Deloitte Access Economics - Director Economist

Job Requisition ID: 39433

• Be part of market-leading projects with global scale and complexity
• Enjoy 18 weeks paid parental leave plus 12 months of return-to-work support (work 4, get paid 5)
• Belong to a workplace that values diversity, equity and inclusion

Are you excited about leading teams and overseeing economists applying research, analytical, modelling and forecasting skills to some of the most pressing issues facing the Australian economy?

What will your typical day look like?

As part of the ongoing growth and success of our business, an opportunity has arisen for a Director / Associate Director to join our Sydney team of our DAE national transport sector business. As part of this role, you will have a leadership role within a national team to grow our research, consulting, economic assessment and forecasting capabilities across a number of areas including:

• Various aspects of transport and infrastructure – business cases, strategy and economic impact analysis
• Emerging technologies and decarbonisation e.g. batteries, hydrogen, autonomation, drones, Mobility as a Service etc
• Policy areas such as the decarbonisation, emissions reduction, renewables, transport policy and economic development

This role will be for a person with a significant quantitative background, which will see you leading teams working with datasets, both temporal and spatial. You will be a key senior member of a national team to enhance our current capabilities and contribute both management and technical skills to widely varying project work for public and private sector clients.

The role will see you working in a dynamic environment focused on empowering staff to work on a wide variety of projects. You will be recognised for your merit and will have the opportunity to challenge yourself by:

• Growing our capabilities and working closely with existing clients
• Applying your technical and analytical skills to provide specialist oversight on projects
• Using your leadership skills across project management, business development and team building
• Working with subject-matter experts across Deloitte
• Advancing the teams’ skills in research, data analytics, modelling and reporting in an eminent economics practice.

About the team

You will join Australia’s largest team of economists in delivering rare insights to help public and private sector organisations plan for the future. We offer economic and policy advisory services to clients across government and the private sectors, and pride ourselves on providing the highest calibre analysis and advice. Every single day with Deloitte Access Economics (DAE) is different. Our Transport sector team works in all States and territories as well as internationally and is led by some of Australia’s leading public sector and transport economists.

The team is within the larger DAE business which works across a variety of topics (e.g. education, civil government, education, transport, infrastructure, media and technology etc.) and policy, and offer services including policy formation and validation, business case development, strategy advice, cost benefit analysis, economic impact assessment and program evaluation.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you.

Ideally, you will have a decade or more experience in the transport / infrastructure across areas including sector public policy, economic research, data analysis or modelling and forecasting, and experience in program and project evaluation, policy assessment, investment planning as well as operational data and statistics. Knowledge of and interest in the transport and infrastructure sectors is expected.

You will bring a combination of the following skills, attributes and experiences to our team:

• An undergraduate degree with a quantitative focus is essential (e.g. economics, statistics, mathematics)
• Experience in economics, public policy and economic development, ideally in consulting
• Team leadership experience and ideally, good understanding of business development in the consulting sector
• Strong attention to detail, and be driven to look for solutions and solve problems
• Most importantly, you must have a desire to grow the business and provide leadership in multi-disciplinary team environment.