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Your role

Frontier Economics provides economic consulting services to public and private sector clients across various industries and sectors, including energy, climate change, telecoms, transport, water, natural resources and financial services. Making an impact on their clients means understanding their circumstances and critical issues – whether this is the commercial reality of their business, the forces driving customer behaviour, the implications of regulatory decisions, or even the political context. In all cases, they base their advice on sound economic frameworks and pride themselves on their empirical work, generating results that can withstand even the closest scrutiny. The methods and models they use are often complex, but their advice is always succinct, clear, honest and reliable.

They take on a handful of interns in the Sydney and Melbourne offices in the winter and summer Australian university holidays. They highly value individuals who can integrate strong problem-solving abilities and purposeful communication. All internship positions at Frontier Economics are paid positions.

Working as an Intern at Frontier Economics could involve:

• working within small teams on projects in one of the sectors they are involved in to deliver transparent and well-thought-out results
• working and solving complex problems using data – whether small, medium or big data
• researching or investigating issues or economic challenges facing their clients
• writing reports and/or presentations on findings in line with project deliverables

About you

Please ensure you meet the following compulsory requirements for the internship program before applying:

• be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or permanent resident in Australia, at the time of applying for the program
• currently studying for a second-year bachelor's degree with majors in economics, econometrics, business analytics or finance, and with strong academic results
• have your own living arrangements for the course of the internship in either Melbourne or Sydney

The ideal candidate will have:

• good data handling, management and analytical skills
• an eye for detail and a devotion to quality control and self-improvement
• outside-the-box problem-solving skills
• competency in Microsoft Excel and/or a language such as R or Python
• excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

Here are the benefits that Frontier Economics offers:

• Flexible working
• 28 days holiday allowance plus the option to purchase an additional 10 days
• Health and Wellbeing Programme 
• Life and Income Protection Insurance
• Vision care
• Casual dress code
• Leave for charitable activities
• Matched fund-raising
• Snacks and drinks bar
• Regular company-funded social events

Training, development & rotations

Their Internship Programme gives you the chance to work on meaningful projects that impact the success of key projects. You are not alone, and you will be working with a variety of colleagues from analysts to directors. You get to fully immerse yourself into life at Frontier, involving yourself in a range of company activities, like writing the weekly newsletter or arranging a seminar. It’s not all work, they run social events to help you engage with other interns and people from the business.

How to apply

If this position appeals to you, please fill in the job description form. In your cover letter, please tell a bit about you, your interest in economics and why an internship would benefit both yourself and Frontier Economics (no more than 2 pages).

Sources

The following source was used in researching this page:

• frontier-economics.com.au/careers/
• as-fe-cwh-prodadmin-suk.azurewebsites.net/media/stvbpjlf/build-your-future.pdf