[Hiring] Research Economist @AlphaX

Role Description

AlphaGov is seeking a Research Economist to support research and consulting opportunities involving labor markets, wage forecasting, workforce availability, and project cost risk.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Estimate how hiring costs change across locations and time periods.
• Assess the effects of competing labor demand.
• Explain how those changes affect budgets and project decisions.

Scope of Work

• Develop and validate forecasts of wages, labor costs, and workforce supply and demand.
• Analyze how changes in project timing shift hiring needs into different market conditions.
• Evaluate labor mobility, occupational shortages, hiring competition, overtime, and compensation pressure.
• Build scenarios showing how alternative hiring dates and staffing plans affect project costs.
• Combine public economic data with client staffing, payroll, and project records.
• Establish forecast benchmarks, uncertainty ranges, and methods for testing accuracy.
• Contribute research methods, technical narratives, and findings to proposals and client deliverables.

Qualifications

• PhD preferred in economics, applied economics, econometrics, or a related quantitative field. Comparable applied research experience will be considered.
• Experience in labor economics, wage analysis, price forecasting, or workforce modeling.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and test econometric or statistical models.
• Proficiency in R, Python, Stata, SAS, or comparable analytical tools.
• Experience working with employment, compensation, industry, or regional economic datasets.
• Ability to translate research into clear recommendations for executives, program leaders, and project teams.
• Experience with construction, infrastructure, utilities, energy, or skilled-trade labor markets is especially relevant.

Requirements

• Assignments are scoped individually, with compensation and time commitments agreed upon before work begins.
• Opportunities may include proposal development and delivery of awarded projects.
• Project delivery assignments depend on contract or funding awards and confirmed availability.
• Applicants may opt into consideration for future AlphaGov proposals and consulting engagements.
• Applying does not guarantee an assignment.
• Any opportunity with a separate affiliated company would be discussed and confirmed separately.

Benefits

• To apply: Submit your résumé or CV highlighting relevant forecasting projects, research methods, publications, and your specific contribution.