Economic Consultant for Water Resources

7 days ago

Sacramento, California, United States Stantec Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Natural Resource Economist to join our team at Stantec. As a key member of our Management Consulting Team, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, including cost-benefit analyses, national economic development analyses, ecosystem service valuation, and regional economic impact statements.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and Lead Economic Research: Develop and implement economic research to estimate the economic and financial feasibility of civil works projects, utilizing federal guidance methods of assessment.
  • Evaluate Economic and Financial Feasibility: Evaluate the economic and financial feasibility of both traditional structural projects and nature-based solutions, such as restoration of wetlands designed to manage storm runoff and act as an ecological filter.
  • Support Business Development: Support business development in Climate Solutions, Coastal Resilience, Ecosystem Restoration, Energy Transition, Smart Cities, Sustainability, and International Development by telling the economic story of projects such as groundwater remediation, wetlands restoration, water quality regulations, carbon offsets, and air quality regulations.
  • Provide Advice and Guidance: Provide advice on business development, employee development, training of junior staff, and workload management.
  • Serve as a Team Member: Serve as an active member of multiple teams, performing tasks such as evaluating client-specific situations and requirements and presenting to clients.
  • Grow and Maintain Client Relationships: Grow and maintain client relationships and lead business development efforts in responding to client requests, RFQs, and RFPs.
  • Review and Ensure Quality: Serve as an independent reviewer of analyses prepared by peers or junior staff to ensure technical accuracy and appropriateness of methods and tools being utilized as well as solutions being evaluated.
  • Project Management: Serve as the project manager for client engagements, ensuring delivery of high-quality services on time and within budget.
Qualifications
  • Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with and analyze large data sets.
  • Experience with Industry Standard Methods: Working knowledge of and interest in industry standard methods, specifically the Federal Principles, Requirements, and Guidelines for accessing benefits of structural and non-structural benefits of proposed projects.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office: Proficiency with Microsoft Office Excel, including quantitative modeling and analysis, and other business systems.
  • Additional Data Analysis Tools: Experience with additional data analysis tools, including but not limited to Access, Power BI/Tableau, GIS, SQL, IMPLAN, Python, R, etc.
  • Excellent Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
  • Self-Starter: Self-starter capable of efficiently and proactively working independently as well as with a geographically dispersed team.
  • Attention to Detail: Intense attention to details as deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.
  • Travel: Willing to travel as needed, with travel may be up to 10 percent to 25 percent depending on the assignment.
Traits and Attributes of Top Performers
  • Intellectual Curiosity: Intellectual curiosity, with a drive to ask why things work or don't work currently and how we might address this-even if, or especially if, this thinking falls outside of conventional wisdom.
  • Lifelong Learners: Lifelong learners, with a genuine desire to learn continually to solve our clients' problems and improve the communities we serve.
  • Analytical Problem Solvers: Analytical problem solvers, with the ability to understand how different factors, variables, and policies result in corresponding economic and financial impacts.
  • Collaboration and Co-Creation: Collaboration and co-creation, with the ability to work effectively on a team, across disciplines with individuals of diverse cultures and abilities in a cooperative and generative manner.
  • Creativity and Adaptability: Creativity and adaptability, with the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough, and transformation.
  • Strategic and Systematic Thinking: Strategic and systematic thinking, with the ability to synthesize different sides of an issue by examining a range of options and outcomes, considering the interconnectedness of elements as parts of a whole system.
  • Entrepreneurial Mindset: Entrepreneurial mindset, with a strong desire to innovate, effect change, break orthodoxies, and create new value for clients.
  • Sincere Desire to Please Clients: Sincere desire to please our clients, with an innate drive, beyond personal gain, for ensuring that our clients are pleased with our performance and our deliverables.
Education and Experience
  • Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience will be considered for the successful candidate for this position.
  • Master's Degree or PH.D in Economics: Master's Degree or PH.D in economics.
  • 12 Years of Experience: 12 years of experience, with work experience could include natural resource economic consulting, or work with federal agencies requiring economic and financial feasibility analyzes of proposed projects.

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