Senior Economist

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Office of Rail and Road Full time

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

- 351000**Salary**:

- £52,344 - £61,039- London: £56549 - £61039 or Regional: £52344 - £56933**Job grade**:

- Grade 7- Grade C**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- ORR - Strategy, Policy & Reform**Type of role**:

- Economist**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Team information**:
The team deals with all ORR’s statutory access and licensing casework and policy. This includes approving contracts to access track, stations and depots, connection contracts, and issuing licences and exemptions needed by all operators.

**Job description**:
**Job Purpose**:
This role may also have the opportunity to support analytical and wider economics projects within ORR, such as our reviews of access charges.

This role requires an economics professional who is able to draw on a strong background in economic assessment and analytical approaches. This role is part of the Economics profession and will have a dotted line to Head of Incentives and Reform in the Rail Economics team who will provide professional support.

**Person specification**:

- For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.**Qualifications**:

- Do you hold a Degree in economics or a discipline with a substantial quantitative component?**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together

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

- Analysis of data to produce data to inform decision makers
- Application of knowledge: a good understanding of, and ability to apply, economic principles to policy issues

**Benefits**:
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers Our people Office of Rail and Road (orr.gov.uk).

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.-
- This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
Job contact:

- Name:
- Esther Sumner
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