Aps Economist

Unique opportunity to join a prestigious government department
- Rolling opportunities in evolving and emerging markets

**About Our Client**:
Our Client provides foreign, trade and international development policy advice to the Government, and works with other government agencies to coordinate Australia's pursuit of our global, regional and bilateral interests. Our Client has a dedicated and professional workforce.

Its officers are highly skilled at their work, which includes developing and implementing policy, negotiating international agreements, delivering high-quality international development assistance, providing professional corporate management support and delivering high quality consular and passport services to Australian travellers.
- The core capabilities of the APS4 and APS5 roles will require you to:* support senior staff in developing team objectives for short term tasks and strategic
- planning for longer-term initiatives; and- build, maintain and facilitate engagements with a wide network of stakeholders

(international networks and business contacts) to support senior officers in shaping
- domestic economic policy agendas and Australia's international engagement.
- The technical capabilities of the APS 4 and APS5 roles will require you to:
- support senior staff to provide advice across the department's development, trade

and investment programs, including technical and policy advice on economic policy,
- research and development trends;- undertake analysis on elements of moderately complex economic development

and/or trade issues and produce economic advice that supports the department's
- trade, investment and foreign policy priorities; and- leverage research methods and tools to analyse, interpret and draw

conclusions from a range of data and statistics to provide compelling and
- accurate analysis and graphics.
- APS5 officers will be expected to undertake such duties with greater discretion, and more
- autonomy and guidance compared to APS4 officers.
- The core capabilities of the APS6 roles will require you to:* contribute to the development of team objectives for short-term tasks and
- strategic planning for longer-term initiatives;- ensure that priorities and output of the work area align with business

needs, departmental objectives and longer-term strategies; and- build, maintain and facilitate engagements with a wide network of

stakeholders (international networks and business contacts) to shape
- domestic economic policy agendas and Australia's international
- engagement.
- The technical capabilities of the APS6 roles will require you to:
- leverage research methods and tools to analyse, interpret and draw

conclusions from a range of research and data to provide compelling and
- accurate analysis and graphics;- employ judgement and analytical acumen to produce economic advice and

undertake analysis on elements of complex economic development and/or
- trade issues to support the department's trade, investment, development
- assistance and/or foreign policy priorities; and- support senior staff to provide advice across the department's

development, trade and investment, and country programs, including
- technical and policy advice on economic policy, research and development
- trends.
- APS6 officers will be expected to undertake these duties with a high level of discretion and
- autonomy. An APS6 officer may also be required to supervise other staff.
- _As an EL1 specialist economist, you will be required to:_

provide leadership within DFAT 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.**The Successful Applicant**:
**PLEASE NOTE: To be eligible for these roles, you **_must_**:

- ** Be an Australian Citizen,**:

- ** Hold a current AGSVA NV1 clearance**

In addition, respective to your applied level:

- Tertiary qualifications in economics or a related discipline are mandatory.
- In addition, you will generally have at least three years' experience working as an economist
in the public or private sector. Familiarity with Australia's trade, foreign and development
interests from a wide range of previous experie