The Opportunity

Gusto Embedded Payroll (GEP) is one of Gusto's highest-growth bets — a platform business that enables software companies to offer Gusto-powered payroll directly within their own products. We're looking for a Head of Partner Growth to lead the team responsible for making our embedded partners successful: driving go-to-market execution, growing partner revenue, and building the operational and strategic frameworks that will scale this business toward $100M+.

This is a player-coach leadership role. You'll manage a cross-functional team spanning Partner Success Management (PSM) and Partner enablement— while also staying deeply hands-on with our most strategic partner relationships. You'll own the partner growth playbook end-to-end: from GTM planning and launch sequencing through ongoing optimization, escalation management, and executive relationship development.

Gusto's partnerships organization focuses on evaluating and executing strategic partnerships in new categories. Gusto Embedded Payroll allows us to bring our people platform to thousands more businesses than those we serve directly and will play a key role in Gusto's growth.

What It's Like to Work in This Role

Lead & Develop

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Partner Success Managers and Partner Enablement
• Set the operational rhythm for the partner growth function — including planning cadences, escalation workflows, and performance management
• Coach team members on partner strategy, executive communication, and cross-functional navigation
• Drive Enablement with the ideation, creation, and execution of enablement frameworks and materials.
• Drive AI fluency across the team — embedding AI tools and workflows into day-to-day partner operations, GTM planning, and internal knowledge management to accelerate output and decision quality

Strategize & Plan

• Own the partner growth strategy across the GEP portfolio, including partner segmentation, prioritization, and resource allocation
• Develop and maintain per-partner operating plans with clear success metrics, in collaboration with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales Enablement
• Build repeatable GTM playbooks — covering co-marketing motions, sales enablement, content roadmaps, and launch sequencing — tailored to each partner's distribution model and ICP
• Translate portfolio-level data (revenue, attach rates, funnel performance) into strategic narratives for leadership

Operate & Execute

• Drive success for our partners and their end customers through adoption, activation, and retention of Gusto-powered embedded products
• Own the full marketing funnel and sales motion with partners — from top-of-funnel demand generation through conversion, onboarding, and expansion
• Manage complex, high-stakes partner relationships directly — including contract negotiations, executive escalations, and cross-functional alignment on roadmap priorities
• Lead partner incident response and escalation management with structured, cross-functional workflows

Build for Scale

• Create and expand the feedback loop between partners, their end users, and Gusto's internal product, marketing, engineering, and operations teams
• Design frameworks, templates, and processes that enable the team to manage a growing partner portfolio without linear headcount growth
• Identify and implement AI-powered workflows and tools that improve team efficiency, partner reporting, and knowledge management

What We're Looking For

• 12-15 years of experience, with 8+ years in a people management role and 7+ years in partner-facing or channel-facing roles
• Partner-side perspective: Has operated on the partner or channel side of the table — understands how partners evaluate, prioritize, and activate embedded or referral relationships
• Farmer mentality: Wired to grow and deepen existing partner relationships through trust-building, strategic account planning, and proactive expansion — not just hunting new deals
• Methodical operator: Builds repeatable playbooks, escalation frameworks, and operational rhythms rather than relying on one-off heroics. Strong systems thinker
• GTM playbook experience: Hands-on experience building go-to-market plans from scratch — including co-marketing, keyword strategies, content roadmaps, and launch sequencing
• Full-funnel fluency: Understands the complete marketing and sales journey from demand gen through conversion, activation, and retention. Can diagnose where a partner motion is leaking value and prescribe the right intervention
• AI fluency: Actively uses AI tools (e.g., LLMs, automation platforms) to accelerate workflows, improve decision quality, and build team capability. Comfortable leading an AI adoption agenda within a team
• Executive communicator: Strong ghostwriter and strategic communicator who can represent the partnership function credibly with C-suite stakeholders — both internally and at partner organizations
• Strong sense of ownership and resilience: Thrives in ambiguity, takes initiative, and drives outcomes without waiting for permission
• Exceptional written and verbal communication: Can shift register fluently between partner-facing emails, internal Slack, leadership documents, and board-level narratives

