Environmental Economist
4 weeks ago
**Environmental Economist**
**Vancouver, BC or Ottawa, ON**
**Full-Time**
**The Opportunity**
- and impact-based approaches. We require a strong mix of quantitative skills for ecosystem services valuation, climate change impact assessment, modelling, and tool building combined with excellent written and verbal science communication skills.
ESSA provides a competitive compensation package with medical benefits, flexible working arrangements, professional development support, future advancement opportunities, interoffice travel support to visit colleagues, and three weeks’ vacation annually plus paid time off between the Christmas and New Years statutory holidays.
**About Us**
At ESSA, we are passionate about what we do and enjoy working with professionals who share our values and mission. ESSA’s staff are purpose-driven problem solvers, big-picture critical thinkers, evidence-driven and motivated by an aspiration to become trusted advisors to our clients and make a difference in the world. The magic of ESSA’s mission is “bringing together” diverse groups of clients around our three pillars: people, science and tools. ESSA is a bridging organization with progressive values focused on providing impartial, rigorous scientific advice striving to maximize our positive impact in the world. We do this by being inclusive to a diversity of perspectives, worldviews and ways of knowing to help build a sustainable future. Diversity of perspectives also arises from considerations including experience, race, gender identity, age, disability status, sexual orientation, and religion amongst others. Another way we are inclusive is welcoming a diversity of clients. We know that having these varied perspectives generates better, more innovative ideas to secure a sustainable future for humanity and the rest of the living world.
In addition to diverse clients and our passion for what we do at ESSA you will be surrounded by a rich intellectual inheritance and colleagues committed to collaboration and mentorship.
**Your Responsibilities**:
As Environmental Economist you will support project work aligned with your strengths and interests and will work collaboratively with your colleagues to develop exciting new business opportunities. Your role will focus on helping government, Indigenous, not-for-profit, private, and international clients answer challenging questions about how human wellbeing is affected by environmental decisions using models and tools you build or adapt that simulate changes in a range of socio-economic metrics.
Your day-to-day responsibilities may include:
**Project work**:
- Conducting scenario-based cost-benefit analyses that include market and non-market values (e.g., exchange values, consumer surplus, cost-based) using a range of valuation techniques for assessing impacts to societal welfare resulting from environmental change
- Building coupled biophysical and economic models, or working with biophysical modelers to design approaches and production functions that will produce the right metrics for socio-economic assessment and ecosystem services valuation
- Designing methods and implementing economic valuation techniques across a wide range of ecosystem services, including provisioning (food from fish, timber, hydropower), regulating (e.g., carbon storage/sequestration, water quality regulation, inland and coastal flood and erosion mitigation), and cultural (recreation & tourism opportunities, cultural heritage/identity, education and research opportunities) services
- Conducting literature reviews and preparing annotated bibliographies to support modelling and valuation and to stay up to date on emerging research
- Responding to data poor situations and devising creative solutions for quantification and/or qualitative analyses that are realistic within project budgets
- Designing and implementing economic impact assessments, including working with multipliers from government input-output models, and adjusting those data for region-specific analyses
- Creating decision support tools that help clients select and prioritize among possible management actions using biophysical, economic, and social indicators
- Occasionally travelling to attend and participate in client meetings, workshops, and study site visits in North America and abroad
**Business development**:
- Contributing to proposal writing (e.g., developing and writing the study design or approach)
- Participating in brainstorming sessions about strategic directions for economic services at ESSA
- Contributing to the development of thought leadership articles, promotional brochures, outreach, and presentations for targeted clients
**Education / Experience**
- You possess or are about to complete a **Master’s or Ph.D. degree** in Economics with an environmental management focus or Resource/Environmental Management with an economics focus, and have worked with at least **two **of: freshwater systems, marine/coastal systems, terr
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