In this role, you will support the efforts of our clients, including cities, counties, regional authorities, state departments of transportation, transit agencies, and water, wastewater and stormwater utilities to identify appropriate infrastructure investments, develop funding and rate plans to enable implementation of the recommended projects, and supporting clients in implementing the recommended financing plans for those projects. A key part of this work is anticipated to include leading projects that include developing economic and financial models, such as benefit-cost studies and pro forma financial model projections, to support clients in developing competitive federal and state funding applications to secure grants and low-interest rate loans to support the projects, and financial models needed to support financial planning and rate studies. You will collaborate with diverse teams at Jacobs such as our federal grant writing experts, government relations team, transportation and water planners and engineers, fellow economists, resiliency specialists, and many others to understand our clients’ infrastructure projects and funding needs, and ultimately to develop technical economic and financial analyses to support competitive federal and state grant applications. You will also support clients in securing funding from the municipal bond market and rate and fee increases.
Typical assignments that the Senior Economic and Financial Consultant is envisioned to support include the following:
• Lead funding strategy and financial planning projects to help identify the appropriate mix of outside funding, debt, and equity funding sources to implement capital projects and pay for ongoing operation and maintenance expenditures
• Lead Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) prioritization studies and other related studies to help identify the appropriate sequencing of capital projects and related operating initiatives for municipal, regional, and state clients.
• Lead business case analyses, financial pro forma projections, benefit-cost analyses, cost of service, rate and valuation models and other related forms of economic and financial analysis with support from more junior members of the financial services team;
• Lead pursuits for economic and financial studies or financial tasks within larger multi-disciplinary pursuits, including development of appropriate scopes of work and fee estimates for economic and financial consulting tasks.
• Present findings of economic and financial studies to client staff and governing bodies;
