Graduate Economist – Glasgow/Edinburgh- 2025 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

Your role:

We are looking for a Graduate Economist to be based in either Glasgow or Edinburgh , joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.

As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort. The Development Economics Team is a dynamic mix of graduates and professionals. You will be part of this supportive and experienced team based in our new Glasgow/Edinburgh office, as part of the national Development Economics offer, where you will work on a broad range of projects. There is so much opportunity to grow and develop as a graduate Economist as you will be joining a well-established team of qualified economists from economics, regeneration, and economic development backgrounds.

You will have achieved or be on target to achieve a degree in Economics with a bias in Economic Development, Urban Regeneration, Urban Planning or Urban Geography. As a Graduate Economist you will work in a dynamic environment and be supported by your team colleagues so that you learn about techniques and approaches to economic analysis from each project you work on. Deploying your skills across a broad range of projects in different sectors provides a great opportunity for inquisitive and analytical candidates.

The team mainly works with public sector clients across the UK, supporting them to make decisions about project delivery, investment, and strategy. You will contribute to a variety of projects including developing business cases to secure funding for regeneration scheme, undertaken economic impact assessments and developing economic and regeneration strategies. The successful candidate will conduct research, prepare reports, presentations, bids and proposals as well as engage with clients, partner and other teams within Stantec.

You will join a supportive team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting multi-disciplinary environment.

Take a look at our Development Economics business line:- Development Economics (stantec.com) and see our Stantec Career Stories here:- Stantec jobsnear.org Career Stories

About you:

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor’s degree in Economics, we’d love to receive your application if you are:-

• A Collaborator: You’ll love to work effectively with lots of different people at different levels, all inputting their part towards a shared goal.

• An Adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.

• A Planner: Organising and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.

• A Striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You’ll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.

• A Multi-Tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.

• A Problem-Solver: You’ll love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.

Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary

• Private medical insurance

• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance

• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec

• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership

• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs ( Graduate Application FAQs ) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!

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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees, working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

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Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment, supporting inclusion & diversity . We prohibit discrimination on the grounds of demographic background in any condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations, and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

We want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support/reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long-term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (e.g. extra assessment time, special access request etc). Please contact Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

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