Overview
Coordinate and support development impact initiatives, prepare knowledge products, and assist in organizing capacity building programs and technical assistance projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate timely Development Impact (DI) implementation with relevant departments and units.
- Support DI assessments, including sector diagnostics, theory of change, use of evidence, outcome M&E plan, and evaluations.
- Support the development and updating of DI-relevant guidelines and business processes.
- Contribute to knowledge products relevant to development impact.
- Support the preparation of annual reports on ADB operation soundness in terms of development impact.
- Support briefings to Management and the Board on studies and related issues.
- Review draft loan, grant and other project documents and project completion reports.
- Assist in organizing conferences, seminars and training events.
- Assist in providing ad hoc technical advice on data analysis.
- Support preparation of Technical Assistance (TA) concepts and TA papers.
- Coordinate TA paper review and approval.
- Undertake daily TA implementation, including monitoring fund utilization and outputs, and administering consulting contracts.
- Support TA activities such as data acquisition, organizing conferences and workshops, and output publication.
- Identify, acquire, and manage datasets needed for research projects.
- Clean and process datasets with technical documentation and metadata.
- Conduct statistical and econometric analysis of datasets.
- Support capacity building work and coordinate dissemination events.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of work experience in related fields, with at least 3 years in development impact related assessments and research, such as theory of change, use of evidence, and M&E for development projects.
- Strong knowledge of relevant data sources including countries' census and national household survey data, labor force survey, enterprise surveys, and online databases of international organizations.
- Experience in managing and analyzing data using advanced econometric/statistical tools such as STATA.
- Familiarity with operations and procedures of multilateral financial institutions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in economics or related fields.
- Master's degree will be a distinct advantage.
