State of North Carolina

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The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS), Office of Emergency Management is seeking a highly qualified applicant to fulfill the role of Hazard Risk Economist (Economist lll). This position is responsible for gathering, designing, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting of data, models, and methodologies associated with the economic impact and resilience associated with hazards/threats on state and local governments, and critical infrastructure sectors.

The incumbent will be the programmatic and technical lead associated with hazard risk econometrics, including: data requirements, econometric model design, construction, testing, maintenance, analysis, manipulation, and interpretation of results.

The Hazard Risk Economist will determine data sources and conduct complex primary data gathering studies, presenting these results to experts. The incumbent must fully understand the principles and techniques of economic research, econometrics and price theory, while possessing the knowledge of sources of economic and statistical information required to construct and conduct complex econometric studies from a problem statement and general guidelines.

The North Carolina DPS, Office of Emergency Management works collectively with state and local partners to help North Carolinians effectively prepare for, respond to, recover from and mitigate against all hazards and disasters. More information on the Office of Emergency Management can be found at: www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/Emergency-Management