Research Officer (Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme)

The Research Officer will be part of the Illicit Crop Monitoring Programme, which works with countries to compile reliable and internationally comparable data on drug crop cultivation and related socio-economic and security factors.  S/he will:

• organize and carry out the collection, analysis, and dissemination of socio-economic and other data on drugs by selecting methods of data collection, data checking, and selecting and implementing appropriate methods for data processing for incorporation into databases. 
• Develop indicators and methodologies for review and evaluation of specific topics; Interpret, apply and, as necessary, adapt econometric models to determine trends, patterns and relationships in socio-economic and other data obtained from UNODC surveys, including from illicit crop monitoring surveys, to deduct implications for designing drug control policies, including alternative development interventions.
• Develop socio-economic databases and qualitative information necessary for specified recurrent or ad hoc assignments.
• Design and conduct research on the link between drugs and other factors, such as social and economic development in relation with the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Draft specified inputs for technical papers and analytical studies on selected global, regional, national or sector aspects of economic development with a focus on drug markets.
• Participate in fact-finding and advisory missions to government and other activities in support of work programme.