Overview

Position Title: Assistant Economist

Company: HM Treasury

Location: Kingston upon Hull, UK

Job Description:

Are you responsible for providing economic surveillance, delivering the evidence base to underpin macroeconomic and microeconomic policy and promoting professionalism for economics and social research in government?

Responsibilities:

  • Working together: Please demonstrate your ability to proactively build, maintain, and influence stakeholder networks and work collaboratively with others to deliver results.
  • Experience: Please demonstrate your ability to demonstrate knowledge of the macroeconomy or to independently tackle new challenges and work flexibly. Please list any relevant experience in either of these areas.
  • Making effective decisions: Please demonstrate your ability to analyse data using economic tools and techniques and apply this knowledge effectively to advise seniors and influence future decision making.
  • Delivering at Pace: Please demonstrate your ability to structure, plan, and prioritise a busy workload to deliver consistently high-quality work to a deadline.

Requirements:

  • Basic coding skills would be desirable to handle certain datasets but not crucial.
    Support HM Treasury’s overall assessment of structural change in the economy, bringing together the assessments from various individual channels.
  • Develop and utilise innovative data and advanced tools to analyse and monitor the changing structure of the UK economy.
  • Lead specific pieces of analysis on the potential changes to the structure of the economy resulting from COVID-19 and the associated policy responses, assessing the key challenges and opportunities that arise from such changes.
  • Assistant Economist, Structural Change AnalysisCollaborate closely with policy leads to ensure that policies are developed taking into account robust evidence and that analytical plans can respond flexibly to emerging policy development.
  • Communicate analysis on structural change to senior officials and Ministers.Engage with analysts across HM Treasury and externally to bring together analyses on structural change, ensuring that key messages and views across the Department are reconciled.

About HM Treasury

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.