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:
1. Making Effective Decisions
2. Communicating and Influencing
3. Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
4. Analysis of data to produce data to inform decision makers
5. Application of knowledge: a good understanding of, and ability to apply, economic principles to policy issues
Benefits
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%
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