Senior Economist

Benefits: Flexible working arrangements, employer pension contributions of circa 29%, generous annual/parental and special leave policies, plus extensive personal wellbeing benefits. Please see full reward package at end of job description for more information.
Duration: This position is initially approved for a 12-month fixed term period, with potential for extension or permanent status.
Working Pattern: As an employer that supports flexible working, we will consider part-time or compressed working requests, though these will be reviewed on a case by case basis and dependent on the role requirements.
Location: Hybrid working. Your contractual base will be either Meadowbank House, Edinburgh EH8 7AU or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow G2 5LD. You will be required to visit one of these locations for in-person activities but will have the choice to work remotely in a pattern agreed with your line manager.
Department: Customer Experience
Directorate: Customer and Business Development
Role Reports to: Head of Customer Experience
Closing date: 24 of November at 23:59
Number of Vacancies: 1
Registers of Scotland (RoS) manages 21 land, property and other legal registers which are a critical asset for the Scottish economy. We aim to provide the best public service for Scotland and are on a mission to make some of the oldest public land registers in the world into some of the most modern. We are committed to providing the best service to our customers through the creation of award-winning digital services, supported by the latest in cloud and AI technology.
About this Role: This is an exciting new opportunity to spearhead the role of an economist across the work that Registers of Scotland does. No one knows more about or has better access to the data that underpins Scotland's thriving property markets. Registering over 500,000 property transactions a year generates huge amounts of information over which economic analysis will be beneficial to our business and forward planning capabilities.
You will work within a team of experts and specialists who are responsible for our official and national property statistics, customer policy, customer insight and research work. You will be required to provide wider macro and micro economic insights, compile forecasts to help improve our market analysis, income modelling and our future financial planning.
Your role will also be to support the exciting new work and business development activities we are undertaking not only across our current services, but also through our Geovation investment and the proptech market. This post also offers the opportunity to work with other public sector economists.
You will be an ambassador for the organisation and must be prepared to do media interviews. You will need to build relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders – working highly effectively with your partner senior leaders covering our commercial services, financial activities, business planning and analysis, to achieve the evolution of the statutory and non-statutory services we provide and to grow RoS' reputation.
Your main duties will include: Identify opportunities to inform and enhance our performance across RoS' services.Review and recommend opportunities to enhance the impact and uptake of our official statistics.Develop wider sources of relevant economic data.Utilise our and others' economic data to enhance our market forecasting and financial modelling and support analysis to identify correlation of key factors.Work with the Customer and Business Development leadership team to identify and maximise where economic analysis can augment our services.Work with the Business Development leadership team to identify and provide economic analysis to support business decision on future products and services.Work with the Data and Analytics team to improve forecasts, modelling and trend analysis.Work with the Finance team to improve market forecasting and our income modelling.Actively build and maintain a network of colleagues and contacts internally and externally to ensure the maximum benefit of an economic function in RoS.Support the development of our customer insight team and the data captured.Identify and fill pertinent property market research gaps.Essential criteria - Your Skills and Attributes for Success Technical/Experience Bachelor's degree in economics or equivalent/relevant experience.Experience in a senior role, ideally in the property sector.Thinking Wider Innovative thinker, with a track record for translating strategic thinking into action plans and outputs.Brings together views and perspectives of a broad range of stakeholders to gain a wider picture of the landscape surrounding activities and policies.Analysis and Making Effective Decisions Ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs.Analyses/evaluates data from various sources to identify pros and cons and identify risks to make well considered decisions.Leading and Communicating Excellent and persuasive communicator, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.Highly developed written and verbal skills coupled with the ability to carry out impactful media interviews.An ability to display strong leadership during a significant change programme.Collaborating and Partnering Actively builds and maintains a network of colleagues and other key contacts to ensure the maximum benefit of an economic function in RoS.Demonstrated experience and leadership in collaboratively delivering a comprehensive series of improvements across an organisation's vision and strategic objectives.Delivering a Quality Service Makes clear, pragmatic and manageable plans for service delivery using programme and project management methods.Ensures the benefits of their specialist area are realised for the whole of RoS, our external partners and customers.How to Apply To apply, click on 'Apply now' and complete our online application form, you will need to submit:
A CV setting out your career history and how you meet the Technical/Experience elements of the essential criteria (we recommend no more than 4 pages in length).As a continuation of your CV and within the same document, a Statement of Suitability (500 words minimum but no longer than 1000 words) with examples of how you meet the competencies as stated above.Your CV and Statement of Suitability should be submitted as a single document in MS Word format.Please note: CVs that are not accompanied by a full supporting statement will not be scored.Statements exceeding 1250 words will not be considered. We would strongly recommend that your answers are written in the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action & Result).We recommend that you work on your supporting statement using MS Word, and then uploading it; please note the system will "time-out" and sign you off if you are inactive or spend over a certain amount of time in the application without saving your progress.If we receive a high volume of applications, we may complete an initial sift on the first essential criteria (please see above).If you have any questions about the role, you can contact ******
Assessment Candidates will be assessed against the essential criteria for the role and competencies as stated above. We will invite suitable candidates to an assessment centre week commencing 16 December 2024 though this is subject to confirmation. Assessments will include a Competency-based interview and a further exercise, details of which will be shared with candidates who successfully make it through the sift stage. We will be assessing candidates remotely via MS Teams (though we may invite you to attend assessment at one of our office locations with prior agreement).
Application Sift: Week commencing the 25 November
Notice to candidates: 2 December
Assessment: Week commencing the 16 December
* Please note dates may be subject to change.
Feedback Feedback will only be provided if you progress to interview stage.
Reserve List In the event that further posts are required, a reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for up to 12 months.
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