Strong Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with embedded or platform business models (APIs, developer tools, B2B2B)
• Knowledge of payroll, HR tech, or fintech software ecosystems
• Experience managing partner P&Ls, cost-to-manage models, or portfolio-level financial analysis
• "Gets" the building-mode opportunity — has scaled a partner function from early stage, not just inherited a mature program

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at:
$230,215 - $270,500 in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY 
$195,745 - $230,000 in Denver, CO;  Phoenix, AZ; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Las Vegas, NV

If you are outside of the geographic areas above, your application will not be considered at this time.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About the Role:

We are looking for a strategic and results-driven Account Manager to own customer relationships, maximize retention, and drive account expansion within a dedicated Book of Business (BoB). This role requires a balance of Sales, Customer Success, and Account Management skills to ensure customers realize the full value of Gusto’s products while identifying new opportunities for growth.

Key Responsibilities:

Account Management & Customer Success

• Manage a dedicated BoB, ensuring high engagement, adoption, and long-term customer satisfaction at scale.
• Build and nurture relationships to uncover cross-sell and upsell opportunities.
• Guide customers through key moments that matter along our customer journey to maximize value realization, drive expansion, and proactively reduce churn.
• Leverage product insights and customer data to assess account health and drive proactive outreach.

Sales & Opportunity Identification

• Identify and execute on growth opportunities by addressing additional customer pain points with Gusto’s suite of products.
• Utilize a hunter and farmer approach to both maintain and expand customer relationships.
• Own outbound prospecting, pitching, and closing within existing accounts to drive revenue growth.
• Daily activities include conducting approximately 20 outbound dials to your current book of business.
• Hold around 6 meetings with your customers each day to support relationship development and drive expansion revenue goals.
• Use AI-powered workflows as a core part of how you sell: running assigned tools daily, surfacing friction and inefficiencies as you find them, and collaborating with your team to influence what gets built or improved next.

Prioritization & Agility

• Use data-driven insights to prioritize accounts, ensuring focus on the highest-impact opportunities.
• React quickly to customer needs while maintaining a proactive, strategic approach to retention and expansion.
• Align with internal teams to ensure customers receive best-in-class service and product solutions.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• Proven 3+ years experience in B2B SaaS Customer Success, Account Management, or Sales with a track record of driving retention and expansion revenue. 
• Experience in managing a large book of business and operating at scale. 
• Strong ability to analyze customer data, assess account health, and execute targeted outreach.
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills with a consultative, customer-first approach.
• Deep understanding of Gusto’s products and the ability to translate customer pain points into tailored solutions.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to prioritize, adapt, and execute in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven, day-to-day experience integrating AI into how you work - across writing, research, prep, and summarization as a core part of your workflow, with a track record of giving clear, useful feedback that helps improve your tools and processes.

If you're passionate about driving customer success, maximizing retention, and uncovering growth opportunities, we’d love to hear from you!

Our cash compensation range for this role is $95,000 to $125,000 OTE in Denver, Atlanta, Phoenix, Chicago and most remote locations. Remote locations will vary based on our geographical pay approach. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Come for the mission. Stay for the healthtech innovation.

Let’s keep things simple: we’re a talented, hard-working, and compassionate team driving towards a mission that impacts every single one of us. Our path to success is paved with our proprietary technology, demanding team members who are naturally AI-forward and data-driven to accelerate our impact.

Healthcare benefits are complex, underutilized, and a mystery for most people. That’s why it’s our vision to remove the complexity from being healthy and well. HealthJoy guides employees to affordable, high-quality healthcare by consolidating our clients’ health and wellness strategies into the HealthJoy Benefits OS - a simple, unified digital experience. This leads to healthier employees and a healthier bottom line.

With over $100M in fundraising to date, HealthJoy has garnered workplace awards for Inc.'s Fastest Growing Startups and Built In Chicago’s Best Places to Work while growing globally to over 300 team members. We’re continuing down the path of high growth and high impact, and this role is a key member of the Customer Success team making that happen.

