Overview
Contribute to the development of frameworks integrating economic, financial, and environmental-related statistics. Deliver capacity development to member countries to strengthen the production of data and indicators on environmental economics.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of frameworks that integrate economic, financial, and environmental-related statistics.
- Deliver capacity development (technical assistance and training) to member countries to strengthen the production of data and indicators on environmental economics.
- Contribute to the update of conceptual standards and the development of a forward-looking research agenda.
- Develop economic activity indicators and data, such as air emissions and energy accounts, climate mitigation and adaptation expenditures.
- Measure the development of new national accounts data on environmental-related assets.
- Develop cross-border related indicators, such CO2 emissions embodied in trade.
- Develop forward-looking physical risk indicators.
Required Experience
- Proven experience in developing environmental-economic statistics (e.g., SEEA-CF, climate indicators) and integrating them into macroeconomic frameworks like the System of National Accounts, balance of payments, or government finance statistics.
- Proficiency in using open-source software languages, such as R, Python, or similar tools to handle large, complex datasets for policy-relevant analysis. Expertise would be ideal.
Qualifications
• An advanced degree (Masters’ or PhD) in economics, statistics, or related to environment-economics as well as a good grounding in quantitative analysis.
