Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is seeking a Program Associate in Economics. This position starts July 2022. This is a 2 to 3-year postdoctoral position that offers outstanding opportunities to help shape, study, survey, and conduct academic research.

Please visit https://sloan.org/about/careers#tab-program-associate-for-economics for the position’s full description.

The Sloan Foundation is a not-for-profit grantmaking institution that supports high-quality and impartial research in science, technology, and economics.

In economics, the Sloan Foundation supports rigorous scientific research that expands current boundaries of the discipline, has a high expected return to society, and for which funding from other sources is not yet widely available. Sloan’s Economics program currently supports work on behavioral economics, the economics of science and technology, and on methods that accelerate the production of rigorous research.

The Program Associate has significant responsibilities developing, evaluating, and managing grant proposals in economics and reports to the Program Director. This is a position for a recent Ph.D. in economics or closely related field. Experience working in a firm or a nonprofit organization, especially as a research assistant, would be helpful. Excellent communication and organizational skills, along with scholarly judgement and curiosity, are essential. Experience with data, coding, and econometrics is highly desirable.