Assistant Vice President

Our Vision: To make New York City the global model for inclusive innovation and economic growth, fueled by the City’s diverse people and businesses.   

Our Mission: Creating a vibrant, inclusive, and globally competitive economy for all New Yorkers. 

Position Overview: The Economic Research & Policy Department (ERP) conducts industry and economic research, performs fiscal and economic impact modeling, and analyzes NYCEDC projects to inform key policy and investment decisions. The team tracks economic trends and provides insights to City Hall, policymakers, and the public, while also developing tools to evaluate, measure, and report on project outcomes. ERP advances high-impact thought leadership on inclusive and innovation-driven economic development. 

The Assistant Vice President will bring advanced expertise in econometrics and data science to ERP, strengthening the department’s ability to evaluate public policies, model economic outcomes, and develop rigorous, reproducible analytical tools. This person will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of sophisticated econometric and quantitative models. Their work will assess how proposed policies, programs, and investments could affect households, businesses, labor markets, government revenues, and New York City’s broader economy. 

The Assistant Vice President will apply econometric methods, causal inference, microsimulation, forecasting, and scenario analysis to complex economic and policy questions. They will establish strong modeling and validation practices, review technical work produced across the team, and help other researchers build their quantitative skills. The role requires deep technical expertise as well as the judgment and communication skills needed to translate complex methods and findings into clear, policy-relevant insights for decision-makers. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain econometric, microsimulation, forecasting, and scenario-analysis models to evaluate the economic, fiscal, and distributional effects of City policies, programs, investments, and changing economic conditions.  
• Design empirical analyses using causal inference, quasi-experimental methods, and statistical modeling to assess policy effectiveness and estimate economic outcomes.  
• Build models that estimate behavioral responses to policy changes, including labor-market effects, price pass-through, demand elasticities, and household or business decision-making.  
• Evaluate model assumptions, validate results, conduct sensitivity and robustness analyses, and clearly communicate uncertainty and methodological limitations.  
• Use R to create reproducible analytical workflows, automate processes, and manage large or complex datasets.  
• Lead technically complex research projects from initial scoping through modeling, validation, and delivery, coordinating with internal teams, City agencies, external researchers, and consultants.