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Economist, Mid (Public Trust) : 2084 Description

Location: Bethesda, MD (Hybrid)
Clearance: Public Trust (Role may require additional background investigations)
Employment Type: Full-Time

US Citizenship is Required

Praescient Analytics is seeking a highly qualified Economist to support the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in modernizing its data infrastructure and analytical capabilities. This position will will play a critical role in the strategic evolution of how the CPSC utilizes data to protect the public from product-related risks.
The Economist will support complex regulatory and economic analyses to support CPSC rule making activities. This role involves creating sophisticated benefit/cost models, conducting market analyses, and providing expert testimony in legal proceedings. You will leverage a modernized cloud-native environment (Microsoft Azure) to perform advanced statistical analysis and machine learning, ensuring data-driven regulatory responses to emerging consumer product hazards.

• Regulatory Analysis: Perform comprehensive regulatory analysis of CPSC proposed rules, including the preparation of detailed reports for the Commission.
• Economic Modeling: Develop robust benefit/cost and statistical/regression models that adhere to industry best practices.
• Data Acquisition & Analysis: Gather and evaluate vast amounts of consumer product data and industry information for both public and private firms.
• Advanced Analytics: Utilize machine learning and statistical tools within the Azure cloud environment to fully leverage the value of existing agency data.
• Expert Testimony: Provide expert testimony in court cases involving CPSC regulatory actions.
• Strategic Research: Conduct primary and secondary research to improve CPSC benefit/cost estimation methods.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Perform technical interviews with subject matter experts, private industry executives, and government officials.
• Project Leadership: Manage large, complex analytical projects concerning federal regulations characterized by high levels of uncertainty.

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience conducting cost-benefit analysis, economic analysis, and state/federal regulatory evaluations.
• Specialized Expertise:
  • 3+ years of experience reviewing medical expenditure and medical survey data.
  • 3+ years of experience evaluating the effectiveness of health and safety interventions.
  • 3+ years of experience estimating both tangible and non-tangible effects of non-fatal injuries.
• Technical
  
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  • 3+ years of hands‑on experience creating economic models using Python and Azure cloud services.
  • 3+ years of advanced proficiency in MS Excel (e.g., arrays, financial, statistical, and lookup functions).
  • 2+ years of experience with SQL for data manipulation and querying.
  • Proficiency in dashboard visualization tools such as Power BI
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• Communication: Strong oral and written communication skills specifically tailored for data storytelling and executive‑ready presentations.
• Clearance: Minimum of a Public Trust (U.S. Citizenship is Required)

• Real opportunity for career growth in an environment where your achievements will be celebrated
• Constant collaboration with numerous teams to ensure client success
• A team that respects and embraces your ideas and expertise
• Coworkers that are motivated by pursuing excellence, rather than the prospect of personal gain
• A workplace dedicated to supporting and bettering public safety and government agencies
• Very competitive salary based on qualifications and experience
• Comprehensive, Company paid healthcare for you (We pay your premiums and deductibles)
• 401(k) with company match
• Travel & performance incentives
• 3 weeks paid time off (plus Federal Holidays)
• $5K annual training allowance

Praescient Analytics is a Certified Woman-O wned Small Business (WOSB) with over a decade of expertise in advanced analytics, engineering, and Dev Ops, specializing in transforming complex data into actionable intelligence for informed decision‑making. Since 2011, we have supported over 40…