# Senior Economist

**Company**: OFGEM
**Location**: Cardiff, Glasgow, City of Westminster, Wales, Scotland, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 49,452 - 62,699 per year
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

Ofgem's price cap protects around 22 million energy customers from unfair prices. We're looking for a Senior Economist to bring their expertise to this high-profile area of work and help ensure that protection continues to work for consumers as the energy market changes.

As a Senior Economist at Ofgem, you will contribute to fairer outcomes for individual consumers whilst helping ensure the energy market works effectively for the public. You will shape analytical work and influence significant policy decisions across economics, competition analysis, and financial evidence, working alongside specialists on some of the most important questions facing the retail energy market.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Developing and evidencing changes to price cap policy;

- Ensuring policy recommendations are based on robust and quality-assured economic analysis;

- Communicating policy proposals to internal and external stakeholders;

- Coordinating/managing a team of policy analysts to ensure the completion of team deliverables on time;

- Identifying interdependencies and working collaboratively with other experts across Ofgem.

**Person Specification:**

- Analytical skills – Strong quantitative skills using a range of methods and demonstrable experience of conducting complex analysis/modelling;

- Policy skills – policy analysis and policy writing skills with demonstrable application of those skills to policy development, consultation, decision-making processes, and implementation;

- Communication skills – the ability to communicate complex and often technical issues clearly and effectively with both experts and non-experts;

- Project and management skills – Evidence of shaping and leading analytical work programmes that support policy decisions, and successful management of major projects with fixed deadlines;

- Stakeholder management skills - ability to communicate credibly and effectively with stakeholders at all levels as part of a targeted stakeholder management strategy.

**Benefits:**

- Salary of £49,452 - £62,699 per year

- Contribution of £14,326 towards Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme

- 30 days annual leave after 2 years

- Excellent training and development opportunities

- Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office)

- Flexible working hours and family-friendly policies

## Skills

### Required
- economics
- quantitative analysis
- policy development
- communication
- stakeholder management

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