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Senior Transport Economist

Location – Inchicore, Capital Investment Division 

Salary – 4B 

Duration – 3 year fixed-term contract

Applications are being invited from suitably qualified candidates for the position of a Senior Transport Economist within the Transport Planning Department of the Capital Investments Division.

Role and Purpose

Our current Capital Investments Programme is the largest such programme in our history, including the delivery of the €5bn nationwide programme of capital investment projects nationally and regionally, including the Greater Dublin Area. We require committed project appraisal professionals to help make its ambitious aims a reality.

To support this, a position of Senior Transport Economist is required within the Transport Planning Department of Capital Investments. This role will report into the Head of Transport Planning.

Specific Responsibilities

Appraisals / Policy

  • Assist in ensuring the effective leadership, delivery, support, and monitoring of a suite of project and programme appraisals in compliance with the Infrastructure Guidelines and other relevant sectoral guidance.
  • Ensure all statutory and, where relevant, non-statutory consultation submissions are submitted in accordance with set deadlines.

Portfolio Management 

  • Manage multiple transport planning and economic consultants under framework with IÉ, including monitoring expenditure.
  • Represent Transport Planning / IÉ in engaging with key primary stakeholders such as the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery, and Reform, the Department of Transport’s Strategic Research and Analysis Division, and National Transport Authority during the appraisal process and on the on-going development of transport appraisal guidance to support the implementation of transport policy.

Finance 

  • Monitor expenditure of the multiple transport planning and economic consultants under framework with IÉ.
  • Effectively communicate with delivery managers on the outputs versus budget / forecast expenditure for each appraisal / project, including any alterations or risks to the current existing budget.

Please note that the above list is not exhaustive.

A full job description can be found here.

 

Key Qualities

Essential Requirements

  • Hold a minimum of a degree in a relevant discipline, being Economics, Statistics, Finance, or other relevant discipline.
  • Have a minimum of 6 years’ overall relevant experience with 3 of these years working in an economics-centred role; and
  • Have demonstrated experience in the development, analysis and/ or review of capital investment project/programme business cases or other related appraisal experience.
  • Good knowledge of transport economics.
  • Experience with procurement processes and comfortable managing budgets.
    Ability to establish and maintain cross functional relationships with people at all levels.

Desirable

  • Experience in a transport planning function (incl. experience using transport modelling tools)
  • Experience using the National Transport Authority’s Regional Modelling System (RMS) and Transport Infrastructure Ireland’s National Transport Model (NTpM) and/or other comparable transport modelling tools.
  • Have economics related professional experience working with or within a public sector context.
  • Understand the national, regional, and local policy context for rail projects/ programmes.
  • Good knowledge of railway economics

A competency-based interview will form part of this selection process. Candidates may be shortlisted on the basis of their application/CV and relevant experience.

If any applicants have special requirements, please advise Shared Services when forwarding your application.

If you are interested in applying for this role, CV and cover letter should be forwarded to:  capitalprogrecruitment@irishrail.ie by 4pm Friday 3rd May 2024.

At Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail we are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in all that we do. This starts with how we recruit people. It is important to us that all individuals feel welcome to join our organisation and we take great care to ensure an even playing field for all.

We will strive to provide reasonable accommodation to all candidates where required and requested.

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or disability.

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