Development Economist

Jacobs

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ref: HP515-828

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Why CH2M HILL
For decades, CH2M HILL has been a global leader in engineering, consulting, design, program management, construction and operations, working on the most challenging and impactful projects around the world. Through these challenging projects, we develop our people — who transform complex and creative ideas into reality, every day. Join us and together we can work to build a sustainable world. We support you to reach your greatest career goals through continued professional development, a positive work life balance and undeniably cool engineering projects. Join employee-owned CH2M HILL and discover why our diverse team has been consistently ranked as one of the leading employers and repeatedly recognized as a best place to work in the U.S.

About the Business

Description and Desired Qualifications

CH2M HILL Development Economist - Doha, Qatar

Job Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

The principal function of this position is to:
• Provide land / development economic support on urban development, economic and master planning projects.
• Undertake economic, property and planning research as required on projects.
• Develop bespoke financial, forecasting and land use models as required on projects.

The priorities of this role include:
• To provide day to day technical economics and modelling support on projects.
• To provide high quality written reports and analysis.
• To support project delivery by providing inputs to time and budget.

Requirements

The ideal candidate should possess and be able to demonstrate the following skills and knowledge:

• 3-8 years previous experience in consultancy or development environment.
• Excellent data / spreadsheet / database / analysis skills.
• Technical understanding of some of the following: property economics, urban economics, macroeconomic profiling; business planning; development appraisal / financial modelling; economic impact.
• Ability to analyse and present data.
• Good reporting and presentation.

Minimum qualifications to include:
• Qualified to minimum of degree level (degrees with numeric focus preferred e.g. Economics, Finance, Property)
• Interest / experience in Urban Development and Planning
• Willingness to learn to improve the spectrum of technical and softer skills required from a good consultant.

About the Company

We deliver impactful global solutions to create a more connected, sustainable world - from intelligence to infrastructure, cybersecurity to space exploration. Our 52,000 employees across 50 countries work every day, challenging the expectations of today to reinvent the way we’ll all live tomorrow.

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