Main Responsibilities
Outputs
- Lead the development of thematic reports based on TALIS 2024 data (e.g. environmental sustainability education school principals) which includes but is not limited to:
- Developing the reporting plan
- Analysing data
- Soliciting feedback from countries and OECD senior leadership
- Drafting and revising report text.
- Contribute to the development of other reports.
Survey development
- Oversee the development of TALIS-related initiatives (e.g. the Teacher Knowledge Survey TALIS and the teacher attrition study).
- Meet regularly with TALIS contractors to ensure that operations are progressing on schedule and as planned.
- Communicate with experts and solicit their feedback on key issues related to TALIS.
Country engagement
- Meet regularly with TALIS participants to build relationships and understand their needs.
- Communicate country feedback to the TALIS team and international contractor to ensure that country needs are addressed.
- Perform outreach to countries who are interested in joining TALIS.
- Represent TALIS at international events give presentations meet with senior government officials.
Meeting organisation
- Contribute to the organizing of TALIS Governing Board (TGB) meetings by drafting documents and preparing presentations.
- Attend TGB meetings and lead meeting sessions.
- Organize and lead meetings of experts and stakeholders to steer specific activities (e.g. an expert group on the Teacher Knowledge Survey or a group of measurement experts for TALIS).
Administration
- Contribute to the conceptualisation and development of the next cycle of TALIS (to be administered in 2030).
- Manage budgets and oversee expenditures of TALIS modules and activities.
- Encourage and improve the use of team management tools and practices (e.g. shared calendars project management software and post-mortem evaluations).
- Contribute to horizontal efforts within the division and directorate such as aligning policy related work with TALIS data.
Qualifications :
Ideal Candidate Profile
Academic Background
- An advanced university degree or equivalent in education psychology quantitative research methodology or a related field.
Professional Background
- A minimum of three years of experience as an education practitioner and/or researcher. Full-time classroom teaching experience (ISCED 1 ISCED 2 ISCED 3) would be an advantage.
- A minimum of two years experience in quantitative data analysis and reporting. Experience in analysing survey data (i.e. working with sampling weights) would be an advantage.
- Good knowledge of teaching and teacher policies.
- Good project management skills with the ability to plan co-ordinate and supervise complex projects and to deliver them on schedule.
- Ability to present complex analyses to specialist and non-specialist audience.
Tools
- Advanced fluency in R.
- Github/Gitlab/Algobank.
- Advanced fluency in Python would be an advantage.
- Advanced fluency in STATA would be an advantage.
- Power BI would be an advantage.
- Project management software experience would be an advantage.
Core Competencies
- OECD staff are expected to demonstrate behaviours aligned to six core competencies which will be assessed as part of this hiring processes:
- Vision and Strategy (Level 2).
- Enable People (Level 1).
- Ethics and Integrity (Level 2).
- Collaboration and Horizontality (Level 2).
- Achieve Results (Level 2).
- Innovate and Embrace Change (Level 2).
- To learn more about the definitions for each competency for levels 1-3 please refer to OECD Core Competencies.
Languages
- Fluency in one of the two OECD official languages (English and French) and knowledge of the other with a commitment to reach a good working level.
- Knowledge of Spanish would be an asset.
- Knowledge of Arabic would be an asset.
Additional Information :
Closing Date
- This vacancy should be filled as soon as possible and applications should reach us no later than Sunday 29 June 2025 23h59 (Paris time).
Contract Duration
- This vacancy will be used to fill multiple positions. The appointment type will be determined based on the needs of the Directorate and will be confirmed when an offer of employment is made to the selected candidate.
What the OECD offers
Selection Process
For retained candidates the selection process may include a video-recorded interview job-based assessment and panel interviews.
The OECD is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes the applications of all qualified candidates who are nationals of OECD member countries irrespective of their racial or ethnic origin opinions or beliefs gender sexual orientation health or disabilities.
The OECD promotes an optimal use of resources in order to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. Staff members are encouraged to actively contribute to this goal.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time