About the Position: Serves as a senior analyst, project leader, technical expert, and consultant responsible for providing technical, schedule, cost, budget, and interoperability advice to management in the area of technical requirements, systems integration, program cost, schedule, acquisition strategies, and budget layout. CONTROL POINT This position is subject to a salary control point at to the GS-14, step 10 base salary.

Duties

Serves as a senior analyst, project leader, technical expert, and consultant responsible for providing technical, schedule, cost, budget, and interoperability advice to management. Identifies and resolves highly complex problems that cross organizational, governmental, and international boundaries and promulgates solutions and resolution opportunities. Performs cost, cost risk, and/or economic analyses for difficult-to-define, controversial, new, or novel systems/functions of major agency, national or international impact. Reviews budget and work program estimate submitted by contractors for sufficiency, completeness, soundness, and adequacy. Reviews and analyzes data required for and incorporates in technical reports and briefing to higher headquarters, senior military and high ranking civilians. Participates in reviews and work teams with government and contractor personnel, including international participants.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Incumbent is required to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450 and annually thereafter in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R.
• This position requires temporary duty (TDY) travel up to 10% of the time.
• The employee must be willing and able to travel on commercial aircraft.
• The employee may be required to work overtime.
• Selectee must meet the DoDI 5000.66 requirements applicable to the Career Category of BUSINESS – COST ESTIMATING (BUS-CE) and Advanced Career Level Certification must be met within 48 months of entrance on duty.
• Position is Non-Critical Sensitive (2) requiring a Secret security clearance or the incumbent must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Basic Requirement for Operations Research Analyst 1515:Bachelor's Degree (or higher degree) in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus. In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of specialized experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as performing duties that include: 1.) Performing studies of issues arising in all phases of a system life-cycle. 2.) Using operation and research methods to review/analyzes in order to propose problem-solving techniques for technology, schedule and risk. 3.) Planning, directing, and conducting cost and schedule risk analyses to ensure integration processes are identified. And 4) Review and staffing of Acquisition Milestone Documents for all programs to include multiple acquisition pathways and phases. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade level/equivalent to the NH-03 or GS-13 grade level in the Federal Service. CONTROL POINT This position is subject to a salary control point at to the GS-14, step 10 base salary. Salary for the position will be set within a range from $120,849 to $157,100 with locality. If the incumbent's salary currently exceeds this level, the salary will be at the incumbent's existing salary. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: CommunicationsCost Estimation and AnalysisData Analysis

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address AD-APF-W6DVAA PEO TAC MSL REDSTONE ARSENAL DO NOT MAIL Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk