2 Job Positions at Rwanda Revenue Authority: (Deadline 29 April 2024)
Professional in Charge of Research and Policy Analysis at Rwanda Revenue Authority: (Deadline 29 April 2024)
| Job details |
| Research and Policy Analysis Section |
| Job Title: |
Professional in Charge of Research and Policy Analysis |
| Grade: |
P1 |
| Supervisor: |
Supervisor in charge of Research and Policy Analysis |
| Location: |
HQ |
| Working Mode: |
Hybrid |
| Purpose |
| The job purpose for the Professional in Charge of Research and Policy Analysis is to: independently identify and document specific economic trends, revenue collection performance, prevailing challenges and opportunities and conduct relevant research and policy analysis to inform decisions on both tax policy and administrative measures to improve tax compliance, efficiency and effectiveness in tax administration and revenue collection. |
| Key duties and responsibilities |
- Conduct impact evaluation of RRA initiatives aimed at improving compliance, boosting revenues and modernizing the tax administration (Incl. Customer satisfaction and Taxpayer perception surveys)
- Conduct research on widening the tax base and issues of tax compliance
- Formulate tax policy proposals and perform both pre-and post-implementation impact analysis of various tax policies on revenue collection
- Benchmark on evolving tax policy landscape with other countries and work with relevant stakeholders to formulate appropriate tax policy proposals
- Ensure research recommendations are fully implemented
- Provide guidance and support to junior researchers in the team
- Ensure and adhere to proper planning and reporting of activities following RRA reporting requirements
- Create and update dashboards/models for easy monitoring of trends of important shocks on revenue collection
- Perform any other duties related to RRA business as assigned by line manager
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| Required Academic Qualification |
| Preferred Qualifications |
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Monetary Economics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in International Economics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Development Economics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Art in Economics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Science in Economics
- Master’s Degree in Statistics specialized in Statistics Applied to Economy
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Science in Economics
- Master’s Degree in Statistics specialized in Economic statistics
- Master’s Degree in Data Science specialized in Econometrics
- Master’s Degree in Public policy specialized in Tax policy Analysis
- Master’s Degree in Public Finance specialized in Impact Evaluation
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Economic Policy Analysis
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| Relevant Qualifications |
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics specialized in Economic statistics
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics specialized in Statistics Applied to Economy
- Bachelor’s Degree in Economics specialized in International Economics
- Bachelor’s Degree in Economics specialized in Monetary Economics
- Bachelor’s Degree in Economics specialized in Development Economics
- Bachelor’s Degree in Economics specialized in Science in Economics
- Bachelor’s Degree in Economics specialized in Art in Economics
- Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics specialized in Statistics
- Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Statistics specialized in Statistics
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| Skill Type |
Required Skill |
Required Proficiency level |
| COMMUNICATION |
Good analytical and written communication skills |
medium |
| Interpersonal |
Team working skills |
medium |
| Language |
Proficiency in English |
medium |
| Practical skills and experience in handling goods & works contracts and consultancy services con |
Handling of goods & works contracts and consultancy services contracts; |
medium |
| Strong data analysis skills using latest data programming softwares such as Stata & R |
Strong data analysis skills and proficiency in securely working with large datasets |
medium |
| Required Competencies |
- Data analytical skills.
- Research study design
- Ability to conduct research;
- Ability to communicate findings from complex analysis to a wide variety of audiences, through written reports and oral presentations;
- Ability to follow specified procedures, solve problems, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate tasks to deliver outputs to meet required deadlines;
- Ability to prioritize workloads and work under pressure as well as a team member;
- Experience of econometric techniques, predictive analytics, and data mining and statistical analysis using large, complex datasets would be an added advantage.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of data analytical software and languages such as STATA, SPSS, R, and Excel;
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| Required Experiences |
- 2 years experience in Research and Policy Analysis or Impact Evaluation
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Supervisor in charge of Revenue Modelling and Statistics at Rwanda Revenue Authority: (Deadline 29 April 2024)
| Job details |
| Revenue Modelling and Statistics Section |
| Job Title: |
Supervisor in charge of Revenue Modelling and Statistics |
| Grade: |
M1 |
| Supervisor: |
Director for Research, Policy Analysis and Statistics Unit |
| Location: |
HQ |
| Working Mode: |
Hybrid |
| Purpose |
| A Supervisor in a member of the lower management. S/he organises operational activities of the Revenue Modelling and Statistics teams, supervises and reports on team activities, motivates and assesses team performance in order to achieve assigned operational priorities, assignments and targets. |
| Key duties and responsibilities |
- Ensure proper maintenance and coordination of Microsimulation models, to make quick impact analysis of new policies that will affect revenue projections;
- Coordinate Tax Gap modelling and ensure accuracy and quality of its reporting, for core taxes (CIT/PIT, VAT, PAYE, Customs Taxes)
- Coordinate tax expenditure modelling for VAT, CIT/PIT, PAYE, Excise duty and Customs duties and ensure accuracy and quality related reports.
- Coordinate the Compilation and ensure accuracy and quality of data published in the National and international Publications
- Ensure timely compilation and accuracy of the RRA Tax statistics Publication;
- Plan and assign operational tasks to various workers on own team.
- Guide, instruct, control and supervise team members to achieve operational performance targets.
- Advise on staff deployment, and talent management, and conduct team performance assessment, encourage continuous learning and capacity development within the Section.
- Often carry out technical and support work especially involving the most difficult tasks.
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| Required Academic Qualification |
| Preferred Qualifications |
- Master’s Degree in Statistics specialized in Statistics
- Master’s Degree in Economics specialized in Economics
- Master’s Degree in Mathematical Sciences specialized in Statistics
- Master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics specialized in Data Science
- Master’s Degree in in Data Science specialized in Econometrics
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| Relevant Qualifications |
- Master’s Degree in Quantitative Analysis specialized in Quantitative Analysis
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| Skill Type |
Required Skill |
Required Proficiency level |
| Coding |
Data manipulation using Data Science tools (R, Python, SQL, etc…) |
medium |
| Computer Literacy |
Spreadsheets (MS Excel) |
advanced |
| Computer Literacy |
Presentation (MS PowerPoint) |
advanced |
| Computer Literacy |
Word Processing (MS Word) |
advanced |
| Language |
Proficiency in English |
advanced |
| Presentation |
Skills in drafting ,reporting and presentation |
advanced |
| Required Competencies |
- Ability to follow specified procedures, solve problems, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate tasks to deliver outputs to meet required deadlines;
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of data analytical software and languages such as STATA, R, Python, SPSS and Excel;
- Ability to communicate findings from complex analysis to a wide variety of audiences, through written reports and oral presentations;
- Data Visualization skills
- Ability to prioritize workloads and work under pressure
- Experience using econometric techniques, predictive analytics, data mining and statistical analysis for large, complex datasets;
- Excellent oral and written English; proficiency in French and Kinyarwanda is added value.
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| Required Experiences |
- 4 years experience in Statistical Analysis and Policy Analyis
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