Minimum mandatory criteria:
Education: Certificate, diploma or degree in economics or other relevant field from a recognized CanadianFootnote* post-secondary institution.
Experience: 48 months relevant experience.
Typical duties may include:
- Performing more complex research to explain and forecast economic behaviour and patterns
- Performing analyses of factors that determine economic growth, employment, wages, etc.
- Monitoring economic data to assess effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy
- Preparing forecasts of income and expenditures, interest rates, exchange rates, production, consumption, etc.
- Developing models to analyze, explain and forecast economic behaviour and patterns
- Advising senior officials on policies to increase economic activities
- Advising senior officials on the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies
- Advising senior officials on the exchange of goods and services among nations
- Forecasting production and consumption of renewable resources
- Forecasting the supply, consumption and depletion of non-renewable resources
- Providing guidance to managers and information on the development and preparation of the Results-based Management and Accountability Framework (RMAF), Risk-Based Audit Framework (RBAF), Departmental Performance Reports (DPPs) and Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPPs)
