Oregon Office of Economic Analysis

Our office is seeking a dynamic and driven individual to join our team as an Economist. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping critical forecasts that guide decision-making processes across various sectors. Key responsibilities include administering forecasts related to corrections, youth corrections, and public defense. Additional responsibilities will include some combination of the various revenue forecasts (Corporate Activity Tax, Lottery, vice revenues, etc), the clean fuels forecast, overseeing the office’s General Fund tracking and reconciliation process, and administering the office’s data warehouse.

Additionally, you will serve as a strategic advisor to state agencies, providing expert advice on forecast methods and planning strategies, particularly for agencies with limited resources. Your role will involve serving as a point of oversight for all forecast projects, ensuring adherence to best practices and driving continuous improvement initiatives. If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and make a tangible difference in public finance forecasting, we want to hear from you!

This position is hybrid remote. Much of our work we do, or can do remotely, but do have in-person forecast advisory meetings, forecast releases, and discussions with other agencies and policymakers. And you can work in the office full-time if you prefer as well.

You can find the job posting and apply HERE. That post includes the full position description, along with contact information for Human Resources. Of course, please feel free to reach out directly to Mark or myself (you can find our phone numbers and emails on our main page here.)

Two more things to note.

One, our office has two vacancies. This current job posting is focused on the criminal justice forecasts and analyses our office does. The position will also work on some of the other forecasts and projects we do in our office. We are looking to fill it ASAP with the posting held open until March 6th, when we will begin to review the applicants. The second posting (which is currently going through the class/comp process, but will be another Economist 4 position) will be more revenue forecasting, along with some of the other duties and projects from what we do in our office. If you are interested in either or both of the positions, note that applying for the current position does not exclude you from the second one, and your application can and should carry over if you want it to, given the technical details, qualifications, payscale, etc are the same.

Two, here is the information on salary, qualifications and desired attributes for the position.

Salary Range (annual): $86,928 – $128,088

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Master’s degree in economics or a related field and four years’ experience doing economic research or econometric forecasting; OR,
  A Ph.D. in economics or a related field and one-year experience doing economic research.

Desired Attributes:

• Background in math/statistics, finance, economics and/or accounting.
• Database management and administration experience.
• Quantitative and statistical analysis skills.
• Proven skill in report writing, creating graphs and presentations, and being able to explain and present technical information to a general audience.
• Knowledge of tax policy and public finance.

If you have any questions please reach out, we are happy to chat about the position and what our office does!