Deputy Associate Director for Economic Policy

Deputy Associate Director for Economic Policy

Executive Office of the President

Office of Management and Budget

Summary

This position is located in the Executive Office of the President (EOP), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Economic Policy Division. As Deputy Associate Director for Economic Policy, this position is responsible for providing expert advice to the Chief Economist and leadership and technical assistance to a staff of highly-competent economists in the analysis of fiscal, micro-economic, and macro-economic effects of Federal spending, tax, credit, and regulatory policies.

Duties

As a Deputy Associate Director for Economic Policy, some of your typical work assignments may include:

Directs and synthesizes the work of a group of highly-specialized economists and other quantitively-trained analysts in the preparation of sophisticated economic analyses and forecasts.

Provides senior officials of the Executive Office of the President with analysis of economic and financial conditions and their implications for the national economy and the budget.

Chairs meetings that require the identification and resolution of complex and/or contentious issues and leads the successful negotiation of constructive solutions in both one-on-one and group settings.

Conducts economic analyses in order to develop recommendations which serve as a basis for Presidential decisions on a wide variety of national economic and fiscal policy matters, including assessing the impact of Federal government policies and developing the economic forecast used for the President's Budget .