Consulting - Government - Labour Market and Social Development (Senior Manager)

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Advisory

Specialism
Advisory - Other

Management Level
Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career in our Management Consulting practice, within Government Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

A labour market economist typically studies the variables impacting labour supply and demand, understands the application of microeconomic and macroeconomic trends on labour market and social outcomes, researches and analyses market trends, and conducts impact assessments and socio-economic contribution analysis to design and appraise labour and social policy interventions.

Role Description

Responsibilities

- Using a dynamic panel model to estimate the impact of different labour market and policy interventions on the gender pay gap, employment rates, labour market participation, workforce productivity  and other labour market outcomes.
- Collect, analyze and visualise large amounts of data related to labour and employment markets to understand and quantify labour supply and demand at both macro and micro economic levels
- Conduct policy impact assessments, and economic and social contribution analysis, to answer policy questions related to labour and social policy design and appraisal
- Design social security, social development and social welfare schemes for various segments of the workforce
- Take PwC current labour market propositions to clients and develop new propositions to commercialise across the ME
- Identify and manage potential external contributors to provide additional analysis
- Work on business development activities such as thought leaderships, business reports and business proposals
- Transfer knowledge and relevant experience to help build the capabilities of the team

Areas of Expertise

- Economic Development
- Labour Economics
- Public Policy
- Impact Assessments
- Social Sector Policies and Employment 
- Social Welfare
- Social Development
- Social Security

Requirements

Skills

- Ability to compile, analyze, and report data to explain economic phenomena and forecast labour market trends
- Ability to design and review national pension system and design of multi-tier model
- Strong data analytics foundation and the ability to use innovative data analytics and data gathering methodologies
- Design, develop and appraise policy interventions and run multi-criteria analysis for policy prioritisation
- Strong international or regional knowledge is desirable, especially regarding the Middle East

Preferred Education and Experience

- Master's degree (or equivalent) preferably in Economics, Labour Development Studies or any other related field
- 8-10 years of experience in Economics, Labour Market Analysis, Social Sector Policies, Employment Creation and Labour Market Indicators 
- Previous Experience with ILO, World Bank is a plus

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.