Environmental Economist

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 347594**Salary**:

- £39,150 - £43,280- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- CEFAS - Science**Type of role**:

- Economist
- Science**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- This vacancy is based at our site in Lowestoft.About the job

**Job summary**:
The social and economic advice team at Cefas conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary research on the marine and coastal environment. Providing advice in support of Defra’s coastal and marine environmental policies, natural capital accounting projects in addition to contributing to national and internationally funded research in collaboration with academic and other research institutes, especially the University of East Anglia and their Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE).

Within the interdisciplinary remit of research in Cefas and of the social and economic advice team, you will be required to lead national and international research on the human environment interface covering topics including environmental economics and natural capital accounting, marine and coastal spatial planning, environmental psychology and sustainable resource management.
- and late-career changers with transferable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

**Job description**:
Your main duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

- Developing and conducting economic research into the coastal and marine environment;
- Leading** **on economic and statistical analyses, as well as study design and implementation of environmental valuations using stated and/or revealed preference methods;
- The construction of natural capital accounts using collected and modelled quantitative socio economic and biophysical data;
- Ensuring high data quality and recording standards;****:

- Supporting the development of new business opportunities and writing research proposals both within Cefas and the wider national and international research community;
- Communicating science/research outcomes to a range of stakeholders using a variety of media (incl. peer-reviewed scientific publications, presentations, briefings etc.).

In addition, Cefas reserves the right to ask staff to take on additional duties and responsibilities which are commensurate with their grade. Team Leaders and management will have a discussion with staff to explain the changes that are to be made. A new job description will be issued if required.

**Person specification**:
The following are essential criteria required for this role and you must be able to demonstrate your skills and experience in the following areas:

- Excellent econometric and statistical skills;
- Substantial research experience in environmental economics;
- Good knowledge of economic theory (applied to environmental economics) and the data challenges associated with its analysis in an interdisciplinary setting (e.g. within biological and ecological systems);
- Being flexible and able of working on multiple projects at the same time and to adapt to various activities and committed, with the ability to work as part of a team, but also unaided to organise own work to meet deadlines;
- Excellent communication skills verbally and written;
- Experience in leading the publication of peer-reviewed papers;
- Excellent time management;
- Willing to mentor and support others in the team;
- Being flexible, able to adapt to various activities and commitments at the same time, with the ability to work as part of a team, but also unsupervised to organise own work to meet deadlines; and
- An MSc or equivalent masters degree in environmental economics or a closely related discipline and ability to demonstrate having previous work experience in a related field of work (e.g. statistics; ecological economics etc), or a PhD in (environmental) economics or a closely related topic. However, if the applicant doesn’t meet these qualification then being able to demonstrate having relevant work experience and meeting the criteria in this person specification will be considered.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Developing Self and Others
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
- Developing Self and Others

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Excellent applied econometrics experience in designing and analysing stated and/or revealed preferences surveys (e.g. choice modelling, contingent valuation, and travel cost/random utility models).
- Sound applied statistical and economic anal