Analyst - Economics

Navigant
Washington, DC - United States
S: Competitive

Navigant (NYSE: NCI) is a specialized, global professional services firm that helps clients defend, protect, and create value in the midst of transformational change or when facing significant regulatory or legal pressures. Enhanced by senior level engagement with clients, Navigant professionals provide services that extend from expert and advisory work through implementation and outsourcing. The firm combines deep technical expertise with business pragmatism to address clients' needs in highly regulated industries including Healthcare, Energy, Financial Services and Construction.

Our team of more than 3,000 global professionals are bound through a shared commitment to excellence and purpose of enabling our clients to shape the world. There are several ties that bind regardless of an employees' role in the organization including:
We work on issues that matter to a lot of people, both today and tomorrow.
We navigate complexity and remove barriers so clients can focus on what they do best.
We are invigorated by a good challenge and don't shy away from ambiguity or difficulty.
We anticipate where the world is headed based on our deep market insights.
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Navigant Economics, a subsidiary of Navigant, is comprised of leading academic and industry professionals with backgrounds in economics and finance. We provide economic analyses of legal and business issues for law firms, corporations, and government agencies in addressing their complex business challenges. Our economic consultants work across major industries on issues involving antitrust, valuation, intellectual property, and labor and employment. We assist clients through every phase of a project from defining the problem by identifying key economic issues to gathering facts and data and performing due diligence. We design appropriate methodologies and employ state-of-the-art techniques in all aspects of our research. The testimony, reports and research of our experts has been widely cited by courts, as well as in leading academic and industry journals. .

Responsibilities:

Administrative:

Schedules meetings and events for senior economists
Stewards new engagements through the conflict check and contracting phases
Orders office supplies and coordinates office requests for maintenance or technical service
Manages independent contractors, collecting and submitting invoices each month
Communicates with Clients, prepares Client correspondence, reviews Client bills
Coordinates the arrival/onboarding and departure of staff, guests, interns, and affiliates
Organizes and maintains paper and electronic files
Composes and edits letters, memoranda, papers, and other documents from verbal instruction or from notes
Demonstrates excellent customer service with individuals at all levels both internal and external
Supports document production using printers, copiers, scanners, and binding machines

Communications and Marketing:

Manages website updates and "News" blurbs
Distributes email announcements
Posts articles to online research networks and submits articles to popular and academic journals for publication
Coordinates events, seminars, and conferences
Assists marketing team with drafting and editing practice brochures

Research & Client Engagements:

Completes research tasks for client engagements as requested
Interacts with a wide variety of databases which support the Client's case including posting, searching, modifying, tagging, organizing, and archiving of sensitive legal documents
Writes, proofreads, and assists in the preparation of legal documents and reports

Qualifications:

Experience working with senior level executives and/or academics, in an Economics research, professional services or consulting firm, or an academic environment
Four year college degree is required; experience in academic research preferred
Knowledge of Microsoft Office products; Word, PowerPoint, and Excel and Microsoft Outlook
Knowledge of databases for research
Supervisory experience in a professional services environment
Excellent judgment, and ability to communicate appropriately with senior staff, valued clients from law firms and major companies, and related constituencies
Strong communication skills (verbal and written) including writing, proofreading and editing
Ability to work autonomously and to prioritize and multi-task successfully
Exhibit initiative and professionalism
Flexible hours and overtime hours are required, and may be unexpected at times

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