Senior Assistant Economist International Aviation Decarbonisation
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,848 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 September 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 423616/1 |
Summary
Do you have a track record of delivering such analysis with purpose and to tight deadlines?
Have you a deep interest in applying your economics and analytical skills to shape the future of aviation environmental policy?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Aviation, Maritime and Borders Analysis Division is a multi-profession analytical hub providing a full suite of analysis services to Aviation and Maritime policy Directorates. It is a cohesive team with a strong ethos of multi-profession analysis and close joint working with policy professionals to deliver evidence-based robust policy outcomes. AMBA is led by a leadership team of two Deputy Directors and six Grade 6 team leaders.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at the UK Department for Transport: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers
You will play an essential role supporting the Economic Advisor: International Decarbonisation in providing robust and authoritative analysis to shape policy to accelerate decarbonisation of the aviation sector through negotiation of international agreements and development of market-based measures. You will become an integral part of the DfT’s aviation decarbonisation team alongside your policy colleagues.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Contributing to the delivery and further development of the Government’s Aviation Decarbonisation Strategy, including supporting analytical input to policy relating to Carbon Markets and RemovalsWorking closely with DESNZ analysts to support analysis of the treatment of aviation emissions in the Emission Trading Schemes (ETSs) including developing the scheme’s approach to Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGRs), and non-CO2 impacts, and the potential impact of linking the UK and EU Emissions Trading SchemesProviding analytical input to inform decisions on whether, and if so how to account for international aviation emissions in the UK’s Carbon BudgetsProviding analytical input to support UK efforts to secure international agreement to greater global action to reduce the environmental impact of aviation in negotiations at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), through strengthening ICAO’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)Support the Economic Adviser in contributing on behalf of the UK to ICAO technical working groups, potentially including work to monitor progress towards ICAO’s 2050 net zero target, assess options for tightening regulation of aircraft NOX emissions, work to model and evaluate aviation emissions and work to investigate the future supply, demand and price of greenhouse gas removals, as well as possible policy mechanisms that could be used to incentivise more removals, and allow the aviation sector to purchase them to mitigate its emissionsDeveloping and supporting research and analysis on other aviation environmental policies, the interaction between them and other policy options, including market-based and fiscal measures, analytical approaches to modelling them, and implementing these approachesFor further information on the role, please read the attached role profile.
Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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