Senior Advisor - Economic Development/Business Case

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Job Description

Senior Advisor - Economic Development / Business Case

Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation.

Together with our partners, we provide insights and solutions that address complex problems, provide societal outcomes, and benefit our communities. Our team is passionate about helping clients solve complex infrastructure, development and movement challenges facing our communities. Taking a One GHD approach, we work together to deliver innovative solutions across the lifecycle of all asset classes.

We are proud to be global. Our diversity of knowledge and perspective makes us stronger, smarter, and more understanding of the complex issues confronting our clients. As the world becomes more connected, our team will leverage its global experience to deliver socially impactful solutions.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an experienced senior economist with 7+ years of experience to lead delivery and support in the winning of economics projects across EMEA. This role will be a project manager and technical lead for high profile economics and business case projects primarily in the UK but also supporting projects in the Middle East. We are looking for an economist with strong fundamentals, a good understanding of the HMT Green Book and experience of delivering economic analysis for public sector clients in the UK. This role requires a self-starter able to work independently across our business and find the opportunities to grow the economics and business case pipeline through both internal and external business development activity.

Your responsibilities would include:

• Leading economics projects as the Project Manager, including managing a project team and reviewing team members work, accountable to the Project Director.
• Provide economic and business case advice to our clients, supporting complex problem solving.
• Provide technical support and direction on projects as required.
• Provide technical support and direction on tenders/bids or proactive client proposals.
• Work collaboratively with other GHD staff and our clients, sharing information, ideas, and knowledge.
• Managing your personal contribution to the team, including providing mentorship and guidance to junior staff.
• Supporting the vision and strategic plan for GHD Advisory. This includes GHD Advisory's market presence, prominence, and market share.
• Pursuing professional development opportunities.

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

• The ability to lead on designing economic appraisal methodologies based on HMT Green Book guidance for clients.
• Have experience and a successful track record of delivering economic and business case advice within a management consultancy, infrastructure owner, regulator, operator, or public sector.
• Expertise in some/all of the following: Cost Benefit Analysis, Whole Life Cost analysis, writing Business Cases based on the 5 case model, developing and QA-ing high quality excel models, developing Theories of Change, running stakeholder engagement.
• Degree qualification. Post graduate degree would be an advantage.
• Strong client service focus, generating repeat business through excellent project delivery.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) that enable productive engagement and sustainable collaboration with colleagues and clients.

What behaviours you will bring to the team:

• Ability to adapt to change and confidence to work effectively in a high-energy, fast-moving environment.
• Goal-oriented and a problem-solving mindset coupled with the ambition to develop and thrive.
• Good interpersonal skills; e.g. relates well to colleagues, clients and business contacts, and can influence to achieve positive results.
• Assertiveness / willing to take the initiative, e.g. drives projects forward proactively, makes things happen, has a "can do" attitude and presents possible solutions to more senior staff.
• Willingness to learn to improve the spectrum of technical and softer skills required from a good consultant.

What's in it for you:

We are committed to the success of our people which is why we want to create the best employee experience that supports each member through all the stages of their career. Here is what we offer:

• A competitive salary
• A comprehensive benefits package; pension, medical insurance, income protection, 25 days holiday with the option to buy an additional 4 weeks
• Enhanced parental leave
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - cycle to work, discounted gym membership, season ticket loan, discounts on retail & wellbeing classes
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• Wellbeing resources and tools, and demonstration of our commitment to wellbeing by signing up to the Mental Health at Work Commitment
• Team led flexible working
• Opportunities to grow your skills and shape your career towards technical expertise, developing the market or leading a business or team.
• International, multi-cultural team of highly motivated individuals

Interested? Please hit the apply button.

At GHD, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD aims to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to gender reassignment, age, disability, religion, or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, or race.