Responsibilities:
Research Assistance (60%)
- Compiles, reads, and provides analytical reviews and summaries of diverse existing literatures from multiple fields of science pertinent to projects.
- Synthesizes literature in the form of background papers, analytical reviews, or outlines for the benefit of CSDP and external partners.
- In collaboration with senior research staff, drafts material for incorporation into working papers and project publications, particularly literature reviews but may also be called upon to write up results or methodology.
- Contributes to parameterization of models by drawing on established literature to quantify relationships between and among variables.
- Maintains electronic bibliography files, organizes references for manuscripts/websites/proposals, and locates relevant documents from electronic sources.
Visualization and Reports (20%)
- Converts agent-based model outputs to viewable form for analyses and presentations.
- Assists in drafting written reports and online profiles for funders and external research partners describing model design, implementation, and results.
- Works with the scholar to create PowerPoint presentations for use in summarizing research findings to outside audiences.
- Assists in preparation and revision of manuscripts and proposals.
- 10% Programming Simulation and Statistical Assistance.
- Some data analysis responsibilities – analyzing STATA output or using STATA or Excel to create graphics.
- Interfaces with external research partners to obtain, process, and convert outside data into forms suitable for integration into agent-based models.
Administrative Support (10%)
- Assists scholar with miscellaneous administrative tasks.
- Assists scholar with planning Brookings events to present research.
- Write and edit summaries to be posted on Center and scholar webpages.
Qualifications:
Education/Experience Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in economics, mathematics/statistics, or a related quantitative field required. Master’s degree in a related field a plus. One-year job experience in scientific research in social science or public health preferred but not required. Competence to undertake research assignments with little supervision.
Knowledge/Skills Requirements
Strong writing and research skills, ability to work with empirical data and statistics, ability to condense academic articles on a wide variety of topics. Experience or familiarity with agent-based computational modeling preferred but not required.
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