in partnership with the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) and the Mathematica Policy Research (Mathematica). The five-year programme (2017–2022) aims to identify issues facing Indonesia’s education system and to encourage changes in components of the education system, which is a necessity for improving learning outcomes. RISE specifically monitors the implementation of teacher reform in decentralised Indonesia and reviews how far the teacher reform can improve learning outcomes. In executing its research agenda, RISE partners with the Ministry of Education and Culture; Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education; and a number of district governments.

Responsibilities:

• Collect primary data and be involved in fieldwork;
• Collect secondary data and related information;
• Conduct data entry;
• Assist in organizing and managing data;
• Carry out data analyses;
• Assist in the writing of research reports and other types of publications, including policy briefs, journal articles, and conference papers, based on the data analysis results and interpretation;
• Attend seminars, workshops, meetings, and training courses; and
• Conduct other tasks as required.

Required qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree (S1) in economics, agriculture economics, statistics, mathematics, or a relevant social science discipline;
• A strong interest in conducting quantitative socioeconomic research, particularly on education issues;
• Some experience in data collection and field survey would be an advantage;
• Familiarity in using STATA for socioeconomic research;
• Familiarity in managing and using large data sets, especially Indonesian national data sets;
• Good communication and interview skills;
• Ability to write reports;
• Ability to coordinate and work in a team;
• Ability to multitask and work under tight deadlines with minimal supervision; and
• Working fluency in both written and spoken English.

Qualified and interested applicant should send an application package containing a cover letter addressing the qualifications stated above, detailed CV, academic transcript(s) or list of grades, and the names and contact details of three people who can provide references, no later than 15 September 2018.

Send your application by email and put “RISE Junior Quantitative Researcher” as the subject of the email with the supporting documents merged in one PDF document as an attachment of no more than 2 MB. Application should be sent to jobapplication@smeru.or.id.

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by SMERU no later than 1 October 2018 and will be invited to a written test in early to mid-October 2018. Applicants who pass the written test will be invited for an interview. 

Outside the process outlined above, no communication by any means regarding this recruitment will be received.