Jobs at CEPR

This is an exciting moment in CEPR’s 40-year history, as we have opened a Paris office, supported by a consortium of French public and private sector institutions, and are in the process of expanding our activities in France and therefore, the team.

Our current vacancies are listed below, click on the role of interest for further details.

Vacancies open for applications

Full time, permanent contract
€35k to €40k per annum, depending on experience
Reports to Executive Officer

Location: Paris | Primary working language: English
Hybrid environment, three days per week on-site

Overview
We are seeking an Executive Assistant to support the Executive Officer (EO), the Executive Officer for People Operations and Office Management, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and President.

Key Objectives
Supporting CEPR’s management with the establishment of CEPR’s office in Paris and maintaining and increasing engagement of local stakeholders, you will help CEPR achieve its operational objectives in Paris.

This is a ‘high visibility’ position at the interface between CEPR, its sponsors and its target communities in the public and private sectors. The role will require a very high standard of organization, efficiency and diplomacy in order to ensure the execution of the job at a standard commensurate with CEPR's reputation. It is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to take on a role with a great deal of responsibility at one of Europe’s leading economics research networks.

Key Tasks
You will support the work of CEPR’s President, CEO, COO and EOs. This will entail:
•    Assisting in their daily work routine, (projects, meetings, travel bookings, expense claims, invoicing...).
•    Researching, compiling, and maintaining CEPR local contacts as part of CEPR’s efforts in dissemination and development in Paris.
•    Fulfil integral office tasks for CEPR’s Paris office, which is leased from Sciences Po, involving both general and administrative duties.
•    In 2024/25, assist the EOs in organizing office and team expansion.
•    Support staff with various administrative procedures.
•    General assistance with ad hoc tasks and special projects, including some liaison with the Centre’s academic leadership, its finance, projects and events teams, and with the Centre’s Programme Directors, Research Fellows and Affiliates.

Person Specification
The successful candidate will be tactful, diplomatic and be able to coordinate activities across a widely dispersed group of researchers whilst in parallel handling administrative tasks of varied complexity.

In addition, they will:
•    Be a university graduate or have a BTS in administration.
•    Have demonstrable organisational skills appropriate for a highly multi-tasked environment, with excellent time management skills and an aptitude for the coordination of activities with geographically dispersed and remote teams.
•    Have excellent interpersonal communication and teamwork skills.
•    Be meticulous and able to operate at high levels of accuracy.
•    Have experience using online event platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and/or other systems.
•    Have excellent written English skills and experience with drafting documents.
•    Have a high degree of familiarity with Microsoft 365 productivity software (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.).
•    Proficiency in French (written and spoken) preferred. Other European language(s) a plus.
•    Right to work in the EU and ability to undertake restriction free travel (including to the UK) is essential.

Applications should be made by submission of a cover letter and CV in English to [email protected], quoting "EA24-WEB". The deadline is 5pm on Sunday 10 March 2024; however, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates invited for interview will be contacted.
The selection process will be conducted in English, and include some initial basic competency tests (numerical, proofreading and writing) and a two-stage interview process.

Full time, permanent position
Reports to Chief Executive Officer

Location: Paris | Primary working language: English
Hybrid environment, three days per week on-site

Overview
The Executive Officer: People Operations and Office Management will be a key member of the Paris leadership team and will manage the whole HR function for staff based both in France and the UK. They will also take the lead on the Paris office management.

Key Tasks:  HR
The Executive Officer will be expected to carry out the full range of HR functions, including, but not limited to:
•    Managing the recruitment process for all staff, whether based in France or the UK, including drafting job descriptions; placing adverts; drawing up shortlists; managing the interview process; through to the offer of a position.
•    Drafting a full range of employment contracts, in accordance with French or UK law, and arranging for signature, taking advice from lawyers where necessary.
•    Onboarding new staff in both Paris and London, including processing all mandatory hiring declarations; registering with mandatory and voluntary schemes/organisations; liaising with the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for all IT and software account(s) requirements.
•    For France, managing the monthly payroll, in collaboration with an external payroll provider. Setting up the payments at the bank; providing senior management with the appropriate paperwork to enable prior authorisation of salary payments.
•    For the UK, managing the full monthly payroll internally through Sage 50cloud Payroll. This involves the same tasks as for France, plus keeping personal information and tax codes up to date; reconciling the pay run with Sage 50 Accounts; and also managing the administration of staff pensions.
•    Keeping records of holidays, sickness etc, and reporting when required.
•    Taking charge of the SIPSI process when London-based staff travel to the Paris office, and acting as the company Legal Representative for this process.
•    Managing the visa process for staff in both France (frequently) and the UK (rarely).
•    Preparation of required registrations/documents for staff travel (for both offices) and ensuring that mandatory procedures are correctly followed.
•    Offboarding staff on their departure, to include checking end of employment documents, and deregistering from schemes/organisations.
•    Ensuring that CEPR complies with all relevant elements of the French labour code.
•    Managing and overseeing the annual appraisals process.
•    Drafting key internal communications for various staff-related issues.

Key Tasks: Office management (Paris)
•    Liaising with Sciences Po’s various departments who are responsible for CEPR’s office infrastructure.
•    Supporting the organisation of internal meetings, and external meetings that are hosted by CEPR.
•    In 2024, assist in the management and administration of the search for and potential subsequent move to new offices in Paris, coordinating with Sciences Po as well as with an external relocation agent.

Person Specification
We are seeking a bright and enthusiastic individual, with excellent organisational and time-management skills and wide-ranging experience of HR processes, particularly in France, with several years’ experience working in HR, ideally gained in a smaller international company where there is a lot of “hands on” work.

