Economic Advisor - Lower Thames Crossing Analysis
| Posting date: | 02 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £57,515 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National - £57,515 London - £62,034 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 450653/1 |
Summary
Do you enjoy working across multidisciplinary teams, applying Green Book guidance and communicating complex analysis with clarity and confidence?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
The Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) is the largest improvement project in the enhancements portfolio and is key to the Government’s growth agenda. At the Autumn Budget 2025, the Chancellor confirmed that the project will proceed on the basis of a Regulated Asset Base (RAB) structure - a private sector entity will build and finance the Crossing with charges levied on users being subject to economic regulation.
We are currently recruiting for two Economic Advisors. These roles are well-suited to individuals with experience supporting project and policy delivery through major investment decisions or legislative and regulatory change. We are looking for candidates with strong expertise in the Business Case or Better Regulation frameworks, as well as appraisal and Option and Impact Assessment methodologies. The exact portfolio of each Economic advisor is open for discussion and can be tailored to individual interests.
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!
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The postholders will work closely with the Lower Thames Crossing Sponsorship policy team, CofE teams across the Dept, the Transport modelling and appraisal team in the Dept, the National Highways project team and technical consultants. This will include colleagues at senior levels including the Chief Analyst.
You will be embedded in a multi-disciplinary team, REME, (Roads Economics, Modelling and Evaluation), and work closely with economists, transport modellers and economic consultants. REME is a friendly and inclusive team, with a strong focus on learning and sharing expertise. We use our multi-disciplinary expertise across economics, social research and transport modelling to provide creative and innovative analytical insights and assurance in policy making - helping make travelling on roads smoother, safer and cleaner – now and for the future. The team aims to ensure that relevant, robust and trusted evidence is at the centre of policy making, lessons are learnt through analysis, and that investment decisions provide value for money.
Key duties and responsibilities include:
- Providing leadership in the development and delivery of the appraisal for the Lower Thames Crossing project as it progresses through the Outline and Final Business Case stages - including line-managing a junior economist, supporting their professional development, maintaining a robust analytical plan, and allocating work effectively.
- Providing leadership to the legislative and/or regulatory policy work required under the potential scheme delivery options including leading of the required impact assessments.
- Building a close working relationship with technical advisors, while driving performance and providing critical challenge to maximise assurance.
- Applying DfT’s established Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG) and HM Treasury’s Green Book in novel contexts to provide clear Value for Money advice on options, while engaging with those teams to identify limitations in current Green Book and TAG guidance - along with challenges raised by the RAB model - and contribute to shaping how this guidance should evolve.
- Understanding and scrutinising outputs from sophisticated modelling tools, to ensure decisions are taken with the best possible evidence, and a clear understanding of analytical assurance.
- Communicating complex issues to a variety of technical and non-technical audience.
- Working collaboratively with the policy and sponsorship team to shape economic analysis and influence wider workstreams via inputting relevant economic theory and developing updated evidence through research and evidence gathering.
- Working collaboratively across organisational boundaries, including with external consultants, OGDs such as His Majesty’s Treasury and LTC analysts to support joint analysis and ensure timely delivery of high-quality outputs.
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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