Your impact. 

HealthJoy’s Customer Success Team is leading the charge at HealthJoy to deliver industry-leading outcomes to our customers, with the ultimate goal of driving customer retention and growth. 

As a Customer Success Manager, you’ll lead a designated book of business aligned to HealthJoy’s most strategic broker partners This is a unique opportunity for a high-energy benefits industry professional who is passionate about delivering customer value, and excited to pivot to a dynamic, fast-paced environment.  You will be a key driver of HealthJoy’s revenue goals through proactive account management, strategic expansion, and world-class retention efforts.

Here’s what you could expect in the role.

• Strategic Book Management: Confidently and independently own key outcomes for your book of business, including product adoption, utilization, Net Dollar Retention (NDR), and overall customer health.
• Full-Cycle Revenue Ownership: Lead the end-to-end renewal and expansion sales process. You will identify, negotiate, and close upsell opportunities by aligning HealthJoy’s marketplace solutions with customer needs.
• Sales Cycle Execution: Demonstrate mastery of the full sales cycle within your book of business. You will partner with Product Solutions Consultants and other senior leaders to conduct deep discovery to uncover pain points, map those challenges to HealthJoy solutions, and move deals forward by confidently asking for the close and defining clear, actionable next steps.
• Executive Presence: Build strong, consultative relationships across all levels of a customer organization—from day-to-day champions to C-Suite stakeholders. You must be comfortable having direct, high-stakes conversations to drive alignment and value.
• Crisis Management & Poise: Act as the primary external point of contact for escalations. You remain poised under pressure, resolving complex issues with a sense of urgency and a calm, solution-oriented mindset.
• Strategic Advisement:   Serve as main point of contact for your customers on strategies to optimize adoption across their members, drawing upon your extensive knowledge of HealthJoy’s product and services, benefit industry domain knowledge, and best practices; and partner effectively with HealthJoy’s Product Solution Consultant team to effectively position marketplace solutions and ultimately expand account value;
• Data-Driven Leadership:  Leverage AI (Claude, Gemini) and best-in-class software to proactively dive deep into the performance across your book of business, enabling you not only to provide better thought leadership to your book of business, but also socialize the voice of your customers across internal HealthJoy stakeholders.
• Meticulous Execution: Maintain a high level of attention to detail regarding customer contracts, health scores, and stakeholder updates, ensuring no risk goes unnoticed.
• On-the-Road Partnership: Travel to meet with customers and their brokers throughout the year to conduct business reviews, deepen relationships, and solidify HealthJoy’s position as a long-term strategic partner.

Your experience.

• Benefits experience required. Experience working in benefits technology, health insurance or wellness technology is a great background for this role!
• Minimum 4-5 years of customer-facing account leadership or related experience demonstrating a high degree of skill in serving as a trusted advisor.
• Strategic and results-oriented approach to partnering with customers at all levels of an organization (individual contributor through C-Suite) to achieve desired outcomes.
• Demonstrated success managing customer retention and account growth within a book of business, or related experience negotiating contracts that would demonstrate proficiency managing commercial negotiations with limited oversight.
• Commercial Acumen: Proven ability to navigate a sales process, including overcoming objections, managing procurement/legal hurdles, and a "hunter" mindset for identifying expansion opportunities within a "farmer" role.
• Highly collaborative and influential with your teammates and business partners across the organization to drive results and innovation.
• Exceptional executive presence and ability to present complex or detailed information in a digestible and actionable manner. 
• Willingness to travel approximately 15-20% to support client book of business, as well as at a minimum quarterly to Chicago headquarters for internal team meetings as needed. We encourage local team members to come into the office on Wednesdays for shared work and collaboration time.

Total Rewards 

Job Level: 30

Base Compensation Range for Job Level: $100,000 - 110,000 Annually 

The cash compensation above includes base salary only. Certain roles are eligible for additional cash incentives such as commission, annual bonus targets, overtime pay or other variable incentives.

