Interim Senior Economist

Tender description

Job purpose • The successful candidate will be responsible for contributing to specific projects within one of the work streams of Water 2020 (as described above.) Key responsibilities within the programme • The successful candidate could be responsible for contributing to specific projects such as:  Supporting the identification of where upstream competition could be introduced to deliver customer benefits and determining how competition can most effectively be introduced.  Providing an assessment of the benefits and risks associated with any changes proposed.  Contributing to the design of new access pricing arrangements to support any market arrangements.  Contributing to the risk and reward work stream – which is looking at how we can ensure that companies are incentivised to deliver customer value and at the same time are fairly rewarded for past and future investments. This will require issues such as RCV allocation and indexation (RPI vs CPI) to be addressed.