Economic Adviser for Labour Markets - The Guardian : Job Details

Are you looking for a great opportunity to work in a high-profile area with analytical challenge? If so, this could be the role for you!

About the Team

The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis team is a friendly team of around 30 outstanding analysts and policy makers located across London and Darlington offices. We seek to bring together an understanding of and advise on policy development related to households’ living standards, distributional analysis across different financial and demographic characteristics, and labour market outcomes. The work is at the centre of the government’s priorities to boost growth and overcome obstacles to opportunity.

HM Treasury’s Labour Market Analysis team conducts microeconomic analysis of the labour market, with a particular focus on employment policy, the labour market impacts of tax and social security policy, labour market regulation and the minimum wage.

We play an important role at fiscal events (such as Spending Reviews and Budgets), in informing ministers on the economic impacts of policy decisions. For example, our team’s Labour Supply Model – co-owned with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – has provided the evidence base at recent fiscal events for OBR judgements about the impact of policy on the supply side of the economy. The team’s work is also an important contributor to the Chancellor’s focus on the government’s Growth Mission and receives frequent ministerial interest in light on this.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Lead HM Treasury’s microeconomic analysis of the National Living Wage and Minimum Wage, providing expert advice to policy officials and ministers on the policy’s impact on the economy.
• Provide timely economic analysis and advice to HM Treasury on the impacts of social security policies and conditionality, as well as active labour market policies, often at a rapid pace.
• Contribute to evaluation of the real-world impacts of policies within the OBR and HM Treasury’s ongoing programme of policy monitoring and evaluation.
• Communicate analysis effectively, briefing senior officials, Ministers, and others.
• Line-manage 1-2 assistant economists, and work flexibly within a wider team of analysts, including close working with macroeconomist colleagues within HM Treasury and counterparts in other government departments.
• Build networks across HM Treasury, other government departments and external research organisations and academia, to ensure influence and a strong evidence base for the team’s work.

About You

For this role, analytical skills are what we are looking for above all; you don’t need to have been a civil servant or have advised ministers before. The relevant expertise could have been gained in academia, industry, or the charity sector, for example.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

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