UN Hiring Research Assistant for 2025 Vacancy – Apply Now!

UN Hiring Research Assistant for 2025 Vacancy – Apply Now!

• Job Opening ID: 260754
• Job Network : Economic, Social and Development
• Job Family : Social Affairs
• Category and Level : General Service and Related Categories, G-6
• Duty Station : SANTIAGO
• Department/Office : Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Deadline : Jul 10, 2025

The United Nations is looking for a passionate Research Assistant to join their team in 2025. If you’re eager to make a global impact through research, this is your chance to get involved! This position is located in the Division of Production, Productivity and Management. The incumbent reports to the Economic Affairs Officer.

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Responsibilities

• Assists in identifying and monitoring substantive subjects related to the LEO working area, and more generally productive development policies in the region. Selects and evaluates a variety of documents, summarize pertinent material, collects and analyses data and prepares background materials for assessment papers, studies, briefs and reports.
• Collaborate in the drafting of articles or other materials related to the research activity of the LEO 24-26.
• Systematically follows through and compiles information from a wide variety of information sources; prepares databases and co-operates with research institutes and organizations in the collection of data related to the LEO working area.
• Assembles and examines original statistical material related to territorial productive development, productive development governance, and more generally productive development policies, to ensure accuracy, clarity and validity; makes appropriate adjustments.
• Collaborate in the coordination activities related to the Division’s main lines of work regarding productive development policies, especially those related to the cluster platform, the network of subnational governments, and the social and solidarity economy.

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Requirements

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent is required. NOTE: For positions in the General Service category, candidates are required to clearly indicate in their Applicant Profile (AP) relevant information confirming completion of High School.

Work Experience

• Seven (7) years of experience in collecting and researching data across various areas of economic development and policy development is required.
• The minimum years of relevant experience is reduced to five (5) for candidates who possess a first-level university degree or higher.
• Solid experience in analysing data and supporting research on structural change and sectoral studies is required.
• Solid experience in organizing and developing research on economic development and, in particular, on productivity and productive development policies is required.
• Experience preparing inputs for papers and other publications related to the productive development topic is required.
• One (1) year or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
• For the post advertised, fluency in English and Spanish is required.