Economist (Freelance, with potential to move to part-time or full-time)
The Good Growth Foundation is looking for an Economist to join our team on a freelance basis. We’re looking for someone who wants their analysis to matter – to shape arguments, influence policymakers, and underpin campaigns that move the national debate.

The Role:
You’ll contribute economic analysis that forms the backbone of our flagship research and campaigns. This is hands-on, high-impact work, where your analysis will be read by ministers, advisers, journalists, and business leaders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct rigorous quantitative analysis (economic impact modelling, input-output modelling, cost-benefit analysis, regression analysis) to assess proposed policy changes, such as estimating GVA impacts, productivity gains, or returns on public investment.
  
  
• Support research papers and briefings across topics including education, health, welfare, housing, infrastructure, trade, and industrial strategy.
  
  
• Keep a pulse on fiscal events, legislative shifts, and policy windows to ensure research is timely, relevant, and provocative.
  
  
• Assist with briefing notes and presentations for MPs, policymakers, and industry leaders.
  
  
• Translate complex datasets into clear, persuasive stories, charts, and visuals that can cut through with policymakers and media.

What We’re Looking For:

• Qualifications: Degree in Economics or related discipline (or equivalent experience) and confidence with quantitative data and applied analysis.
  
  
• Analytical ability: Skilled in Excel, R, Stata, or Python.
  
  
• Political instinct: Understand that economic policy is inherently political and are motivated by using economics to drive change.
  
  
• Communication: Can explain complex economic ideas clearly and accessibly, writing for a broad, non-technical audience.
  
  
• Versatility: Comfortable jumping between topics – from housing yields to skills policy to industrial strategy – in a fast-moving environment.
  
  
• Passion: Care deeply about getting the numbers right while keeping sight of the human impact behind them.