Economist

APS Level 4, APS Level 5, APS Level 6
- Adelaide, SA; Alice Springs, NT; Bendigo, VIC; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Darwin, NT; Hobart, TAS; Mackay, QLD; Melbourne, VIC; Newcastle, NSW; Orange, NSW; Perth, WA; Rockhampton, QLD; Sydney, NSW; Townsville, QLD
- $82,039 to $111,979

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’- where our people reflect our purpose.

**The Role**
We are looking for highly capable economists to join us in the newly established Office of the Chief Economist. The Office plays an In-House Consulting role, undertakes a range of Own-Initiated Research, along with other economic related responsibilities. As such it works on the most economically interesting and complex parts of the department’s responsibilities.

You will have the opportunity to utilise your economic expertise to work on a wide range of interesting economic work related to the Australian labour market and labour market policy. Your work will influence Government and the department’s executive, be frequently at the forefront of Government policy debates, and will help to drive high quality policy and program outcomes for the Australian public.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the position, under the guidance of a Senior Economist or Director may include utilising your economic expertise to:

- Undertake quantitative analysis, including econometric analysis, on a range of data sets related to labour market issues. For example, the department utilises the Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA), Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA), and other data assets, to consider the impact of policies and programs.
- Provide verbal and written economic advice to the workplace relations, skills and employment program groups of the department on matters of policy interest. This may include providing line areas of the department with economic frameworks for consideration policy issues.
- Undertake detailed longer term economic research on issues of strategic importance to the department and government.

**Qualifications and Education**
A degree in economics, preferably with an honours year. A post graduate qualification in economics will be highly regarded but is not required. The ability to use statistical software (such as R or Python) is also required.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 500 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Don’t meet all the role requirements?**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.