HealthJoy maintains a comprehensive strategy to determine rewarding and competitive packages for individual compensation for new hires, internal promotions and internal job changes. This strategy is based on several factors unique to each individual, including: 1) the skills, experience and qualifications of the individual; 2) the responsibilities and demands of the role; 3) analysis of external market data; and 4) company budget and financial performance. 

HealthJoy is a remote-first employer. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. 

At HealthJoy, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each role and individual. 

In addition to cash compensation, HealthJoy offers a rich “Total Rewards” package that includes:

• Medical, Dental and vision insurance packages
• HSA contribution match
• Stock options for eligible roles
• 401k match
• Paid parental leave
• Company sponsored Short Term and Long Term Disability coverage
• Flexible PTO 

Commitment to Equal Pay

At HealthJoy, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed and thrive.

We believe that everyone should be paid based on their qualifications, experience, and the work that they do, and not on their gender, race, or any other personal characteristic. Our compensation practices are essential to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where we value the contributions of all our employees. 

We conduct thorough annual reviews of employee pay and our pay practices to ensure we reward the right behaviors and are providing equal pay for equal work. 

Additionally, we assess the external market and internal equity across like roles. As part of our regular review of pay practices, HealthJoy examines employee pay for potential disparities between persons of different genders, races and ethnicities that are not explainable by objective factors such as performance, experience level, credentials, or location, and are committed to correcting any issues and reviewing practices from unintended outcomes.

Job Title: Research Professional – Oeindrila Dube (Full-Time, Benefits Eligible)

Location: Chicago, IL 

Salary Ranges: $55,000–62,000 annual salary, additional $2,000 professional development fund. The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.

Terms: Seeking a Research Professional for a period of at least one but ideally two years 

Projects: Projects include applying rigorous empirical methods to some of the most important questions in development economics and political economy 

Expected Start Date: July 1, 2026 

Department: Becker Friedman Institute  

Benefits Eligible: Yes. The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.

About the program

The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) is seeking a full-time Research Professional to work with Oeindrila Dube, Philip K. Pearson Professor at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. This is a hands-on research role applying rigorous empirical methods to some of the most important questions in development economics and political economy. 

The program is intended to serve as a bridge between college and graduate school for students interested in empirical economics. Applicants must have strong quantitative and programming skills. Candidates with research experience are strongly preferred, especially those with experience in Stata, R, Python or Matlab. The ideal candidate would work for BFI for one or two years before applying to graduate school in Economics or another quantitative social science. BFI offers competitive salary and employee benefits. 

Job Summary 

Can dialogue between warring groups reduce violence? And, how does media influence social and cultural norms? These are the kinds of questions driving this research, and we're looking for someone to help answer them. 

What you'll work on 

Two major projects form the core of this role: 

• Conflict and dialogue in Nigeria: In collaboration with James Robinson (UChicago) and Soeren Henn (U Wisconsin-Madison), we are analyzing the results of a large-scale field experiment studying how contact between warring groups affects farmer-herder violence in Nigeria's Middle Belt.  

• Impact of media on social norms and culture: In collaboration with Joshua Blumenstock (UC Berkeley) and Karrar Hussein (AUB) we are investigating how exposure to western media affect gender norms and gender inequality in an Islamic society. This project brings together novel big data sources and causal identification strategies to understand deep-rooted disparities. 

Who we're looking for 

The ideal candidate has strong quantitative training in economics or a related field and is genuinely curious about how political and social forces shape conflict, development, and gender inequality. Experience working with large datasets is central to this role.

Why this role? 

The position is intended to bridge the gap between the classroom and graduate school for students in empirical research through applied research work. Applicants interested in pursuing PhDs in Economics, Public Policy, or Political Economy are encouraged to apply. You will gain deep exposure to frontier empirical methods, receive mentorship from faculty, and contribute to projects with direct policy relevance. The collaborative nature of these projects also means you will interact with a broader network of leading researchers across institutions. This position provides access to UChicago coursework, allowing you to address potential gaps in academic background. 

