Senior Assistant Economist: Carbon Centre of Excellence
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,241 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 October 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 431206/1 |
Summary
Have you worked on environmental or transport economics, contributing to business cases, appraisal guidance, or evidence to support major policy or investment decisions?
Do you want to be part of a high-profile analytical team at the heart of government, helping shape the UK's net zero transport strategy through evidence-based decision making?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.
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 DfT.
We’re seeking a Senior Assistant Economist to lead high-impact analysis shaping transport investment across the Department for Transport. You'll play a key role in supporting the UK’s net zero ambitions by improving business case quality, advancing appraisal guidance, and ensuring robust economic evidence underpins major decisions. Based in our expert Transport Appraisal and Strategic Modelling division, you’ll influence cutting-edge policy on decarbonisation, collaborate with academia and industry, and drive analytical excellence across sustainable transport initiatives.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Enhance the quality and consistency of carbon appraisals across a vast array of large transport investment decisions, spanning rail, roads, aviation, maritime, and active travel.Work with the Economics Centre of Excellence to ensure best practices in carbon measurement and valuation and maintain consistency across policies and projects.Providing expert advice and assurance to embedded analytical teams and Arms-Length Bodies on individual business cases, including for schemes such as Lower Thames Crossing and Northern Powerhouse Rail.Develop departmental abilities to appraise carbon impacts in line with the Green Book. Leverage innovative tools like blogs, videos, and modular learning content to disseminate knowledge.Identify cross-cutting strategic appraisal issues and challenges arising across DfT’s investment portfolio, providing advice on how these may best be tackled based on existing guidance and, where necessary, recommending ways to improve or fill gaps in guidance.For further information on the role, please read the 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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