Health Economist

Location: Auckland, New Zealand; Grafton Campus

Salary: NZD 73,400–90,700 per year, depending on skills and experience

Company

The hirify.global is a large New Zealand university with academic faculties, research institutes, and professional service divisions supporting more than 46,000 students.

What you will do

• Deliver health economics services across the Human Health Research Services Platform.
• Contribute to study design, research protocols, grant applications, and evidence reviews.
• Perform costing, economic evaluations, statistical analyses, and decision-analytic modelling.
• Develop analysis plans and take ownership of assigned work within agreed scopes, methods, and timelines.
• Communicate health economics findings to multidisciplinary research teams.
• Support reproducible, policy-relevant research and the ongoing development of the health economics service.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in health economics, health policy, public health, or a closely related field, with substantial formal training in health economics.
• Hands-on professional experience in health economic evaluation and analysis.
• Sound knowledge of costing, economic evaluation methods, statistical analysis, and decision-analytic modelling.
• Strong data analysis and programming skills, including R, Stata, and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to manage multiple projects independently, maintain accuracy and reproducibility, and escalate methodological or priority decisions when needed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, attention to detail, ethical awareness, and collaborative skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in clinical or human health research.
• Contributions to research publications or competitive grant applications.
• Familiarity with the Aotearoa New Zealand health and research environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time fixed-term appointment for 24 months.
• Flexible employment practices supporting work-life balance.
• Career development programmes.
• Five weeks of annual leave.
• 6.75% superannuation scheme.

Hiring process

• Submit an up-to-date CV and cover letter online before 11 October 2026.
• The cover letter should outline the strengths relevant to the role.