Unit-preferred Competencies

• Proficient in writing replicable data files on Stata and/or R; experience with Python is a plus 
• Strong understanding of causal inference methods — randomized controlled trials, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, or related approaches  
• Experience working with large datasets, including cleaning and merging complex data from multiple sources 
• Congenial interpersonal skills required to manage projects, including scheduling and managing timelines.  
• Strong writing and communication skills to help prepare literature reviews, produce presentations, and write reports.  
• Excellent organizational skills 
• Attention to detail 
• Strong academic writing/communication skills

Minimum Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in economics, public policy, statistics or a related quantitative discipline

Experience

• At least one year of relevant research experience (coursework and school projects count)

Technical Knowledge/Skills

• Knowledge of R and/or Python preferred 
• Knowledge of STATA preferred 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Has experience designing survey instruments or accurately encoding survey data; 
• Experience with geospatial data is also a plus 
• Is comfortable with version control and collaborative coding (git/GitHub) 
• Has familiarity with the IRB process and applications 
• Has familiarity with AI-powered coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) 

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)
• Writing Sample (required)
• Transcripts (unofficial is acceptable) (required)
• Two Professional References (required)

About the Department  

The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics aims to foster frontier research and apply those findings to achieve global impact. BFI brings together researchers from the Booth School of Business, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, the Harris School of Public Policy, the Law School, and the entire University of Chicago Economics Community to leverage robust data, apply cutting-edge analytical tools, and uncover novel insights on the world’s most difficult economic problems. BFI then bridges the divide between academic researchers and relevant policy makers by translating and packaging rigorous research into accessible formats and proactively sharing those findings with decision-makers and thought leaders in business, government and nonprofit institutions. In this way, BFI has the potential to play a significant role in meeting the most difficult challenges facing the global community. 

The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or expression, national or ethnic origin, shared ancestry, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University’s Notice of Nondiscrimination.

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All offers of employment are contingent upon a background check that includes a review of conviction history.  A conviction does not automatically preclude University employment.  Rather, the University considers conviction information on a case-by-case basis and assesses the nature of the offense, the circumstances surrounding it, the proximity in time of the conviction, and its relevance to the position.

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Senior Sales Executive / Freight Forwarder Growth

Freight Forwarder Growth (New Logo + Existing Account Expansion)
Location: Chicago, IL
Reports To: Mike Anderson
Compensation: Total on-target earnings of up to $185,000 annually (base salary plus bonus potential)

About ITG Trans

ITG Trans, powered by Cargomatic, is a fast-growing logistics and transportation provider delivering reliable, flexible freight solutions nationwide. We partner with freight forwarders across multi-branch networks to provide scalable, high-performance transportation solutions.

As we enter our next phase of growth, we are investing in top-tier sales talent to accelerate new customer acquisition and expand share-of-wallet within our existing freight forwarder portfolio.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a high-performing sales leader who thrives in a hunter + farmer role. This position is responsible for winning new freight forwarder accounts while aggressively expanding volume and profitability within existing forwarder relationships. You will drive branch-by-branch adoption across forwarder networks and own the full sales lifecycle — from prospecting and pipeline creation through onboarding and account expansion — partnering closely with operations and customer support to ensure long-term success.

What You’ll Do

New Account Development (Hunting)

• Prospect, qualify, and close new freight forwarder accounts aligned to our ideal customer profile

• Build and manage a strong outbound pipeline via calls, email, networking, and referrals

• Conduct consultative discovery to understand operational needs and buying processes

• Develop proposals, pricing strategies, and service plans that drive profitable growth

• Own the sales process from first contact through first shipment stabilization

Existing Customer Expansion (Growth Focus)

• Drive volume and gross profit growth within current freight forwarder accounts

• Map forwarder organizations and identify additional branch decision-makers

• Onboard additional branches and expand adoption across forwarder networks

• Expand share-of-wallet by adding lanes, services, and repeat shipment programs

• Lead structured account growth plans with clear targets and next steps

• Coordinate internally to remove obstacles and accelerate expansion

Sales Execution & Collaboration

• Partner with operations and customer teams to ensure seamless onboarding

• Maintain clear communication during implementation and issue resolution

• Manage pipeline, forecasting, and account planning within CRM

• Stay informed on market trends, competitive positioning, and customer needs

What Success Looks Like

• Measurable growth in volume and gross profit across existing forwarder accounts

