Behavioural Economics Graduate

**Job Req**
- 137024- Closing Date- 03 January 2025- Period- One-year fixed-term contract- Job Title- Behavioural Economics Graduate Internship Program- Cluster- RBB- Business Unit- Insights & Advisory - Behavioural Economics- Location- Province: Gauteng
Town: Johannesburg- Talent Acquisition Specialist- Poppy Mlotshwa**Job Purpose**- This opportunity places you at the core of our strategic business objectives, enabling you to conduct in-depth research and provide beneficial insights to help shape our products and services. As part of this program, you form part of a team of trusted advisor, offering high-quality data and analysis that align seamlessly with our organisational vision, enhancing our client insights and fortifying our competitive edge.- With a focus on qualitative and quantitative research and experiments, you will delve into complex analysis, synthesising your findings into actionable recommendations to facilitate strategic, data-driven business decisions. This pivotal role will see you collaborating with diverse stakeholders, providing valuable insights and analyses in service of delivering a leading customer experience.-
**Responsibilities**:

- Undertaking research, designing behavioural interventions, and undertaking business experiments to measure the impact of proposed solutions on client behaviours
- Conduct literature reviews on existing behavioural science evidence on financial decision making and related behavioural interventions.
- Effectively package and communicate the findings of primary and secondary research to business units.
- Support training to business units on behavioural insights relevant to their business units.
- Support the effective knowledge management and curation of primary and secondary research through an online library and internal newsletter.
- Meet internal and external client needs by delivering quality and original research.
- Establish relationships with clients through constant engagement.
- Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
- Mitigate risk by managing research databases and meeting compliance and regulatory requirements through consultation with Compliance Division.
- Assist in positioning the BE Unit as valued business partner through proactive engagement and networking with internal and external stakeholders.
- Build and manage vendor relationships through engagement regarding business needs.
- Monitor performance by aligning own contribution to delivery of departmental plan against expected outcomes.
- Utilise resources by prioritising available resources versus stakeholder and regulatory requirements while being cognisant of cost.
- Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
- Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems; process; services and solutions are aligned. Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
- Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
- Resolve work obstacles by managing on a case-by-case basis and early escalation where required.

**Essential Qualifications**
- Hons Degree in economics, psychology, anthropology or the social sciences
- Preferred Qualification- Successfully completed:
- Master’s Degree in economics, psychology, anthropology, or social sciences
- For psychology students if you want to register with the HPCSA you will have to do your own tailored programme
- Minimum Requirement- You must:

- 18 and above
- be passionate about behavioural economics & behavioural science.
- Have a background in research; and
- have a clear criminal and credit record.
- Type Of Exposure- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Analysing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data
- Interacting with various levels of management
- Managing multiple projects
- Communicating complex information orally and in writing
- Identifying trends and evaluating opportunities
- Facilitating learning sessions on Behavioural Economics to business stakeholders
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_