Job opening: Climate and Energy Economist
Salary: $120 000 - 160 000 per year
Published at: Sep 27 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
"DO NOT APPLY THROUGH USAJOBS or EMAIL- APPLY ONLINE AT www.cbo.gov/careers"The Congressional Budget Office is a small nonpartisan agency that provides economic and budgetary analysis to the Congress. The Energy, Climate, and Environment Unit is seeking one or more economists to analyze the effects on the federal budget and the economy of climate change, policies to mitigate or adapt to climate change, and related issues.
Duties
The successful candidate will contribute to the full range of the division's responsibilities-developing quantitative models to analyze legislation and policy areas of interest to the Congress, conducting economic analyses, and writing reports and testimonies. Staff are encouraged to participate actively in policy research that is related to CBO's mission by presenting papers at conferences, publishing them as CBO working papers, and writing articles for professional journals.
Requirements
- US citizenship or current permanent residents seeking citizenship
Qualifications
Applicants must have either a Ph.D. in economics (or a related discipline) or a masters degree with five years of relevant experience. They should have strong quantitative and modeling skills; preference will be given to candidates with experience modeling energy markets or systems that are important sources of climate change-related emissions. Applicants should also be able to initiate and complete research projects independently and work as part of a team. Finally, they should be interested in working on issues of interest to the Congress and able to effectively communicate their work to nontechnical audiences.TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:See Qualifications above
Education
EDUCATION:
Applicants must have either a Ph.D. in economics (or a related discipline) or a master's degree with five years of relevant experience.
Contacts
- Address Congressional Budget Office
2nd and D St SW
Washington, Dist of Columbia 20515
US
- Name: Annita Gulati
- Phone: 0000000000
- Email: [email protected]
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