• Consistent onboarding of new branches within current customers

• Increased share-of-wallet through additional lanes and services

• Closed-won new forwarder accounts that become active shippers

• Accurate forecasting and a healthy, well-managed pipeline

What You Bring

• 5+ years of B2B sales experience in logistics, transportation, or supply chain

• Proven success in outbound prospecting and closing new business

• Experience selling into freight forwarders or building forwarder relationships

• Demonstrated ability to expand wallet-share within existing accounts

• Strong discovery, presentation, and negotiation skills

• Experience managing multi-stakeholder deals

• CRM proficiency and disciplined pipeline management

• Comfortable operating in a performance-driven environment

Preferred

• Existing relationships in the freight forwarder ecosystem

• Experience selling freight forwarding or LTL solutions

• Experience with mid-market and enterprise accounts

• Familiarity with structured sales methodologies (MEDDICC, SPICED, Challenger, etc.)

Benefits & Perks

At Cargomatic, we believe great people do their best work when they’re supported — professionally and personally. We offer a competitive benefits package designed to promote health, flexibility, and long-term growth, including:

• Competitive base salary + performance-based incentive compensation

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with multiple plan options

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Generous paid time off (PTO), including holidays

• Remote-friendly work environment with flexibility for field-based roles

• Career growth opportunities within a fast-growing logistics technology company

• Collaborative, entrepreneurial culture where performance and accountability are valued

• Tools and resources to support sales success (CRM, enablement, operational support)

Why Join ITG Trans

This role is central to ITG’s next phase of growth. You’ll have the opportunity to build meaningful forwarder relationships, expand multi-branch networks, and directly impact revenue growth in a high-visibility role within a growing logistics platform powered by Cargomatic.

If you’re a driven sales professional who excels at both winning new business and expanding strategic accounts, we’d love to connect.

Job Title: Research Professional (RP) 

Location: Chicago, IL 

Salary Ranges: $55,000–62,000 annual salary, additional $2,000 professional development fund. The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.

Terms: Seeking a Research Professional for a period of at least one but ideally two years 

Projects: The Research Professional will be collaborating with faculty on one main project, and provide additional support on a second.

Expected Start Date: July 1, 2026

Benefits Eligible: Yes. The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.

Department: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
 

Job Summary 

The Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) is seeking to hire a full-time Research Professional to work with Professors Erin Kelley, Greg Lane, and Fiona Burlig on ongoing and new research projects (listed below). The Research Professional’s responsibilities will span all stages of research, including collecting data of in both tabular and spatial formats, developing algorithms that clean and organize data, conducting statistical analyses, running simulations, and preparing manuscripts and presentations. Applicants must have completed a Bachelors degree by June 2026 and available to begin work in Summer 2026. Note, throughout this role, the projects and assignments are subject to change in line with the PIs’ research agendas.

Seeds of (climate) change: Private adaptation and subsidized insurance in West Bengal: Adaptation is required to cope with climate change. Theory predicts that agricultural insurance, which protects farmers against climate damages, and enjoys billions of subsidy dollars, may either increase or decrease private adaptation. Subsidized insurance may crowd in adaptation by limiting farmers’ risks from experimenting with new technologies. However, it may instead crowd out adaptation, by insulating farmers against climate risk. We test which of these effects dominates with an RCT in West Bengal, India. We randomize 300 villages into a control group and index insurance arms, where farmers receive payouts if floods occur. We estimate the impact of insurance on farmer willingness-to-pay for both flood-tolerant and high-yield-variety seeds, providing a direct test of the impacts of insurance on demand for adaptation. We also induce random variation in seed take-up, in order to estimate the effects of specialty seeds, insurance, and their interaction on agricultural inputs and ex post welfare outcomes.

