Research Associate

1 day ago

Pretoria, South Africa United Nations University Full time

**Job description**:
**About UN University (UNU)**:
The United Nations University (UNU) is an international community of scholars engaged in policy-oriented research, capacity development and dissemination of knowledge, furthering the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. UNU’s mission is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations and its Member States.

For the past four decades, United Nations University (UNU) has been a go-to think tank for impartial research on human survival, conflict prevention, sustainable development and welfare. With more than 400 researchers in 12 countries, UNU’s work spans the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, generating policy-relevant knowledge to effect positive global change. UNU maintains more than 200 collaborations with UN agencies and leading universities and research institutions across the globe.

**United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)**:
UNU-WIDER is one of 14 research and training Institutes that comprise the think tanks in the UNU system.

UNU-WIDER is implementing a large research, capacity development, and policy engagement programme in South Africa, called Southern African - Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) in close collaboration with the National Treasury of South Africa. Building on the successful first phase of this programme, phase II of SA-TIED will continue to bring together world class researchers with policymakers to combat socio-economic challenges in South Africa but also in the broader southern African region. A big focus of SA‐TIED relates to its engagements with the policy‐making community as a partner. A key aspect of the programme is to generate robust empirical evidence and use it as a basis to encourage networking and discussion amongst people involved in policy processes across the participating organisations and civil society to bridge the gap between research and policy‐making. The programme played an important part in making anonymised administrative tax data available for research purposes at a Secure Data Facility at the National Treasury (NT-SDF) and is a key asset in the programme. The availability of administrative tax data for research has enabled many new avenues of research and has provided new perspectives on the South African economy and has dramatically improved the quality and breadth of evidence used to inform policy.

**Responsibilities**:
Based at the premises of the National Treasury of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa, the Research Associate conducts research on the tax data, writes academic articles, writes manuals on the tax data, facilitates researchers’ use of the tax data, assists with capacity development and oversees the lab operations at the NT-SDF.

The Research Associate’s responsibilities include the following:
**1. **Conduct and facilitate research on the data at the National Treasury - Secure Data Facility**
- Conduct research in support of the work streams using the tax data under the SA-TIED programme
- Lead the collaboration to produce technical notes related to data used under the programme
- Support in evaluating research proposals and provide feedback to researchers using the tax data
- Produce research briefs, policy briefs, blogs, and background notes.
- Ensure consistent use of the datasets within the programme.
- Assist researchers in accessing the tax data.
- Participate in data projects that involve the comparison of data from tax records with data from other sources.
- Assist with obtaining new datasets for the NT-SDF under the guidance of the work stream leads

**2. **Facilitate capacity development
- Assist in identifying appropriate capacity development activities for the National Treasury, and other SA-TIED partners
- Liaise with providers to deliver capacity development activities
- Arrange capacity development activities in-person and online in collaboration with team based in Pretoria

**3. **Overseeing the lab operations of the NT-SDF**
- Work with the team based in Pretoria to ensure the NT-SDF is in good working condition
- Ensure safe use of the tax data
- Support the team to prepare the data request from SARS
- Supervise Data Scientists based at SARS

**4. **Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor**

**Key performance indicators**:

- Conduct quality research
- Support researchers access to the NT-SDF
- Oversee and manage a well-run secure data facility

**Competencies**:
**Values**:

- ** Integrity** — act ethically, demonstrating the standards of conduct of the United Nations and taking prompt action in case of witnessing unprofessional or unethical behaviour, or any other breach of UN standards
- ** Humility —** demonstrate self-awareness and willingness to learn from others
- ** Humanity** — act according to the purposes of the United Nations: peace, dignit

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