Economist Trainee*, NS, or Senior Economist; NY HELPS- Albany

New York State Department of Public Service

Recruitment began on February 26, 2026

and the job listing Expires on March 20, 2026

For appointment to an Economist Trainee 1, you must have a bachelor’s degree in economics OR a bachelor’s degree including or supplemented by 18 semester credit hours in economics and an additional 6 credits from among the following course work areas: computer science, economics, econometrics, mathematics, operations research, research methods, or statistics.

For appointment to an Economist Trainee 2, you must have a bachelor’s degree in economics OR a bachelor’s degree including or supplemented by 18 semester credit hours in economics and an additional 6 credits from among the following course work areas: computer science, economics, econometrics, mathematics, operations research, research methods, or statistics;
AND one year of professional experience collecting, interpreting and analyzing economic information and data to prepare reports; and designing and evaluating long-term simulations and economic models.

For appointment to a Senior Economist, Grade 18, you must have a bachelor’s degree in economics OR a bachelor’s degree including or supplemented by 18 semester credit hours in economics and an additional 6 credits from among the following course work areas: computer science, economics, econometrics, mathematics, operations research, research methods, or statistics;
AND two years of professional experience collecting, interpreting and analyzing economic information and data to prepare reports; and designing and evaluating long-term simulations and economic models.

Substitutions:

A master’s degree in economics or econometrics may substitute for one year of the professional experience described above. A  economics or econometrics may substitute for two years of the professional experience described above.

Preferred candidates would have familiarity with system dynamics modeling and related software.

Duties

Description:

The Senior Economist, Grade 18, will work in the Office of Markers & Innovation’s Office of Regulatory Economics, and perform duties that include, but are not limited to:

• Gathering electric market and systems operation data and performing and analyzing economic modeling for the analysis of production-costs, capacity expansion and resource adequacy, congestion, emissions, transmission and distribution power flow, and grid/ancillary services.
• Participating in collaborative staff and industry efforts related to investment planning, developing rules and operating procedures, and technical aspects of energy product markets.
• Presenting expert economic testimony in public hearings before the Public Service Commission or Administrative Law Judges or before other governmental bodies.
• Producing memoranda and written reports for staff and/or outside parties on regulatory economic issues related to the electric, gas, telecommunications, and water industries.
• Analyzing economic issues related to transitioning of wholesale and retail utility markets, econometric sales forecasting, measurement and mitigation of market power, incentive regulation, benefit cost analysis, measurement of marginal costs, and implementing policies required to achieve the State’s carbon reduction and distributed energy resources goals.