Research consultant (freelance)

By Priya Chetty on November 25, 2016

As the research and analysis arm, we deliver information that helps, scholars and organizations to understand major developments in science, business affairs, geopolitics, finance, IT, governmental policy, and development economics. We are recruiting freelance research analysts to work with a focused, objective-oriented and diverse team. You will help us to support our scholarly research projects, and consulting projects, and deliver research projects with a strong interpretation.

Description

As a research consultant you will be required to:

  • Prepare and deliver research inputs and reports for academic research, client consulting projects, benchmarking, data collection, interpretation, analysis, and presentations.
  • Conduct secondary research, understand, analyze, interpret, and report.
  • Develop and design primary research approaches and methodology.

Areas of specialization

Candidates in the following subjects are invited to apply: Management, Law, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Political affairs, Social sciences, Education, Computer Science, and English Literature.

Requirements

  1. Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
  2. Proficiency with at least one of the statistical applications such as SPSS, STATA or Eviews.
  3. Strong writing skills.
  4. A computer with an internet connection.
  5. Google Hangouts.
  6. Bank account.
  7. A valid PAN card.

Qualifications

  1. At least a post-graduation degree.
  2. At least 6 months’ experience as a research analyst, scholar or fellow.
  3. Needs to be well-versed with at least 1 referencing style (Harvard/ MLA/ APA/ Chicago).

Work hours

You will have flexibility in work hours. However, we do not operate on a delivery-on-deadline basis. All documents are to be sent to Handler before 9 pm IST every day. Sundays and major National holidays are off days.

What do we expect from the test?

  1. You know how to read, organise, test and interpret numerical data.
  2. You have theoretical and applied knowledge of supervised machine learning.
  3. You know about plagiarism and will not commit it.
  4. You are familiar with different citation methods such as Harvard, MLA and APA.
  5. You can conduct independent research in a time frame.
  6. You know how to present a paper.
  7. You know the English language very well.

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