About the role
We are looking for an Economist to join the PBE team. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your knowledge and expertise to help organisations tackling some of the toughest challenges in the UK.

About you
We are looking for exceptional candidates with strong experience working as a professional economist or with a PhD in economics. This role would suit a candidate with a passion for using evidence to drive better decisions and how this can contribute to improvements across wider society. You should have practical experience of using economic techniques such as econometrics and Cost Benefit Analysis to analyse real world situations, and of communicating conclusions effectively to a wide range of audiences.

Post type: Permanent, full-time. The role will be hybrid - PBE has an office in London with no minimum office attendance required except to attend our in-person team meeting once every six weeks.

Reports to: Head of Analysis

Main duties and tasks:

• Deliver insightful economic analysis to support charities and develop PBE’s evidence base about the social sector.
• Provide advice and support to charities to help them gather the right data to support economic evaluation of their impact in the future.
• Design and deliver ground-breaking and impactful studies that help to shine a light on the causes and consequences of low wellbeing, generating new evidence to inform and influence government policy.
• Provide guidance, review, challenge, and quality assurance for economic and research projects.
• Support our Communications functions to present our analyses in an accessible, impactful way that is suitable for the audience.
• Support funding bid drafting to help shape and fund future economic research projects regarding the social sector and our key analytical themes.

About us
PBE's (formerly Pro Bono Economics) mission is to end low personal wellbeing in the UK. We do this by helping charities and social enterprises understand their economic and social impact, so they can improve their overall effectiveness. We enable professional economists from the private and public sectors as well as academia to volunteer their skills to tackle some of the most pressing issues in society. We have worked with over 600 charities since our inception in 2009.