| Purpose |
To 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 tax compliance issues and widening the tax base
- 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
- Ensure and adhere to proper planning and reporting of activities following RRA reporting requirements
- Perform any other duties related to RRA business as assigned by line manager
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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 International Economics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Development Economics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Science in Economics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Art in Economics
- Master’s Degree in Statistics specialized in Economic Statistics
- Master’s Degree in Statistics specialized in Statistics Applied to Economy
- Master’s Degree in Applied Economics specialized in Economics
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| Relevant Qualifications |
- Master’s Degree in Public policy specialized in Economic Policy Analyis
- Master’s Degree in Public Finance specialized in Tax policy Analysis
- Master’s Degree in Public policy specialized in Impact Evaluation
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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 |
medium |
| Language |
Proficiency in English |
medium |
| Practical knowledge of statistical process control and data management; |
Practical knowledge of statistical process control and data management; |
medium |
| 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 |
Required Competencies |
- Data analytical skills.
- Ability to organize and prioritize workloads, meet deadlines
- Research study design
- Ability to conduct research;
- Good analytical and written communication skills.
- Ability to build strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders;
- Experience of econometric techniques, predictive analytics, and data mining and statistical analysis using large, complex datasets would be an added advantage.
- Ability to prioritize workloads and work under pressure as well as a team member;
- Ability to follow specified procedures, solve problems, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate tasks to deliver outputs to meet required deadlines;
- 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;
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| Required Experiences |
- 4 years experience in Research, policy analysis or impact evaluation
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