In addition, they will be/have:
•    Excellent interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work in a team, as well as autonomously.
•    Very good level of English, spoken and written, with the ability to draft communications effectively.
•    Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, hectic and rapidly changing environment and particularly to deadlines.
•    Attention to detail (crucial).
•    Utmost level of confidentiality in working with sensitive information.
•    Good familiarity with the Microsoft 365 suite.
•    The right to work in the EU, with ability to undertake restriction-free travel in the region and the UK.

To Apply
Applications should be made by submission of a cover letter and CV in English to [email protected], quoting "EOHR24-WEB". The deadline is 5pm on Sunday 10 March 2024; however, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates invited for interview will be contacted.
The selection process will be conducted in English, and include some initial basic competency tests (numerical, proofreading and writing) and a three-stage interview process.

Full time, permanent contract
£31k to £35k | €35.5k to €40k per annum depending on experience
Reports to VoxDev Managing Editor

Location: London or Paris | Primary working language: English
Hybrid environment, three days per week on-site

Overview
CEPR is looking to recruit a dynamic, driven individual with an interest in cutting-edge, policy-relevant economic research in low- and middle-income countries for a full-time role as Deputy Managing Editor at VoxDev. It’s an exciting time to join VoxDev, which is looking to expand the quantity and quality of its various outputs, and the Deputy Managing Editor will work with the Managing Editor to help VoxDev achieve its vision of becoming the global hub for development economics.

Key Objectives
VoxDev was launched in 2017 as a platform where academic economists and policy practitioners can share and debate emerging development policy challenges. Building on the success of both VoxEU.org and the International Growth Centre (IGC) blog, the website is a partnership between CEPR and IGC and is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Expert contributors bring insightful commentary, analysis, and evidence to bear on policy questions and challenges, in a format that is accessible to both specialist and non-specialist audiences in development economics.

The post-holder will make extensive use of their skills as an economist to help translate complex, technical material from frontier economic research into short- and long-format pieces for academic, student and policy audiences. They will work closely with the VoxDev Managing Editor in re-enforcing VoxDev’s position as the global hub for high quality commentary on development economics. They will help to commission, edit and disseminate columns, podcasts and some video content, translating academic research into easily understandable policy advice and ideas for growth. They will also work on maintaining and expanding the library of VoxDevLits, which are living literature reviews updated as the literature around a given topic evolves, covering a range of subjects in development.

The post-holder will be a member of the VoxDev Editorial Board, working closely with Managing Editor Oliver Hanney, and Editorial Board Members Michael Callen (LSE), Stefano Caria (University of Warwick), Namrata Kala (MIT), and Robert Darko Osei (University of Ghana).

This post would suit a strong MSc/MA student, or outstanding Bachelors student, who is passionate about evidence-based policymaking and envisions a career within the development sector or moving on to a top PhD programme in economics.

Key Tasks
•    Stay up-to-date with the latest research in development economics, and policymakers’ current needs for evidence, to work with the Managing Editor to make recommendations for the Editorial Board on commissioning VoxDev articles, podcasts and possible subjects for VoxDevLits.
•    Work with the Managing Editor to develop and maintain a sustainable pipeline of policy-relevant content, ensuring content is engaging and combines factual accuracy with high impact and accessibility.
•    Work with the Managing Editor to expand VoxDev’s reach in low- and middle-income countries through targeted social media campaigns, new partnerships and providing new educational resources.
•    Assist the Managing Editor in tracking VoxDev’s impact, through analytics and building relationships with key partners, to identify areas of expansion and successful strategies for growing our reach.
•    Help implement plans to further build VoxDev’s resources, which include making improvements to the VoxDev website, contributing to the VoxDev blog, creating resources for students, organising events, and thinking through how VoxDev can take advantage of improvements in generative AI.

Person Specification
Essential
•    Possession of either an outstanding Bachelors (essential) or MSc/MA (preferred) degree in economics or development economics.
•    Demonstrated understanding of policy-relevant development and economics research, including the ability to identify policy implications from
•    Excellent written and oral communication skills, in particularly when explaining complex technical information to non-specialist audiences, and summarising evidence to speak to current policy issues.
•    Dynamic and entrepreneurial approach, comfortable generating ideas, exploring their feasibility and effectiveness and then implementing.
•    Passionate about increasing the use of evidence from economic research amongst policymakers.
•    Ability to work closely with a small team to consistently meet deadlines.
•    Close attention to detail.
•    Interest in and knowledge about current policy challenges faced by policymakers in low- and middle-income countries.
•    The right to work in the EU or UK, with ability to undertake restriction-free travel in both regions.
Desirable
•    Involvement in building and growing a project, team or venture.
•    Experience of using social media to drive policy engagement.
•    Experience of commissioning and integrating infographics and data visualisation into communications products.
•    Experience working in developing countries.
•    Ability to contribute to networking by identifying key people to foster working relationships with.
•    Research experience (i.e. as a researcher or on a quantitative dissertation).

To deliver services effectively, a degree of flexibility is needed, and the post-holder may be required to perform work not specifically referred to above. 

To Apply
Applications should be made by submission of a CV and cover letter to Oliver Hanney, VoxDev Managing Editor, at [email protected]. The deadline is 5pm on Friday 29 March, however, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please state when you are available to start work. You will need to have the right to work in either the UK or the EU in order to be considered for this position.

Vacancies closed for applications

Shortlisting/interviews in progress.

Shortlisting/interviews in progress.

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