Senior Assistant Economist


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£44,241 - £44,241
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Leeds
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	18 Aug 2026
Closing date:	1 Sept 2026

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Summary

Can you build trusting working relationships with stakeholders across the Department to deliver high quality analysis?

Do you enjoy turning complex and incomplete evidence into clear, evidence-based advice for decision makers?

Are you able to manage a busy portfolio of work?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DfTc

Join the International Vehicle Standards team and help shape the future of UK vehicle regulation. This role provides economic analysis to support new emissions, safety, cyber security and self-driving vehicle policies as part of a major legislative programme to modernise vehicle standards. Working within a supportive team of economists, policy professionals and engineers, you will develop the evidence base for high-profile regulations, international negotiations and wider road vehicle technology policy. It is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in legislation and ministerially significant policy development.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

Leading on the economic appraisal and modelling of specific new vehicle regulations
Developing a deep specialist understanding of the UK’s road vehicle standards regime to support the strategic case for its modernisation
Supporting and overseeing external contractors to deliver analysis and modelling of proposed UK policy
Leading ad hoc analysis on topics of strategic importance to IVS and DfT

Flexible resourcing

Colleagues are expected to work with a degree of flexibility, meaning responsibilities may change to support priority delivery.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile which is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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