Senior Economist, Environment and Natural Resources

ICF seeks a senior level economist to support the growth of our expanding Regulatory, Policy and Economics practice, with a focus on natural resources and environmental policy and programs.

We are a $1 billion+ global consulting provider and work across a range of industries to make the world a better place through deep domain expertise, innovative thinking, and technology.

As a Senior Economics Consultant, you will help our federal government clients tackle challenging and meaningful projects that address the most important issues facing our society. Your expertise in regulatory economics, research, and sound objective analysis will inform policy decisions and help improve program effectiveness. You will also interact and collaborate with other business and technical leaders across ICF to grow and expand our regulatory policy portfolio with current and new clients (e.g., Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, other federal, state, and local agencies, and select non-governmental organizations).

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of the regulatory process and economic analyses necessary to support federal government policy decisions. Your expertise in policy analysis, economics, research, and sound objective analysis will lead to meaningful impacts on high profile policy-making activities.

ICF offers a dynamic, progressive environment that requires adaptability, energy and active collaboration with everyone in the organization. We are looking for someone who has superb team-building skills, influencing skills, technical skills and business-building capabilities. ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving lives and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek to build a culture that encourages, embraces, and is inclusive of all dimensions of difference. This is an outstanding opportunity to work with talented and passionate individuals and to continue to grow with a firm that believes in nurturing talent and developing long-term career success.

We are flexible on location, as you will be joining a team distributed across the Washington DC Metro area, Cambridge, MA, and other locations. Travel to client sites, ICF offices and conferences may be required depending on project and client needs.

What you will be doing

• Lead the day-to-day project activities. Apply subject matter expertise and thought leadership to analyze the effects and costs and benefits of policies and regulations affecting various areas including health, labor markets, environment, natural resources, immigration, transportation, and others. Oversee delivery of services to meet client needs for timely, high quality analyses and program support.
• Develop business. Make substantive contributions to sales and proposals efforts on key client accounts and identified leads. Engage in capture, bid and proposal processes and assist with developing compelling technical solutions for client audiences. Leverage relationships within federal, state and local government and non-profit sectors to help identify opportunities and present ICF’s capabilities.
• Grow the team. Mentor and coach junior staff. Monitor workload, provide guidance, ensure quality work products and high levels of employee engagement.

Minimum Qualifications

PhD in public policy, economics, or a related discipline, plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience to include:

• Demonstrated expertise in economic and regulatory analyses in one or more domestic US policy areas including the environment, natural resources management, health, and safety.
• Experience working on programs or projects related to environment, natural resources management, health, and safety.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated project and people leadership experience.
• Strong technical project management and financial project management acumen.
• As this is a client-facing role, strong verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills are essential.
• Demonstrated success delivering policy solutions to clients in a professional services / consulting setting or within a federal agency setting.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the federal government rulemaking process.
• Experience using R (preferred) or other structured programming language for data analysis.
• Positive, pragmatic and collaborative style, with an ability to generate enthusiasm, train and develop others, and be innovative in accomplishing goals in a large, complex, multi-cultural, and matrix environment.