Economic Consultant III

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Economic Consultant III Integrated with our traditional engineering design and construction services for the infrastructure marketplace, HDR provides unique economic, decision support analysis, and modeling services to aid our clients with their short- and long-range infrastructure policies, programs and investments. HDR is seeking an experienced, highly motivated and analytically oriented infrastructure economist to work in a dynamic team evaluating infrastructure projects for a variety of Federal, State and Municipal clients across HDR’s areas of practice. Our economics professionals offer decision support services that include cost-benefit analyses, econometric modeling and forecasting, statistical analysis, studies in economic development, risk analysis, financial analysis, policy and regulatory analysis, and related services.

Responsibilities

Technical:

• Conduct a broad range of economic and financial analyses including economic impact analysis, cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, or life-cycle cost analysis
• Apply industry-leading best practices for complex quantitative modeling
• Craft customized approaches to analysis, tailored to specific project needs
• Assess data quality based on analytical tools such as tabular statistics and based on previous project expertise
• Strengthen knowledge of economic techniques such as econometrics, forecasting, and data-driven support tools
• Work independently to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in fast-paced environment
• Start leading project tasks
• Develop a specialty and begin conducting relevant research and performing applicable data analysis related to area of specialization
• Start to participate in the quality review process to help deliver high caliber work products
• Support HDR project managers and staff as needed

Marketing (external and internal):

• Prepare and present analytical concepts to diverse audiences (both internal and external) in a clear and compelling manner
• Collaborate with diverse internal teams (including engineers, architects, and others) to receive and prepare data and inputs needed for analysis
• Start to develop relationships with internal and external clients
• Support internal and external marketing efforts

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree preferred in Economics or related field
• Experience with analytical packages and/or programming languages (SAS, Eviews, SPSS, Visual Basic, R, Python, etc.)
• Preference is given to local candidates

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• A minimum of 5 years equivalent experience with an emphasis on the application and interpretation of research
• Experience in conceptualizing and developing economic or business models using analytical methods
• Knowledge of economic/econometric methods is needed
• Experience with analytical packages and/or programming languages (SAS, Eviews, SPSS, Visual Basic, etc) and excellent knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
• Ability to interact with clients on a regular basis
• Duties require a sound knowledge of economic and econometric methods
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

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