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1:00 am, April 7, 2008
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WANTED: CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR

ORGANISATION: Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive

JOB DESCRIPTION: Providing strategic advice to the body in charge of strategy and investment decisions relating to public transport within Greater Manchester, ranging from the buses, trains and Metrolink to the Transport Innovation Fund bid and its plans for congestion charging.

MOST IMPORTANT TASKS: A central role in carrying out practical economic appraisals and technical content for internal business cases and submissions for central government approval, as well as advising GMPTE management about the economic implications of their decisions.

CREDENTIALS NEEDED: The role requires an in-depth understanding of transport economics based on several years' experience either in the public or private sector, especially of working on appraisals of transport related programmes.

UPSIDE: What Manchester does today, the rest of the country tends to follow, especially where regeneration and city governance is concerned. The focus is now very firmly on public transport, so the person who gets this job will be blazing a trail at the forefront of change. Make a success of it and a lucrative future as a consultant beckons.

DOWNSIDE: TheTIF bid is high risk and any number of things could go wrong. Meanwhile the economic adviser will have to keep an eye on the day job, which involves managing the relationship between the GMPTE and the widely differing requirements of the Department for Transport, the Office of Fair Trading, local and national operators and the business community. Oh, and the fares have to be kept down.

SALARY: “Competitive”

RECRUITER: Veredus