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The Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Vocational Education Research
Research Assistant, Economics of Education and Skills
Salary from £29,296 to £34,917 pa inclusive
This is a full time fixed term appointment for 2 years
You will assist senior staff by preparing, matching and carrying out initial analysis of data on specific research questions, preparing draft reports, summaries of findings and literature surveys. Opportunity will be provided for co-authorship of scientific papers.
Candidates should have a first or upper second class (or international equivalent) undergraduate degree in Economics or other quantitative discipline; and a Masters in Economics or other quantitative social science discipline (but must have very good knowledge of economics). Standard of Masters should qualify entry to PhD programme.
Candidates should also have advanced experience of using Stata for analysing large scale micro data; a demonstrated knowledge of and interest in economics of education and skills and current policy issues; excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to convey technical material in non-technical terms for policy and other non- academic stakeholders; and experience of large scale data driven projects. It is desirable you have an interest and knowledge of policy evaluation
The post will commence as soon as possible.
The CEP offers an outstanding environment in which to carry out research. Please visit http://cep.lse.ac.uk/ for further information about the Centre and http://cver.lse.ac.uk about the Centre for Vocational Education Research.
We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities.
You should apply with a CV, cover letter as well as one of your research papers or a piece of original writing that is relevant to this post.
For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.
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The closing date for receipt of applications is 11th November 2018 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.