Senior Assistant Economist

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

- 304456**Salary**:

- £39,428- National - £39,428.and London - £43,316**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DFT - Decarbonisation, Technology & Strategy Group (DTS) - Transport Decarbonisation**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Economist
- Strategy**Working pattern**:

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

- 3Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you an experienced economist with a strong background in appraisal and would like to influence decisions?

Can you deliver high quality analysis and can build effective positive working relationships?

Would you like the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary analytical team that has a direct impact on the journey’s individual’s make?

If so, we'd love to hear from you

**Job description**:
Future Transport Systems & Environment (FTSE) is a friendly, multidisciplinary analytical team made up of economists and social research/behavioural scientists. Our diverse portfolio of work covers self-driving vehicles, vehicle standards, climate change adaptation, air quality, modal choice and future of transport strategy.

FTSE’s purpose is to ensure that DfT can create a sustainable transport future by considering systems-level enablers, driving innovation and creating the right incentives, as well as setting effective regulatory and decision-making frameworks. Our policy areas have strong links to high priority Government strategies to deliver for the environment, make transport more inclusive and improve the transport user experience.

We are looking for three SEO Economists to cover one of the three areas:

- International Vehicle Standards (IVS)
- Environment, Adaptation, Systems & Strategy (EASS)
- Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV)

**Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Leading value-for-money and appraisal analysis, to provide expert advice with regards to impact assessments, business cases and delivering impactful outputs to influence complex policy areas
- Scoping out and delivering research to influence decision-making
- Identifying strategic evidence gaps and working with multidisciplinary teams to develop the evidence base
- Working independently and autonomously to deliver a portfolio of analytical projects
- Building strong relationships with policy colleagues, external stakeholders and consultants to deliver together
- Communicating with senior leaders in the policy and analytical teams, tailoring communication styles to ensure analysis and evidence has impact.
- Leading ad hoc analysis on topics of strategic importance to FTSE

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

**Person specification**:
**About you**:
To be successful in this role as a Senior Assistant Economist, we are looking for someone who will bring their expertise to continue unpicking and developing analysis of the regulatory and investment impacts of decisions being taken in policy.

You are someone who can communicate complex technical information to a wide range of stakeholders in non-technical terms, communicating with impact.

You will be a proactive team member who can work collaboratively to achieve progress on shared objectives.

**Additional Information**:
A minimum of 40% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

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

- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture

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

- Government Economic Service Framework - Level 2 Application of Knowledge
- Government Economic Service Framework - Level 2 Effective Communication

**Benefits**:

- Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.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.- Experience of building a strong evidence base to inform decision making, including scoping out and leading multi-disciplinary research projects
- Experience of developing, using and scrutinising analytical models for the purposes of assessing the impacts of policy proposals
- Experience of clearly and effectively communicating key messages and findings from complicated and incomplete evidence

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