Federal Housing Finance Agency

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03/19/2021-04/01/2021

The Chief Economist provides expertise and high impact thought leadership in housing finance and the secondary mortgage market to FHFA’s Executive Office. The incumbent provides intellectual leadership to a team of economists conducting leading edge research focused on the mortgage, housing, and fixed income markets.

Ideal candidates possess a Ph.D. in Economics or closely related field that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus and will have ten + years of specialized experience which include the following:

Substantive senior level professional experience in a research, government, corporate, private or academic organization.

Monitoring, analyzing, and evaluating general and regional economic trends and financial and economic developments that have a direct bearing on housing and mortgage finance industries.

Directing, planning, and conducting research and economic policy and analyses to assess and project the short and long-term impact of issues and structural trends in the housing and mortgage finance industries.

Experience with modern data science and analytic tools and comfort working with economists facile in such tools (e.g. Python, R, SQL)