Economist

Salary: £55,516 plus excellent benefits

Contract type: Permanent, full-time or part-time

Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week.

All staff are required to work in person for a minimum of two days per week, in line with our hybrid working policy. However, for this role we are also open to discuss condensed / part-time / job shares. The post-holder may be required to undertake some work outside normal working hours.

About the Health Foundation

Health is our most precious asset. Good health enables us to live happy, fulfilling lives, fuels our prosperity and helps build a stronger society. Yet good health remains out of reach for too many people in the UK, and health and care services are struggling to provide access to timely, high-quality care.

The Health Foundation is an independent charitable organisation with a mission to build a healthier UK. We work to achieve this by generating high quality research and analysis; developing practical solutions to the biggest problems in health and health services; engaging, convening and building coalitions to build understanding, inform debate and drive action; and developing the long-term capability needed to transform health and care.

More about us

Our values

We expect everyone who works with us to be committed to our values and to share our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. Our values are impact, evidence, integrity, and collaboration. You can read more about them in our five-year strategy. We also expect everyone to share our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation and to help deliver our EDI strategy.

About the role

This role sits in the Economics team in the Analysis directorate. You will work closely with other colleagues across the Economics team, the Analysis directorate and the wider Foundation. You will work across multiple projects including rapid responsive work and innovative in-depth economic analysis to influence a range of audiences. You will build relationships and fruitful collaborations with internal and external stakeholders, producing high quality innovative analytical products.

Key responsibilities are as follows:

• Working with senior economists to develop and implement plans for modelling and analysis, including providing critical challenge to colleagues.

• Ensuring that findings are effectively communicated to relevant stakeholders both within and outside of the Foundation. This will include drafting and editing written pieces for policy and academic audiences, presenting analysis, and discussions at meetings and workshops.

• Presenting work internally to colleagues in the Analysis Directorate and other teams with the Health Foundation, and externally to relevant policy stakeholders.

• Providing support or guidance to more junior members of the team, such as economic analysts and apprentices.

• Supporting the team to scope and develop its work programme and ways of working.

• Working with the team's Data Manager to obtain data as necessary and ensuring they are managed appropriately.

• Providing economic and analysis-based input and advice to Health Foundation colleagues as required.

How to apply

Our priority is to find the right individual for each opportunity. We are dedicated to building an inclusive workplace that values diversity and we invite you to find out more.

You can find the job description for the role here. If you would like to apply, please submit your CV, and a supporting statement that answers the following application questions:

1. Why would you be well suited to this role? What skills, knowledge, and experience would you bring to it? (max. 300 words)

2. Describe a specific project in which missing, inconsistent or otherwise imperfect data affected your analysis. What decision did you make about how to proceed, why did you choose that approach, and how did you communicate its limitations? (max. 300 words)

3. Describe a time you explained a complex economic finding to a non-specialist audience. What was the main message, how did you adapt your explanation without losing an important qualification, and how did you judge whether it was understood? (max. 300 words)

Our commitment to equality, inclusion and diversity

We are committed to an inclusive hiring process, where every candidate has the chance to showcase their unique skills and experience in an accessible and supported environment, to ensure that we can make the best appointment for each opportunity on merit.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage those from underrepresented groups in this field to apply to us. We have identified three key areas to improving diversity. Our aim to achieve a more balanced representation across our organisation, with a particular focus on increasing the number of women in leadership, enhancing the representation of people from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds and welcoming more people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we strongly encourage applications from these groups.

Apply to join our team and let's work towards building a more diverse and inclusive workplace together.

If you require any support through this process, please contact resourcing@health.org.uk. Help us work together to make the recruitment process and potential future employment more accessible and enjoyable for you.

If you would like an informal chat about the role, contact eric.yang@health.org.uk.

Closing date: Monday 26 October 2026 at 23:59

Interview date: Week commencing 16 November 2026 | Online via MS Teams