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In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.
Economics and Impact Consulting
Sitting within our growing Strategy business within Northern Ireland, you will work with predominantly public sector clients across two areas of work:
Economics
Providing economic insights and evidence to help inform policy, business cases, and programmatic decisions, and providing economic commentary on macro issues affecting the Northern Ireland economy
Impact
Supporting clients with programme evaluations, economic evaluations, and social impact assessment work across a wide range of sectors such as climate change, education, trade, health, and international development among others.
Programme
Our graduate training programme is underpinned by a development framework that broadens and deepens your knowledge. You'll learn from hands-on coaching and an outstanding variety of work, picking up business, personal and technical skills you can use across the network, and throughout your career.
What you'll do
As the team in Northern Ireland is growing, you’ll be able to both support the growth areas of the local team, as well as support a broader National team on a wider range of economic topics, including regulatory economics, impact assessment, macroeconomics, pricing economics, behavioural economics, financial economics, econometric modelling, and competition economics. There would also be opportunities to work on projects that span the broader areas of Strategy and Management Consulting.
You'll typically find yourself in project teams of anywhere from 2 to 15 or more people, often with teams from other areas of Consulting, Lines of Service, and even other countries. You’ll undertake cutting-edge economic analysis whilst engaging with executives from the world’s top organisations, learning how to present and communicate your findings with impact. You’ll also have the opportunity to work on public thought leadership pieces that focus on topics as diverse as quantifying the impact of increasing female participation in the workforce to assessing the possible future role of drones on the UK economy. Our work receives attraction and has been regularly featured in national newspapers and on the news.
The role will be based in Belfast, largely in our Merchant Square office. There may also be opportunities to also support our national work, including travel to London and other parts of the UK if required.
We’ll monitor your development so you know how you're doing. Throughout your graduate programme you'll be given guidance and support to help you be ready for the next step in your career.
What you'll gain
We’ll help you learn and improve every day with hands-on coaching, a dedicated mentoring scheme, regular ‘lunch and learn’ sessions, and seminars with academic and client speakers to build your technical economics understanding alongside core consulting skills. We also provide opportunities for formal training in technical skills (such as programme evaluation, machine learning, econometrics, business case appraisal, and the CFA programme), new technologies (such as Alteryx, Power BI and Tableau), and general consulting skills (such as writing and presenting with impact).
What you'll need
You will preferably have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in an Economics related subject (with a minimum 50% Economics module coverage). We would also consider exceptional candidates with a social science or related background who can demonstrate a strong understanding of government policy and/or programme evaluation techniques.
We determine whether you're on course to pass based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.
The start date for this programme will be October 2023.
