Senior Economist

Office of Rail and Road

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Reference number

351000

Salary

£52,344 - £61,039
London: £56549 - £61039 or Regional: £52344 - £56933

Job grade

Grade 7
Grade C

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

ORR - Strategy, Policy & Reform

Type of role

Economist

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, York

Job summary

Team information

The team deals with all ORR’s statutory access and licensing casework and policy. This includes approving contracts to access track, stations and depots, connection contracts, and issuing licences and exemptions needed by all operators.

Job description

Job Purpose

This economist role will be responsible for all economic assessment and economic policy advice for the Access, Licensing & International team. This includes leading our economic assessment of applications for use of the railway, supporting our international policy work and leading analytical work within the team. The role will provide expert economic and analytical advice on policy proposals and contribute to the assessment of impact of different policy options.

This role may also have the opportunity to support analytical and wider economics projects within ORR, such as our reviews of access charges.

This role requires an economics professional who is able to draw on a strong background in economic assessment and analytical approaches. This role is part of the Economics profession and will have a dotted line to Head of Incentives and Reform in the Rail Economics team who will provide professional support. 

Person specification

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Qualifications

Do you hold a Degree in economics or a discipline with a substantial quantitative component?

Behaviours

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

  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together

Technical skills

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

  • Analysis of data to produce data to inform decision makers
  • Application of knowledge: a good understanding of, and ability to apply, economic principles to policy issues

Details of our employee benefits can be found in the attached Candidate Information Pack.

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers Our people Office of Rail and Road (orr.gov.uk).

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
For information on the selection process, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack and Job Description.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Esther Sumner
  • Email : Esther.Sumner@orr.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : hr.recruitment@orr.gov.uk

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