Senior Specialist: Behavioural Economics

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa Praesignis (Pty) Ltd Full time

**Education and Experience**
- Relevant Masters degree in Mathematics, Behavioural Economics, Economic Psychology, Economics, and Computer Science, Quantitative Social Science, Decision science, Data Science or related field with a strong emphasis on sophisticated mathematical algorithm design, AI and Machine Learning, 10-12 years' experience in a behavioural economics environment of a large public or private organisation, of which 3 4 years at specialist level.

**Minimum Qualification & Experience Required**
- Relevant Bachelors Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Mathematics, Behavioural Economics, Economic Psychology, Economics, and Computer Science, Quantitative Social Science, Decision science, Data Science or related field AND 12 - 15 years experience in a behavioural economics environment of a commercial entity with a national footprint.

**Job Outputs**:
**Process**
- Use evaluative frameworks, behavioural experimentation methodologies, theory construction and model building skills to facilitate evidence
- based product and design decisions.
- Design, launch, and analyses experiments to uncover user needs & behaviour with a cross functional team consisting of user researchers, data scientists, product managers, designers, and engineers.
- Deliver fresh, business relevant insights that are brought to life through engaging storytelling in continuous dialogue, presentations, and workshops. Contribute actively to company-wide research practice and community.
- Lead and execute complex multi-stream research design projects for products and experiences independently and as part of a team.
- Collect, analyse, and synthesize responses through surveys, benchmark studies, and online experiments.
- Provide additional perspective on qualitative findings in lab studies, field visits, and ethnography.
- Lead in the development of a Behavioural Economics Laboratory.
- Embedding Behavioural Economic principles in various SARS operations.
- Monitor and evaluate the impact of interventions to compliance and revenue collection.
- Develop behavioural, systems and process models.
- Maximise the use of technology, Al and Machine learning for impactful solutions.
- Review of communication messages to identify and amend to include Behavioural Economic principles.
- Influence/drive implementation of behavioural economic recommendations
- Develop units governance documents.
- Develop and implement the units short
- and long-term strategic plan.
- Development of Capacity and resources planning.
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures, policies, and practices.
- Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
- Develop multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks, supporting tactical development and excellence.
- Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
- Influence and communicate across business areas impacted by practice area to minimise resistance and ensure on-boarding of new thinking.
- Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy development and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
- Collaborate with stakeholders in the field at national and international level.
- Disseminate behavioural change insights and outcome to promote knowledge sharing within the organisation, locally and internationally.

**Governance**
- Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area.

**People**
- Engagement with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective management of interdependencies.
- Network and build relationships to enable the effective Resolution of a difficult conflict.
- Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of the job.
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice, and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.

**Finance**
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

**Client**
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
- Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
- Develop & ensure implementafion of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.

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