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Economic Adviser

Posting date:	24 June 2024
Salary:	£51,997 per year
Additional salary information:	National Salary: £51,997 London salary: £56,844
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	04 July 2024
Location:	Birmingham
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	358305/1

Summary

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Do you possess the expertise to shape early policy thinking and engagement, delivering impactful economic analysis in a dynamic environment?

Can you lead a team to effectively prioritise and shape economic policies, ensuring high-quality analysis and evidence-based decisions?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

This is an exciting time to join a multi-disciplinary team in Motoring and Freight Insights (MFI) division which is part of the Motoring and Freight Directorate. Recent well publicised debates such as HGV driver shortage, electric vehicle take up, decarbonisation of road freight, costs of living, have brought road freight economic policy areas into sharp focus, and these areas are key priority for our directorate. Analysis is at the core of this and is highly sought after to ensure effective evidence-based decisions.

We are looking for an economist with a strong background in shaping and delivering high quality analysis for policy. You will have strong experience of doing appraisal and cost-benefit analysis, and be familiar with the Green Book principles (The Green Book (2022) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)). Experience in designing and delivering regulatory analysis, including impact assessments and de minimis assessments is desirable. You will also be confident determining approaches to bespoke analysis to shape early policy thinking and engagement, sometimes at pace, and informing stakeholders with advice using the best available evidence from a range of sources.

We are looking for someone with strong leadership skills to take ownership of their area, and effectively manage a complex programme of research and analysis. You will need to work closely with policy to understand priorities and ensure evidence feeds into the right decisions at the right time.

You will line-manage one operational researcher, and frequently task manage others. You will be passionate about supporting and developing junior analysts in their development and careers, and creating a supportive team setting which all can thrive in.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for a portfolio of economic analysis for Motoring and Freight strategy, mode-shift assessments as part of decarbonising the freight sector and achieve reductions in external costs of freight, including appraisal and cost-benefit analysis to inform Impact Assessments (IAs), De Minimis Assessments (DMAs) and business cases, as well as strategic analysis to shape policy thinking.
• Support and lead your team to effectively scope out policy requirements, provide support and judgement to ensure proportionate and targeted advice is given, and lead and inform prioritisation decisions to ensure your portfolio has maximum impact.
• Promote and champion the use of evidence and analysis in policy, as a visible analytical leader. Support effective decisions through your advice, even where the evidence is uncertain. Communicate with impact to senior policy colleagues and senior analysts, using the best available evidence and analysis. Forward plan to identify future evidence needs.
• Develop, manage and lead your team, creating a supportive environment in which all can thrive.
• Collaborate with other analytical professions to deliver the best possible evidence and advice.
• Maintain and develop leading approaches for analysing the impact of regulatory decisions, using transport analysis guidance (TAG) and the Green Book appraisal guidance.
• Support the wider team in providing quality assurance to ensure economic analysis remains fit for purpose.

Please see the attached role profile for an in-depth view of the post.

Economists at DfT

You will be part of a strong and active network of more than 150 economists across the DfT. There are central and embedded analytical teams, as shown below.

There is also an active wider Analytical Community in DfT which also includes economists, statisticians and social and operational researchers and holds regular events and training. We encourage continual professional development, with a mixture of internal and external training being supported.

The DfT is in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2021 and promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion for all.