Economist Jobs

Summary

As an Economist and analyst within a DOT agency or headquarters, you will be responsible for conducting and managing economic and financial analyses required for the assigned studies and research projects.

Duties

As an Economist at the full performance level, you will:

• Serve on interdisciplinary teams as a member or as a working team leader.
• Define projects based on problems identified by research sponsors, management, or senior staff, and plan the study, coordinate the execution, and report on the outcome.
• Conduct economic research, analyze and interpret economic data, develop estimates of benefits, and report the results of findings under the guidance of a senior Economist.
• Communicate and present economic concepts and quantitative data, orally and in writing, especially to non-technical audiences and work collaboratively with other economists and with senior-level executives.
• Conduct surveys to obtain economic data, relate previously submitted data to current conditions, and determine the relations of pertinent economic factors for well-defined projects.

The ideal candidate for this position enjoys and excels at applied, data-driven research. Flexibility, creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take initiative will help to find--or to create--the projects that analyze data using relevant economic methods, such as market assessment, benefit-cost, or other economic analysis and identify implications of the findings as they relate to a transportation-related issue. The flexibility to adjust your analyses in your policy conversations with your leadership and others involved will ensure your research is effective in shaping policy choices. Good time-management skills to enable you to juggle inevitably competing and changing demands and priorities in a dynamic economic policy environment.