Senior Economist (NY HELPS) - VID 220991

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Date posted 07/31/26

Applications due
08/15/26

Vacancy id220991

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Ny helpyes

Agencycannabis management, office of

Titlesenior economist (ny helps) - vid 220991

Occupational category other professional careers

Salary gradens

Bargaining unitps&t - professional, scientific, and technical (pef)

Salary rangefrom $53764 to $85138 annually

Employment type

full-time

Appointment type contingent permanent

Jurisdictional class non-competitive class

Travel percentage 10%

Workweek mon-fri

Hours per week 37.5

Workday

From 8 am

To 5 pm

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? Yes

County albany

Street address washington ave, bldg. 9

City albany

Stateny

Zip code
12226

Duties description the incumbent of this position will support all aspects of ocm's market and industry reporting including primary data collection, survey development, and analysis. This incumbent will work closely with the associate economist to support market research development and evidence-based policy.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Market research & survey design:

* design, develop, and program market research surveys using platforms such as alchemer to collect quantitative and qualitative data from consumers, licensees, and industry stakeholders.

* conduct literature reviews, develop clear research objectives, sampling strategies, questionnaire structures, and analysis plans to support market research.

Data collection and compilation:

* identify and compile relevant data from new york and other public and private sector sources to support the office's reporting objectives.

* collaborate with other ocm units to:

O understand what data other units currently collect and have available.

O extract and collect data

O identify the insights or narratives that are most valuable to each unit.

* perform rigorous quality control (qc) checks on incoming data to ensure data is methodologically sound, error free, and suitable for the office's reporting requirements.

* maintain standardized data collection and quality control protocols and documentation to ensure replicability and transparency.

* monitor data sources to ensure timely retrieval and accuracy of data updates.

Analysis and reporting:

* conduct economic analysis utilizing econometric and statistical methods to generate market insights.

* prepare data visualizations, produce reports, develop recommendations (where appropriate) based on findings and create supplemental materials to disseminate insights from ocm's growing knowledge base.

* contribute to ocm's legislatively mandated reports including the agency's annual report, and the analysis of the state's social equity and market performance outcomes.

* create supplementary materials based on analysis and reporting, including briefings for state leadership, presentations for the cannabis control board, cannabis advisory board, and other stakeholders, and public engagement content.

Minimum qualifications this title is part of the new york hiring for emergency limited placement statewide program (ny helps)
* and applicants must meet the following minimum qualifications to be considered for this position:

This title includes a traineeship opportunity and applicants will be appointed to the appropriate level based on their experience and education.

Required experience:

a bachelor's degree in economics or a bachelor's degree including or supplemented by 18 semester credit hours in economics and an additional 6 credits from among the following course work areas: computer science, economics, econometrics, mathematics, operations research, research methods, or statistics; and two years of professional experience collecting, interpreting and analyzing economic information and data to prepare reports; and designing and evaluating long-term simulations and economic models.

Senior economist level requirements:

* economist trainee 1 (equated to sg-14): relevant bachelor or higher degree.

* economist trainee 2 (equated to sg-16): relevant bachelor or higher degree and one year of required experience.

* senior economist, sg-18: relevant bachelor or higher degree and two years of required experience.

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Applicants may also be appointed to this position if currently reachable on the appropriate eligible list for this title or are a current new york state employee with one year or more of qualifying permanent service in a position allocated to a grade 12 or…