Regulation Directorate Senior Assistant Economist
| Posting date: | 04 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,156 to £48,817 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £41,156 - £45,112 London: £44,942 - £48,817 Analyst allowances for badged GES members working in an analytical role are £4,245 annually. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 March 2025 |
| Location: | Belfast |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 394355/1 |
Summary
- Reform the stock of existing regulations to minimise bureaucracy and modernise regulation on the statute book
- Ensure the pipeline of regulation is necessary and proportionate, enabling analysis and scrutiny of new regulatory proposals from government departments, via the Better Regulation Framework.
- Ensure independent regulators deliver the right outcomes, with DBT driving a coordinated approach across government.
- Improve economic regulation by ensuring it supports growth and investment, promotes competition, works for consumers, and enables innovation.
When delivered effectively, regulation and the work of regulators plays a vital role in protecting consumers, the environment and setting the right frameworks for businesses to thrive. By enabling better regulation, we will ensure we maintain our high standards but can flex and adapt to the new technologies and challenges that the next few decades will inevitably bring.
We are looking for an ambitious senior assistant economist who is looking for significant stretch. This analytical role will support analysis as needed across each of these aims, subject to where analytical demand is greatest.
- Supporting the Regulation Directorate by developing the evidence base on the UK’s regulatory environment, proactively providing the insight required for policy development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
- Supporting with and leading on day-to-day analytical needs of the directorate, including keeping our understanding of regulated sectors up to date through analytical key lines and responding to quick requests like parliamentary questions.
- Working as an adaptable and flexible analyst across a number of work-streams and policy areas within a high-priority and highly visible directorate, bringing and explaining key economic theory and analysis central to the work of the directorate.
- Conducting analysis and economic impact assessments of any proposed changes to the UK’s regulatory regime, in a complex environment mixing regulated sectors and natural monopolies in essential industries which unlock economic growth
- Establishing and maintaining relationships across government analytical communities, ensuring the wider directorate is supported by relevant analytical findings from across government.
- Analysing and presenting complex issues to communicate findings to senior officials, Ministers, other teams within the department and across Government.
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