Research Director - Economic Evaluation
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead high-quality economic evaluations and value-for-money assessments, including cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and economic impact assessments. Design approaches for collecting, analysing, and interpreting cost and economic data while developing robust models to assess programme costs, benefits, efficiency, and fiscal impacts. Provide senior technical input into bids, support pipeline development, and manage senior client relationships by advising on HM Treasury Green Book guidance and presenting findings clearly. Mentor colleagues, quality assure analytical outputs, and collaborate with researchers and academic partners to deliver multidisciplinary studies.
Required Qualifications
- An undergraduate degree in economics or a closely related discipline with a strong quantitative component
- Significant experience leading economic methods within policy research or evaluation settings
- Strong experience applying HM Treasury Green Book guidance or equivalent public sector appraisal frameworks
- Strong value-for-money expertise, including cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis
- Experience designing and leading economic appraisal, economic evaluation or modelling work in complex public policy settings
- A track record of leading or contributing significantly to successful bids for research contracts or grants
- Strong quantitative analysis skills, including experience using or overseeing analysis in tools such as Excel, Stata, R or equivalent
- The ability to communicate complex economic concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong project, budget, client and stakeholder management experience
- Experience leading teams, providing technical quality assurance and developing junior colleagues
- London | Hybrid (2-3 days in office)
Desired Qualifications
- A postgraduate degree in economics or a related discipline
- Experience analysing administrative or large survey datasets in areas such as health and wellbeing, education, employment, crime and justice, or related public policy areas
- Experience of quantitative impact evaluation methods, including randomised controlled trials or quasi-experimental designs such as difference-in-differences, matching or regression discontinuity
- Familiarity with process evaluations, theory-based approaches or large-scale quantitative survey design
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