Economic analysis and insight helps the Environment Agency deliver its EA2030 Strategy.

You will produce analysis to help shape clearer, more effective, and more efficient regulation of businesses and the economy. This may be by helping the Environment Agency to understand the impacts of regulation on sustainable growth, or by using insights on industry to make regulation more informed and impactful. 

A further focus will be contributing analysis that improves water supply resilience, water quality, and wider water environment and natural capital outcomes. This includes supporting the Agency’s ambition for cleaner, healthier waters and ensuring investment and regulatory approaches deliver strong, sustainable outcomes for people and nature.  

As part of a team that works on a diverse range of issues, you will have future opportunities to cover a wide range of topics from regulation to infrastructure delivery. 

You will be part of the Environment Agency Economics Profession, and will contribute to developing our professional standards, outreach activities and shaping our professional development.  

Key responsibilities may include: 

• Leading economic analysis to improve regulatory design and effectiveness, ensuring regulatory approaches are proportionate, outcome focused, and support innovation and compliance.  

• Working closely with policy, operational, and scientific colleagues to embed economics in regulatory decisions—strengthening clarity, evidence use, and consistent delivery across sectors.  

• Producing economic approaches that enhance water supply and water environment outcomes, including analysis of options, infrastructure needs, water demand and resilience, and the value of environmental improvements.  

• Developing economic tools, methods and guidance for colleagues and business to use to generate robust, proportionate economic analysis. 

• Communicating clear, high impact economic advice to inform decisions by senior leaders, operational teams, and partners, helping the Agency deliver its EA2030 goals efficiently and effectively.  

The Economics Team is a centrally managed function that is part of Strategy, Transformation and Assurance. It supports all parts of the Environment Agency’s work.  

We work closely with national colleagues to on solutions that protect the environment while enabling sustainable growth—reflecting the Environment Agency’s commitment to Act with Clarity, Act with Knowledge and Conviction and to Focus on Efficient and Effective Delivery.  

You should be an economist with at least 3 years experience from the public sector, consultancy, or academia. Knowledge of environmental policy and concepts is not essential. You should have skills and experience in 

• Cost-benefit analysis, as part of business cases or impacts assessments, using HM Treasury Green Book approaches 

• Producing insights on economics sectors and industries using microeconomic concepts, demonstrated in any public policy or analytical setting. 

• Analysing, interpreting, and modeling data, using economic tools to generate clear, actionable insights. 

• Clearly communicating economic insights to non-economists in a policy or delivery body setting, with the confidence to explain complex ideas in an accessible and creative way 

• Working independently, showing good judgement, and driving work forward while contributing positively to team goals. 

• Building effective partnerships with analysts and experts from other disciplines — for example policy, science, operations, finance, or engineering — and to work confidently in multidisciplinary settings.

You may contact Ino Kremezi, Economics Manager, for more information about this role, using [email protected]