Senior Economist
| Posting date: | 16 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £57,515 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National Salary: £57,515; London Salary: £62,034 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 October 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 432144/2 |
Summary
Do you have experience of demand forecasting, and could you confidently explain and present findings to a variety of audiences.
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.
This role offers an exciting opportunity within the Maritime and Aviation Appraisal and Modelling (MAvAM) team, part of the AMBA division. AMBA is a multidisciplinary group of around 50 analysts providing modelling, economic, and statistical expertise to inform aviation and maritime policy. The successful candidate will manage the National Air Passenger Demand Model (NAPDM), supporting key aviation forecasts. Team members collaborate flexibly across disciplines, working on high-priority Department for Transport (DfT) policies and engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Managing the National Air Passenger Demand Model (NAPDM) which is used to forecast unconstrained demand and feeds into other aviation models run within the team.Take the lead on the demand estimation element of updating and publishing aviation forecasts and work alongside fellow aviation modellers to produce these forecasts.Represent the department at the Multi-disciplinary Working Group on Long-term Traffic Forecasts (MDWG-LTF) within the ICAOFor 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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