Transport Analyst Role
You will work within a national team to enhance our current capabilities and contribute to a series of regular publications and widely varying project work for public and private sector clients.
This role will have a significant quantitative element, which will see you working with datasets, both temporal and spatial. You will be working as part of a national team to analyse economic and other datasets, build your knowledge across a number of subject-matter areas by supporting projects across the transport economics team, and advance your skills in research, data analytics, modelling and reporting.
The team is led by one of Australia's leading Transport Economists and works in all States and territories as well as internationally. You will join Australia's largest team of economists in delivering rare insights to help public and private sector organisations plan for the future. We offer economic and policy advisory services to clients across government and the private sectors, and pride ourselves on providing the highest calibre analysis and advice.
The ideal candidate will have 12-36 months' experience in economic research, data analysis or modelling and forecasting, and most likely with experience in manipulation of temporal and spatial datasets as well as operational data and statistics. Knowledge of and interest in the transport and infrastructure sectors is preferred. You will bring a combination of the following skills, attributes and experiences to the team:
* An undergraduate degree with a quantitative focus is essential (e.g. economics, statistics, data analytics);
* Understanding of economics, statistics and demographics is an advantage;
* Intermediate to advanced Excel skills;
* Possibly, strong skills and experience using R;
* Some knowledge and experience in using GIS software, spatial analytics, databases and visualisation software would be an advantage;
* A passion for detailed and diligent analysis and clearly communicating your results;
* Strong attention to detail, and be driven to look for solutions and solve problems;
* Most importantly, you must have a desire to learn and work within a multi-disciplinary team.
About the Team
We are a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong. We prioritise flexibility and choice and provide a range of perks and benefits including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.