| Job details |
| Research and Policy Analysis Section |
| Job Title: |
Principal Professional in Charge of Research and Policy Analysis |
| Grade: |
P3 |
| Supervisor: |
Supervisor in charge of Research and Policy Analysis |
| Location: |
HQ |
| Working Mode: |
Hybrid |
| Purpose |
To independently identify and document specific economic trends, revenue collection performance, prevailing challenges and opportunities and conduct relevant research and policy analysis to inform decisions on both tax policy and administrative measures to improve tax compliance, efficiency and effectiveness in revenue administration and revenue collection.
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| Key duties and responsibilities |
- Conduct research on widening the tax base and issues of tax compliance
- – Conduct impact evaluation of RRA initiatives aimed at improving compliance, boosting revenues and modernizing the tax administration (Incl. Customer satisfaction and Taxpayer perception surveys)
- Formulate tax policy proposals and perform both pre-and post-implementation impact analysis of various tax policies on revenue collection
- Benchmark on evolving tax policy landscape with other countries and work with relevant stakeholders to formulate appropriate tax policy proposals
- Ensure research recommendations are fully implemented
- Provide guidance and support to junior researchers in the team
- Create and update dashboards/models for easy monitoring of trends of important shocks on revenue collection.
- Perform any other duties related to RRA business as assigned by line manager.
- Ensure and adhere to proper planning and reporting of activities following RRA reporting requirements
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| Required Academic Qualification |
| Preferred Qualifications |
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Monetary Economics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Development Economics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Science in Economics
- Master’s Degree in Statistics specialized in Economic statistics
- Master’s Degree in Data Science specialized in Econometrics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Art in Economics
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| Relevant Qualifications |
- Master’s Degree in Public Policy specialized in Tax Policy Analysis
- Master’s Degree in Public Finance specialized in Impact Evaluation
- Master’s Degree in Public policy specialized in Research in Taxation
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| Skill Type |
Required Skill |
Required Proficiency level |
| Communication skills including Oral, report writing and presentation |
Communication skills including oral, report writing and presentation |
advanced |
| Interpersonal |
Team working skills |
medium |
| Interpersonal |
Ability to manage small team |
medium |
| Language |
Proficiency in English |
advanced |
| Strong data analysis skills using latest data programming softwares such as Stata & R |
Strong data analysis skills and proficiency in securely working with large datasets |
medium |
| Working load management |
Ability to work under pressure. |
medium |
Required Competencies |
- Ability to organize and prioritize workloads, meet deadlines
- Ability to build strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders;
- Ability to supervise or lead other professionals or project technical teams
- Ability to assist in operational decision making
- Research study design
- Strong ability to make recommendations on tax policies, reforms, regulations and legislation;
- Ability to lead and supervise other technical or support staff on a regular or permanent basis.
- Familiar with data manipulation and storage related technologies (cloud storage, computing powers of machines, data analytical software’s etc.) etc..)
- – Experience of econometric techniques, predictive analytics, and data mining and statistical analysis using large, complex datasets would be an added advantage.
- Ability to communicate findings from complex analysis to a wide variety of audiences, through written reports and oral presentations;
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of data analytical software and languages such as STATA, SPSS, R, and Excel;
- Ability to follow specified procedures, solve problems, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate tasks to deliver outputs to meet required deadlines;
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| Required Experiences |
- 6 years experience in Research, Policy Analysis or Impact Evaluation
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