The Research Officer will conduct research within the areas of regional growth, industrial diversification, and the labour market under the new research programme launched at the Hellenic Observatory led by the Centre Director, Prof. Vassilis Monastiriotis, as well as independent research on themes relevant to the Hellenic Observatory’s research cluster on Economy & Public Policy. The post-holder will be involved in all stages of research, from data collection and analysis to writing academic papers and policy digests and will be expected to contribute to policy engagement and other support activities of the programme (including applications for external funding). The successful candidate will have a PhD in Economics or a related discipline, experience with specialist statistical software (including Stata and R), and a good working knowledge of applied micro-econometrics, including counterfactual methods for impact analysis.