Economist - El1

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

Our client is a significant government department looking for highly motivated economist to work across various divisions.
- Industrial Relations
- Energy Markets
- Public finance and budget processes
- Multi-national tax and the recovery of tax from multi-national corporates
- Industry policy

EL1 specialist economist, you will be required to:

- provide leadership, including through the role as an assistant director of a section;
- lead complex economic analysis, advice and briefing support on domestic, global, regional and bilateral economic issues relevant to the department’s trade, investment and foreign policy priorities;
- provide insight to/from international networks and business contacts to shape domestic economic policy agendas and Australia’s international engagement;
- provide leadership to the Office of the Chief Economist’s program of modernising data management, analysis and visualisation, using PowerBI / DAX and, in the medium to longer term, potentially R, Python and/or Stata (familiarity with these languages is desirable, but not essential); and
- influence key policy debates within the department and across the Australian Government, including on trade and investment, competitiveness, and international climate change negotiations.

**ing for this role**
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