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Part-Time Junior Economic Analyst
Location
Virginia
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$55.7K - $94.6K / year
Seniority
Junior
Job Description
Part-Time Junior Economic Analyst
ICF
• Conduct desk research on products, industries, labor issues, countries, and global supply chains. • Collect, organize, and analyze production, import, export, tariff, customs, and trade-flow data. • Support quantitative and qualitative analysis of trade, labor market, and economic datasets. • Assist in developing supply chain maps, commodity flow diagrams, and sector profiles. • Review academic literature, government reports, company disclosures, NGO reports, and media sources. • Conduct literature reviews on labor rights, forced labor, child labor, migration, recruitment, and occupational safety and health. • Develop tables, charts, data visualizations, and evidence matrices. • Support qualitative research, including interview summaries and coding of findings. • Draft background sections, methodology sections, country profiles, and analytical summaries. • Support fact-checking, source verification, citations, editing, formatting, and report production. • Maintain data files, research trackers, bibliographies, and project documentation. • Participate in project meetings and support project coordination activities.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, International Development, Public Policy, International Relations, Statistics, Political Science, Business, Supply Chain Management, or related field.
- Minimum one year of relevant academic, internship, research assistant, or professional experience.
- Knowledge of basic economic principles, international trade, labor markets, or development issues.
- Strong research and analytical skills.
- Strong Excel skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Coursework or experience in labor economics, international trade, development economics, human rights, or supply chain analysis preferred.
- Familiarity with UN Comtrade, ITC Trade Map, World Bank, ILOSTAT, FAOSTAT, WTO, OECD, or similar databases preferred.
- Experience with R, Stata, Python, SPSS, Tableau, Power BI, GIS, or related tools preferred.
- Familiarity with child labor, forced labor, responsible sourcing, corporate due diligence, or international labor standards preferred.
- Foreign language skills, particularly Spanish, Portuguese, French preferred.
- Experience supporting federally funded research projects preferred.
Benefits
- Reasonable Accommodations are available
- Professional development opportunities
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