Senior Economic Advisor - Policy Analysis

Qualifications:

• Masters or Ph.D. degree in Economics, or a related discipline with 7 years of professional experience in public policy analysis of energy and/or environmental related issues with emphasis on upstream oil and gas issues. 
• Demonstrated ability to assess economic impacts of proposed legislative and/or regulatory policies.
• Experience in formulating, conducting and managing research.
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills and experience communicating both research results and policy positions to both technical and non-technical audiences in the public policy arena.
• Demonstrated strong analytic and writing skills with exceptional organizational and prioritization skills.
• Ability to function effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment and to meet tight deadlines while maintaining high work quality.
• Flexibility and capability to work on new issues as needs arise.
• Knowledge of oil and gas industry operations.

Essential Functions:

• Work effectively within API departments and advocacy staff to provide economic policy expertise, including:
• Conduct analyses of economic studies and legislative proposals;
• Provide oversight of contractors on economic studies;
• Develop and communicate appropriate messages based on research results.
• Manage contractor research and/or formulate and conduct research on energy related issues affecting the petroleum industry to inform API policy decisions and to support industry positions.
• Coordinate with issue experts, industry personnel, and management on economic research in assigned issues areas.
• Communicate research results by publishing and/or presenting results to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide technical “peer review” on papers prepared by other API staff and critical assessment of published economic analysis in the relevant areas.
• Actively contribute to achievement of Policy Analysis Department goals by providing input to various policy-related department initiatives.

Please send your resume to Human Resources Manager by e-mail to hr@api.org, by fax to 202-682-8569 or by mail to API, 1220 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005.