Director - Economic Strategy Practice

**About Us**

Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We enable consumer access to technology and lead countries to Fair Tech. To do this, we create the environment that allows governments to adopt technologies effectively and responsibly by analysing global trends for the risks and opportunities they create for technology businesses and users of technology, identifying strategies to mitigate those risks and driving opportunities to our clients’ advantage. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington —and are growing.

**Economic Strategy Practice**

The Access Partnership Economics Strategy practice is a team of economists, econometricians, and public policy advisors.

We advise our clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors on the forces shaping their markets, and enable them to make better informed decisions by leveraging rigorous analysis supported by robust evidence, with the purpose to drive growth and improve well-being for themselves as well as the communities they are part of.

We combine the robustness of economic analysis with a practical appreciation of business and government, to support our clients in making and communicating their critical investment and public policy decisions.

We have three broad focus areas: Digital Economy & Trade, Economic Development, and the Future of Work. We are committed to helping solve the world’s most complex problems.

**What you'll do**:
As a Director within Economics Strategy, you will play a key role in practice leadership, be a though leader, as well as a people and project leader.

You will have a solid background in economics and econometrics, and a passion for using your economics training to work with clients to solve their real world problems. You will also be intellectually curious and thrive on playing a role in addressing challenges at the intersection of economics, public policy, and technology. You will be an adept problem-solver, able to support your project teams to arrive quickly at critical issues and guide them on the approach to resolve them.

**Communications**
- Ensuring that client proposals, research reports, presentation materials, and other products, are at a client-ready level of quality.
- Effectively influencing, through strong written and verbal communications skills, senior stakeholders, both internal and external, and independently leading significant engagements with external stakeholders.
- Effectively building and maintain a strong network of external supporters, from industry, academia, and government.
- Effectively representing the Economics Strategy practice within the firm, amongst cross-practice project teams.
- Supporting the Practice Head in providing practice and project updates to senior management and central teams, as required.

**Team Leadership and Talent Management**
- Maintaining a curious mindset and fostering a practice and project environment that encourages and rewards curiosity among team members.
- Being a strong team leader, by always supporting the team.
- Providing guidance and mentorship to practice team members.
- Supporting the Practice Head to build, develop, manage, and motivate a high-performing practice team.

**Operational Excellence**
- Meet regulatory and internal compliance requirements.
- Ensuring existing workflows and processes are adhered to, and constantly looking for opportunity to improve efficiency.
- Helping to create a culture of quality, by implementing quality assurance measures and risk management approaches on projects, to ensure high client satisfaction.
- Supporting the Practice Head to ensure that the individual billability targets for members of the practice team are met, and that the financial performance of the overall practice is achieved.

**Project Management**
- Ensuring strong project governance, so that the structure of accountability and responsibility support effective project delivery and output quality, as a means of ensuring client delivery success.
- Supporting the project teams to monitor billability and productivity of its members, as well as gross margins on the project overall, to ensure cost-effective client delivery.
- Helping to address challenges around client delivery, including by anticipating and ongoing management of project risks and interdependencies within and across projects, to help ensure successful client delivery.
- Supporting the Practice Head to drive a strong project management culture.

**Customer Focus**
- Building strong client relationships by delivering real client value through a genuine understanding of client needs.
- Ensuring high client satisfaction through high quality delivery, clear communication, and appropriate responsiveness.
- Bringing a commercial mindset to client discussions, with a clear understanding of our role and value-add as a professional advisors.

**Strategic Plann