Economist - London, United Kingdom - Office of Rail and Road

Office of Rail and Road

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £39,425 - £46,676

London or Regional
Job grade:

Senior Executive Officer

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Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
ORR
Economics, Finance & Markets
Type of role:
Economist
Working pattern:
Fulltime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, YorkAbout the job

Job summary:

ORR's Regulatory Economics team is a mixeddiscipline team working on a diverse range of economic and policy issues, concerned both with leading development of rail policy and providing specialist advice

Job description:

The Regulatory Economics team works on a diverse set of economic issues, providing rigorous analysis to underpin the development of policy and support decisionmaking. Much of our work is directed at the regulation of Network Rail, including designing the regimes for access charges and incentive payments; and conducting cost analysis, benchmarking it against comparator companies and analysing its efficiency.

Person specification:

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description

Qualifications:

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
Delivering at Pace

Technical skills:

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

Application of knowledge: a good understanding of, and ability to apply, economic principles to policy issues
Analysis of data: be highly numerate, and comfortable working with data and spreadsheets.

Benefits:

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

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Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security:

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 Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

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