The value of forecasts: Experimental evidence from developing-country agriculture: Climate risk is a key driver of low agricultural productivity in poor countries. We use a cluster-randomized trial to evaluate a novel risk-mitigation approach: long-range forecasts that provide information about the onset of the Indian summer monsoon well in advance of its arrival. In contrast to traditional ex post risk coping approaches, this novel ex ante technology provides accurate information significantly before the monsoon’s arrival, enabling farmers to alter major up front input decisions. Moreover, forecasts have the potential to be disseminated cheaply, even at scale. We assign 250 villages to one of three groups: a control group; a group that receives an opportunity to purchase the forecast; and a group that is offered insurance. This design allows us to investigate farmers’ willingness-to-pay for forecasts; how forecasts affect farmer beliefs, up-front investments, and welfare; and benchmark these effects against the canonical ex post loss mitigation tool: index insurance.

The program is intended to serve as a bridge between college and graduate school for students interested in empirical economics. Applicants must have strong quantitative and programming skills. Candidates with research experience are strongly preferred, especially those with experience in Stata, R, Python or Matlab. The ideal candidate would work for EPIC for one or two years before applying to graduate school in Economics or another quantitative social science. EPIC offers competitive salary and employee benefits. 

Unit-Specific Responsibilities

Data Collection

• Support survey design: participate in questionnaire design and brainstorming with PIs about the best way to capture the impacts of interest.
• Support primary data collection: program electronic questionnaires, design and run high frequency quality checks on raw data; liaise with field staff to resolve data issues and required clarifications

Data Analysis   

• Clean administrative and primary datasets and create all indicators required for analysis
• Write well-documented, reproducible code for data cleaning, descriptive statistics, regression analysis, data visualization, and any other analysis as per project needs; document all data work on the project’s GitHub repository
• Prepare push-button replication files academic papers and related outputs
• Manage databases, integrating various data sources (for example, project monitoring data, administrative data from local government, and household survey data). This may require programming matching algorithms, using spatial data to create linkages, performing manual matching, and linking up with field staff for additional information on specific tasks.

Preparing Policy Reports

• Conduct literature review and syntheses, contribute to impact evaluation reports and policy briefs, support the development of grant applications, and other writing and editing tasks
• Work alongside PIs to disseminate these reports

Unit-preferred Competencies

• Excellent data and data visualization is required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills required.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines required.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail required.
• Ability to work both independently and as a team member required.

Preferred Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in economics, computer sciences, math, or related STEM field (required).
• Master degree in Economics, Public Policy, Computer Science or related field (preferred).

Experience

• Relevant research experience, especially with data, preferred

Technical Knowledge/Skills

• Knowledge of R/Stata required
• Knowledge of SurveyCTO required
• Knowledge of LaTeX preferred 

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)
• Writing Sample (required)
• Transcripts (unofficial is acceptable) (required)
• Two Professional References (required)

About the Department  

The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), part of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth (ICSG) produces data-driven research that advances society's understanding of the global energy challenge and translates research insights into real-world impacts through strategic outreach and training for the next generation of global energy leaders. EPIC’s pre-doctoral fellowship program, part of the Becker Friedman Institute's Pre-Doctoral in Economics Program (PREP), serves as a two-year bridge program between college and a doctoral program.  Recipients gain an in-depth understanding of the entire research process while undergoing intensive career development as part of a close-knit community

The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or expression, national or ethnic origin, shared ancestry, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University’s Notice of Nondiscrimination.

Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-5800 or submit a request via Applicant Inquiry Form.

All offers of employment are contingent upon a background check that includes a review of conviction history.  A conviction does not automatically preclude University employment.  Rather, the University considers conviction information on a case-by-case basis and assesses the nature of the offense, the circumstances surrounding it, the proximity in time of the conviction, and its relevance to the position.

The University of Chicago’s Annual Security & Fire Safety Report (Report) provides information about University offices and programs that provide safety support, crime and fire statistics, emergency response and communications plans, and other policies and information. The Report can be accessed online at: http://securityreport.uchicago.edu. Paper copies of the Report are available, upon request, from the University of Chicago Police Department, 850 E. 61st Street, Chicago, IL 60637.