ECONOMIST JOB DESCRIPTION
Updated: Sep 26, 2025 - Join our prestigious economic team as an Economist, specializing in housing and labour market analyses with empirical methods. Your expertise will support our tradition of delivering insightful forecasts and assessing socio-economic impacts. With a focus on statistical analysis and database evaluation, alongside proficiency in Excel, you'll contribute to high-profile projects under tight deadlines, all while being a collaborative communicator in our dynamic environment.
An Overview of Economist Job Description Responsibilities and Qualifications
1. Seeking an analytical mind with a finance background for the Economist position. This role is pivotal in analyzing business trends, advising corporations and governments, and developing forecasting models. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to simplify complex economic concepts for a non-technical audience, requiring excellent communication skills.
Economist Functions:
- Provide support and develop approaches for conducting economic analyses.
- Assess social and economic impacts.
- Developing sampling design, compile and analyze economic statistics.
- Evaluate economic databases.
- Provide input on high-profile economic data.
- Develop and consult on research plans/projects.
- Develop indicators and performance measures.
- Report on analyses to inform stakeholder decision needs.
Economist Requirements:
- Strong quantitative, communication, including verbal and written, organizational and analytical skills.
- Ph.D. in economics or natural resource economics preferred
- Minimum of 10 years of substantial and progressive experience researching and developing a wide range of economic analyses, such as cost-benefit, cost effectiveness, valuation of ecosystem services, and value chain approach.
- Experience which includes the following: conducting research on economic phenomena, analyzing economic data, modeling economic systems, conducting market analyses, compiling databases, and preparing interpretive reports that address stakeholder economic decision requirements.
- Background related to microeconomics, macroeconomics, behavioral economics, and econometrics (or statistical analysis in general).
- Minimum education: Graduate degree in economics, or a related field with a concentration in economics.
- Experience with economic issues and analyses related to droughts and the impact to the economy
- Demonstrated experience in developing cost-benefit and return on investment analyses
- Demonstrated experience with market research approach and strategies
- Demonstrated experience in valuing market and non-market resources and services
- Demonstrated experience working on interdisciplinary teams.
- Previous experience with coordinating and engaging partners across multiple offices and agencies and engaging stakeholders to understand and address their decision-support needs with economic information, data, and analyses.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively to diverse audiences (including oral and written communication).
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