Senior Economist - Economic Policy Evaluation

Senior Economist - Economic Policy Evaluation

Department: Social Research

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Leeds, UK

Reporting To: Korina Cox

Description

We are seeking senior economists with a background in economics or economic policy to manage a portfolio of research and evaluation projects primarily for our UK government clients. Our clients include central and local government, arms length bodies along with a range of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations and other funders. Depending on your knowledge and policy interests, you would lead projects in the areas of resilient economies (industrial transition and private sector development, research and innovation, digitalisation, trade) and climate, energy and environment.

What you will do

Senior economists take responsibility for managing medium and large scale research and evaluation contracts, working with Project Directors and research teams on a range of research and evaluation projects. You will be invited to participate in European or international projects collaborating with colleagues across Ecorys, and will design and implement evaluations, including developing sampling approaches, contributing to analysis of survey and or administrative datasets and producing reports and presentations. You will provide effective project and client management, plan and monitor delivery to agreed timescales, ensure quality and liaise with finance on budgeting and invoicing. In addition, you will work with directors and senior staff to grow the economics portfolio, support business development and client acquisition, develop partnership working opportunities, collaborate with external partners and build strong client contacts, and lead on client proposals.

Your profile

• You should hold a first degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience (economics, economic geography, etc) and hold post graduate, professional or vocational qualification in a relevant subject.
• You must have significant and demonstrable experience in the development and delivery of evaluations for economic and environmental programmes in the UK.
• You will have proven ability to acquire new work and secure repeat business from clients including the preparation of high quality tenders and proposals through excellent writing skills with evidence of strong commercial awareness.
• You will need to show strong evidence of effective project management including excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage complex, larger scale projects.
• Strong, applied economics research skills are a requirement, including experience of designing, conducting and analysing qualitative and quantitative data.
• Proficiency in MS Office is required; experience with R, SPSS or Stata is preferred.
• Experience of managing people, including having the capability to build and develop team knowledge and skills is desirable.

What we offer

• Salary: £41,917 - £62,050 dependent on experience
• London weighting: £3,500 per annum (for London based contracts)
• 25 days annual leave pro rata (plus bank holidays), increasing with service
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Company profit share scheme
• Pension, life assurance and wellbeing support, paid volunteering day
• Individual private health care
• Access to learning and development through the Ecorys Global Academy
• Opportunities for professional development and knowledge sharing
• A collaborative, supportive and inclusive work environment
• A modern, well equipped office with a welcoming atmosphere

Additional requirements: This role requires a DBS check and some UK travel.