L7 - Senior Professional Economist

Knowledge

K7 Quality assurance techniques and sources of risks to quality of analysis

K8 Team's capacity to deliver - organisation specific processes for: securing additional resource from within and without the organisation; work planning and associated risk management techniques; and the demands from clients.

K9 The wider context affecting the work area and how changes might affect clients and analysis.

K10 Different communication styles and techniques; stakeholder theory; different ways of presenting data.

K11 Techniques to assess how future political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental developments could affect organisation, work programmes or clients

K12 Understand high level business objectives and strategy in order to anticipate demands for economic analysis

Skills

S4 Prioritise scarce resources, including own time, and focus work on areas of greatest impact; deploy project management techniques; negotiate for additional resources where appropriate; manage delivery risks; build and maintain relationships with colleagues and clients and develop and utilise internal and external networks

Behaviours

B2 Proactive: seeks opportunities to apply analysis to policy and business problems; seeks ideas for improvements, such as new approaches and/or methods; looks beyond the narrow confines of a problem or opportunity when producing analysis; is a passionate advocate for analysis; uses professional judgement and reaches conclusions even when evidence is incomplete.

B3 Collaborative: understands others point of view and adapts approach or ask; seeks to reconcile different views; builds trust with colleagues and clients; shares ideas and work with other professionals; respects and appreciates diversity; listens to others' points of view, however challenging; invites and considers feedback; aware of the impact of language and non verbal behaviour on others.

B5 Leadership: leads others, including outside organisational structures, to deliver outcomes.