Economic Consultant

**Description**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
As an Economic Consultant, your responsibilities will include:

- Working alongside other economists and a wide range of macroeconomic consulting engagements for the public sector in the Middle East. This includes being involved in the entire project lifecycle, from contributing to proposal preparation and pitching, to client management, project execution, and delivering high-quality project deliverables.
- Managing and developing junior economists hired to the Government Advisory team. This will involve providing training and overseeing their consulting work.
- Supporting Oxford’s macro analysis for the Middle East region in terms of country economic forecasting, reports and research.
- Supporting the business development team and Associate Director of Government Advisory to expand our consulting and subscription business in the public sector in the Middle East. You will provide support to more senior colleagues to enable them to present Oxford's capabilities in sales meetings, guide prospects to appropriate solutions, and support the sales team in client presentations and calls.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- **Educational Background**: A degree in economics, public policy, or a related field.
- **Experience**: A minimum of 2-3 years of experience in economic advisory, public sector consultancy or within the public sector, ideally (but not essential) with a focus on the GCC.
- **Client Engagement**: Proven track record of working within or for public sector entities, providing one or more of the following: economic policy and strategy advice, impact assessment, and risk analysis.
- **Project Management**: Experience in managing whole or parts of economic consulting projects, including writing proposals, project execution, client relations, delivering high-quality deliverables and meeting client deadlines.
- **Analytical Skills**: Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to conduct economic research, data analysis, and develop insights and policy recommendations. Previous experience in using applied macroeconomics models for forecasting, scenario and/or policy impact analysis would be advantageous.
- **Communication Skills**: Excellent presentation and reporting skills, especially using Microsoft PowerPoint, with the ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, complex economic concepts to both specialists and non-specialists.
- **Teamwork and Time Management Skills**: Ability to work effectively in teams and to tight deadlines.
- **Regional Expertise (desired, not essential)**: Knowledge of the economic and policy landscape in the GCC, including an understanding of the key sectors and government initiatives.
- **Language Skills (desired, not essential)**: Proficiency in Arabic would be advantageous.

**Why join us?**:
At Oxford Economics, we offer:

- **Competitive Compensation**:

- A competitive salary, performance-related bonus, private health insurance, and 25 days of annual leave (rising to 30 days after one year), plus public holidays.
- **Career Development**:

- Opportunities for accelerated professional growth, working on impactful projects with a global and diverse team of experts.
- **Flexible Work Environment**:

- A hybrid work arrangement, balancing office and remote work to support a healthy work-life balance.
- **Dynamic Opportunities**:

- Frequent travel and on-site client engagement, offering exposure to high-profile government advisory projects and decision-making in the region.

**About Oxford Economics**:
Oxford Economics was founded in 1981 as a commercial venture with Oxford University’s business college to provide economic forecasting and modelling to UK companies and financial institutions expanding abroad. Since then, we have become one of the world’s foremost independent global advisory firms, providing reports, forecasts and analytical tools on more than 200 countries, 250 industrial sectors, and 7,000 cities and regions. Our best-of-class global economic and industry models and analytical tools give us an unparalleled ability to forecast external market trends and assess their economic, social and business impact.

Headquartered in Oxford, England, with regional centres in London, New York, and Singapore, Oxford Economics has offices across the globe in more than 15 cities. We employ more than 400 professional economists, industry experts and business editors—one of the largest teams of macroeconomists and thought leadership specialists. Our global team is highly skilled in a full range of research techniques and thought leadership capabilities, from econometric modelling, scenario framing, and economic impact analysis to market surveys, case studies, expert panels, and web analytics.
- Oxford Economics is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religi