Research Assistant, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy (Job ID: 2024-3560)

The Brookings Institution - Washington, DC

Full-time - Entry Level

Hybrid - Washington, DC

Educational Services

About the position

Join one of the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tanks! The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level. We bring together leading experts in government and academia from all over the world, rooted in open-minded inquiry and representing diverse points of view, who provide the highest quality research, policy recommendations, and analysis. Research topics cover a full range of public policy issues in economics, foreign policy, development, governance and metropolitan policy. With fair and transparent business practices, clear communication, mutual respect, and a collaborative atmosphere that offers both professional and personal development opportunities, Brookings offers an inclusive and welcoming workplace that values the efforts of all contributors.

Responsibilities

• Undertakes research and policy analysis on a range of economic, health and social policy issues for one or more fellows or senior fellows.
• Research assistance including drafting materials and working papers, blogs and other publications.
• Verification of statistical calculations, literature searches, and computer work.
• Assisting the fellow and other staff with the management of projects.
• Works jointly with senior scholars, prepares and revises programming code, simulation macros, database files and regression estimates.
• Analyze data, using statistical packages and spreadsheets.
• Prepares tables and graphs output from model simulations.
• Updates and checks existing databanks; assembles, consolidates, and checks data from new sources.
• In collaboration with senior research staff, drafts material summarizing research results on specific topics as assigned.
• Provides analytical reviews and summaries of existing literature pertinent to the projects.
• Locates and collects relevant documents and data from sources such as electronic databases, libraries, and government publications.
• Compiles, reads, abstracts, and organizes written material into bibliographic form and summaries.
• Maintains electronic bibliography files.
• Assists with special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Updates web pages in support of the scholar's area of interest.
• Writes and edits summaries to be posted on pages relating to scholar's work.
• Gathers related bibliographic, link and current event information in support of pages to be created for a scholar's topic area.
• Works with ES communications team to prepare, lay out, and post scholar's work for publication on the web site.
• Coordinates with ES communications team on scholar's publication schedule.
• Assists designated scholar(s) with event preparation and logistics as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Mathematics/Statistics, Public Policy, or other Social Sciences with a minor in Economics required.
• Research experience in economics, policy research, and/or computer modeling preferred but not required.
• Competence to undertake research assignments with little supervision required.
• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong computer skills and experience required.
• Experience handling large data sets and models preferred.
• Independent research experience preferred.
• Experience with software such as STATA, R or other econometric packages required.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Generous time off.
• Workplace flexibility.