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The Research Associate will contribute to the development of natural capital estimates for offshore oil and gas, commercial fisheries, and beach recreation in execution of the National Strategy to Develop Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions. The project will develop estimates and test data methodologies for the creation of natural capital accounts consistent with the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounts.

Working with the Director of Research of CBE, this position will have lead or support responsibilities to:

• Collect, organize, and create data management structures for offshore minerals, fisheries, and beach recreation.
• Collect data from national income accounts on these sectors.
• Create input/output tables for the sectors.
• Develop forecasting capacity to project future values of the key sectors.
• Assess and recommend appropriate discounting methods
• Create natural capital accounts consistent with the U.N. Statistics of Environmental Accounts
• Check consistency of capital accounting methods with other participants in the Federal Natural Capital Project
• Develop recommendations for continued development and updating of the natural capital data

Requirements

• Masters degree in economics or related field; PhD (or ABD) preferred
• Knowledge of national income accounting, ecological and environmental economics, and finance
• High level of data management skills
• Strong statistical skills
• Familiarity with variety of software and hardware used in data management and statistics such as R, SAS, SPSS, SQL, javascript, etc.
• Strong writing and presentation skills to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Ability to work on own, defining and carrying out tasks and reporting as required.
• Experience in a work setting (as distinguished from an academic setting) demonstrating above skills a strong plus.

This is a term-limited position with employment to April, 2024

This position is expected to be remote work; residence in Monterey and working in the office is encouraged, but not required. For remote work, employee must have access to reliable internet, adequate computing and communications, and a willingness to manage their own time while staying within schedules determined by the research team.

Benefits

As an employee of Middlebury College, you will enjoy being part of a vibrant supportive community.
Middlebury offers its employees excellent compensation and competitive health, dental, life, disability, generous retirement matching, and vision benefits, Middlebury offers a generous time-away program - up to 34 days per year during the first two years of service, increasing as the term of service lengthens. Middlebury employees are eligible for robust educational assistance programs. The result is a very high quality-of-life in a gorgeous setting. Come join us and be a part of our team!

Benefits include:

• Excellent Health Benefits choose between an Low Deductible PPO or a HDHP with employer HSA contributions up to $2,000 dollars a year
• Dental, Vision, Flexibile Spending Accounts (Dependent Care and Healthcare)
• Core Life and AD&D
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• Combined Time Off (CTO): 26 days of paid time off a year for vacation or sick days in the first two years; 31 days of CTO after two years.
• Holidays: Floating Holidays throughout the year as well as Paid Holiday from Christmas through New Year's Day
• Professional Development Funds,Continuing Education Benefits for Employees and Tuition Benefits for their dependents.

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