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Departmental Overview

UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business offers a unique opportunity to champion new ideas, collaborate across boundaries, and continually learn in a workplace committed to increasing diversity and creating a welcoming environment for all. Our distinctive culture is captured within our four Defining Leadership Principles: Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. These principles distinguish Berkeley Haas as a unique environment, conducive to teamwork, collaboration, and career growth.

For more information about the Haas School of Business visit: https://haas.berkeley.edu/about/

This position works with Haas faculty, who are at the cutting edge of business research. In addition to two Nobel Prizes, they have earned awards for spearheading research knowledge in game theory, behavior finance, Open Innovation, knowledge management, and more.

The Haas School of Business embraces flexible working arrangements for its employees. Exact arrangements are determined in partnership with your supervisor to meet role responsibilities and department needs, and are subject to change.

Application Review Date

The First Review Date for this job is: 05/06/2024.

Responsibilities

This position involved gathering, analyzing, and interpreting a wide variety of research data. This includes designing and conducting research, including selecting data samples, developing research instruments, analyzing collected information using established statistical methods, and developing recommendations based on research findings. The person in this position will prepare reports, charts, tables, and other visual aids to interpret and communicate data and results for Economics Faculty.

• Provides analyses and statistical studies for complex research proposals and protocols.
• Manages the personnel, timelines, logistics, and data collection for research studies of many different kinds.
• This may include drafting and debugging code for estimation routines, counterfactual simulations, and computational exercises; cleaning and preparing datasets for analysis; assembling literature reviews and paper summaries; copy editing for drafts of papers, grant proposals, and other research outputs; and participating in research meetings and offering feedback.
• Researches, monitors and analyzes research, including planning studies, designing survey instruments, determining the sampling and reporting structures, and preparing and analyzing research data.
• Proposes, leads and/or participates in management and coordination of efforts among the members of the research team and a diverse array of faculty and researchers.
• The coordination includes coordinating, attending, participating in, and running training activities to cultivate skills for members of the team; coordinating coding on larger project using version control software such as git; overseeing and training volunteer and paid undergraduate researchers; and maintaining the research group Slack and generating useful documentation and materials.
• Researches and summarizes best practices in field.
• Develops proposals and recommendations to guide and support faculty research and the supportive infrastructure related to it.
• Researches and analyzes data, reports, and literature, summarizes findings, and provide support to faculty by coordinating research meetings and interviewing, reviewing, and hiring undergraduate and predoctoral research assistants.
• Prepares directives, regulations, technical guidance, and other instructions for issuance to stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.

Professional Learning and Growth

• Embraces the principle of being a "student always" by engaging in opportunities for training, workshops, seminars, continuing education pertinent to the position, or at the suggestion of the supervisor.
• Actively contributes to a team environment that fosters and promotes a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) within the unit and at Haas.
• Engages in ongoing education to promote diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging by completing University sponsored certifications & training sessions (Ie: MEP Workshop, Implicit Bias Certification, LinkedIn Learning workshops, and other workshops & seminars offered by the University or Haas, as they are made available) or by engaging in external seminars & resources related to DEIB.
• Exemplifies Haas' four Defining Leadership Principles: (1) Question the status quo; (2) Confidence without attitude; (3) Students always; and (4) Beyond yourself.

Required Qualifications

• Proficiency in some of all of the following languages for writing code for computation and estimation: Python, Julie, STATA, MatLab, and/or Perl.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with all levels of staff, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to use discretion and maintain all confidentiality.
• Analytical/problem-solving skills.
• Strong skills in analyzing, researching and synthesizing large amounts of data for preparing sound and relevant proposals/analyses.
• Ability to multi-task with demanding timeframes.
• Strong policy analysis techniques.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrating a desire to promote diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging to establish and maintain positive & professional working relationships with colleagues, students and team members.
• Exemplifies Haas' four Defining Leadership Principles: (1) Question the status quo; (2) Confidence without attitude; (3) Students always; and (4) Beyond yourself.
• Demonstrates an understanding of and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in a business, organization or public university setting.

Education/Training:

• Bachelor's degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience running code in Linux-based remote server environments.
• Proficiency in version control software such as git.
• Experience in managing small teams.
• Experience writing on technical subjects for a professional or non-professional audience.

Salary & Benefits

This is a 1yr, full-time (40 hours/week), contract appointment, eligible for UC benefits with the possibility of extension with continued funding. This is a monthly paid, exempt position.

For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University, please visit the University of California's Compensation & Benefits website.

Under California law, the University of California, Berkeley is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role and should not offer a salary outside of the range posted in this job announcement. This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, analysis of internal equity, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be offered a salary at or near the top of the range for a position. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience.

The budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $70,100.00 -$74,000.00.

How to Apply

• To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter.

Other Information

• This is not a visa opportunity.

Conviction History Background

This is a designated position requiring fingerprinting and a background check due to the nature of the job responsibilities. Berkeley does hire people with conviction histories and reviews information received in the context of the job responsibilities. The University reserves the right to make employment contingent upon successful completion of the background check.

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