Economics Research Analyst II

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔬 Research Analyst

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Comcast

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10,000+ employees

📡 Telecommunications

🏛️ Government

Telecommunications • Data Management • Government

Comcast is a leading telecommunications company that offers a wide range of services including data management, analytics, digital transformation, and strategic planning for both private and public sector clients. They specialize in enhancing citizen experience and engagement through evidence-based policy analysis and organizational transformation strategies. With a focus on utilizing modern technologies, Comcast supports organizations in improving decision-making and operational efficiency.

📋 Description

• Conduct independent technical, administrative, and formal merit reviews of grant applications using established requirements, evaluation criteria, and scoring rubrics. • Assign defensible scores and prepare clear, evidence-based comments identifying application strengths, weaknesses, risks, and scoring rationale. • Evaluate the quality, relevance, credibility, and sufficiency of economic, quantitative, and qualitative evidence presented in applications. • Analyze economic-development strategies, expected outcomes, implementation plans, partnerships, budgets, performance measures, and sustainability approaches. • Apply economic research and policy-analysis methods to regional economies, labor markets, workforce development, entrepreneurship, innovation, capital access, and job creation. • Enter and verify review scores and narrative comments in grants management or application-review systems. • Perform quality-control checks and validate and reconcile applicant, reviewer, scoring, and program data. • Support compilation, ranking, normalization, and analysis of merit-review results and portfolio-level trends. • Conduct applied economic and portfolio research using credible data sources and relevant literature. • Prepare data summaries, analytical memoranda, visualizations, briefing materials, scoring reports, and other decision-support products. • Participate in reviewer training, calibration discussions, project meetings, debriefings, and knowledge-transfer activities. • Maintain reviewer independence, confidentiality, conflict-of-interest compliance, and secure, audit-ready review records. • Identify and escalate scoring anomalies, data discrepancies, unclear criteria, system issues, or schedule risks. • Perform related economic research, data analysis, grant review, and program evaluation duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree in Economics, Applied Economics, Economic Development, Labor or Regional Economics, Public Policy, Finance, or a related quantitative or social-science field. • Six (6)+ years of progressively responsible experience in economic research, economic policy analysis, economic development, program evaluation, grant application review, or a related field. • Demonstrated experience conducting applied economic research and synthesizing economic, labor-market, industry, regional, workforce, or related data. • Demonstrated experience supporting or conducting competitive grant reviews. • Demonstrated experience conducting formal merit reviews, including assigning scores and preparing qualitative comments against established criteria. • Experience evaluating grant applications, proposals, or complex program materials against established requirements, evaluation criteria, or scoring rubrics. • Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills with the ability to reach impartial, evidence-based conclusions. • Experience validating application, reviewer, scoring, or program data and identifying incomplete or inconsistent information. • Working knowledge of competitive grantmaking practices, reviewer independence, confidentiality, and conflict-of-interest requirements. • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate research findings and scoring rationale. • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and other virtual collaboration tools. • Experience using electronic grants management, application-review, workflow, or comparable data systems. • Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple assignments within deadline-driven review periods. • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote environment while handling sensitive information with discretion.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Health, dental, and vision insurance • 401K • "Discretionary" PTO • Professional development opportunities • A dynamic and collaborative work environment