Regional Economist
Summary
Conducts economic studies and analyses for water resource projects, evaluating benefits of flood control, navigation, and environmental impacts for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
About the Position: Incumbent serves as a Regional Economist in the Economic Branch with the responsibility for the full scope of assigned studies and reports, including the initiation of investigations, planning of methods, analyses, interpretation of findings, and preparation of final reports. These studies include water supply, navigation, flood control, emergency activities, assessments, and other water and related land resource development studies.
Incumbent is responsible for planning, coordinating, and simultaneously conducting several economic studies and evaluations of existing and proposed Civil Works projects.
Plans and conducts research and economic studies pertaining to the overall economic effects and detailed benefits attributable to several alternatives for each project under study.
Determines and evaluates the economic benefits of a combination of several project purposes, including flood control, water supply, navigation, recreation, and other related environmental resources.
Estimates the present and future values of flood control benefits for flood damage reduction and increased land use.
Responsible for coordination, evaluation, and documentation of process which integrates the likelihood and consequences of risk bearing, resulting in alternative means of dealing with the risk.