Job opening: Research Principal - Interdisciplinary
Salary: $172 201 - 295 500 per year
Published at: Oct 10 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located at Departmental Offices,Domestic Finance-Office of Financial Research. As a/an Research Principal - Interdisciplinary, you will serve as Research Principal planning, leading, and coordinating economic and statistical modeling research projects, applying a wide range of complex statistical models' empirical models, mathematical tools and/or computational models to develop sophisticated economic and statistical models.
Duties
As a/an Research Principal - Interdisciplinary, you will:
Serves as an OFR expert and subject-matter expert directing research analysts.
Take the lead or is independently responsible for the initiation, planning, implementation, control, modification and execution of all components of statistical and economic modeling research projects and assignments.
Develop sophisticated economic and statistical models and computational methods to support OFR research, identification and evaluation of risks to financially stability, and evaluation of financial policies.
Coordinate studies of the full range of methodologies and approaches to research to gain greater understanding of risk to financial stability and explores how a multi-disciplinary research community can be formed from existing research communities.
Lead or independently conduct analysis of the data needs of risk-monitoring systems.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:
For the OR-70, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the OR-69 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes:
Producing major reports and briefing materials on financial market and financial institution topics related to financial stability; AND
Writing research papers published in academic, peer-reviewed journals related to economic or topics on financial markets, financial institutions, or financial stability; AND
Leading researcher and analyst teams on projects, coordinating organization resources and process improvements.
Education
Basic Requirements for Economist, 0110
A. Degree: Economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus. OR
B. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Basic Requirements for Mathematician, 1520:
A. Degree: mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics.
OR
B. Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics), as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Basic Requirements for Statistician, 1530:
A. Degree: that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc. Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods, e.g., courses that included studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements or business cycles, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing.
OR
B. Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance.
Contacts
- Address Domestic Finance-Office of Financial Research
Administrative Resource Center
Parkersburg, WV 26101
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-7300
- Email: [email protected]
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