Economist Trainee*, NS, or Senior Economist (NY HELPS)- Albany

Economist Trainee*, NS, or Senior Economist (NY HELPS)- Albany

For appointment to an Economist Trainee 1, you must have a bachelor’s degree in economics OR a bachelor’s degree including or supplemented by 18 semester credit hours in economics and an additional 6 credits from among the following coursework areas: computer science, economics, econometrics, mathematics, operations research, research methods, or statistics.

For appointment to an Economist Trainee 2, you must have a bachelor’s degree in economics OR a bachelor’s degree including or supplemented by 18 semester credit hours in economics and an additional 6 credits from among the following coursework areas: computer science, economics, econometrics, mathematics, operations research, research methods, or statistics; AND one year of professional experience collecting, interpreting and analyzing economic information and data to prepare reports; and designing and evaluating long‑term simulations and economic models.

For appointment to a Senior Economist, Grade 18, you must have a bachelor’s degree in economics OR a bachelor’s degree including or supplemented by 18 semester credit hours in economics and an additional 6 credits from among the following coursework areas: computer science, economics, econometrics, mathematics, operations research, research methods, or statistics; AND two years of professional experience collecting, interpreting and analyzing economic information and data to prepare reports; and designing and evaluating long‑term simulations and economic models.

Substitutions

A master’s degree in economics or econometrics may substitute for one year of the professional experience described above. A Ph.D. in economics or econometrics may substitute for two years of the professional experience described above.

Preferred candidates would have experience with the specification, estimation and testing of structural and time series econometric models.

Duties Description:

• Gathering electric and gas market and systems operation data and performing statistical, econometric, or economic analysis.
• Performing econometric forecasts of energy utility sales volumes and customer counts.
• Participating in collaborative staff and industry efforts to develop rules, procedures and technical aspects of energy product markets.
• Presenting expert economic testimony in public hearings before the Public Service Commission or Administrative Law Judges or before other governmental bodies.
• Producing memoranda and written reports for staff and/or outside parties on regulatory economic issues related to the electric, gas, telecommunications, and water industries.
• Analyzing economic issues related to transitioning of wholesale and retail utility markets, measurement and mitigation of market power, incentive regulation, benefit cost analysis, measurement of marginal costs, and the development of market rules and market design changes required to implement the State’s carbon reduction and distributed energy resources goals.