This position is in Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Chief Operating Officer (K), Business Management & Development (M), Customer Support Services (MS), Load Forecasting and Analysis (MSL). The purpose of this position is to serve as the supervisor of the Load Forecasting and Analysis organization and a member of the MS management team with responsibility for planning, supervising, and leading all programs, systems, and work processes.

Duties

As a Interdisciplinary Supervisory Industry Economist-Mathematician-Statistical Mathematician, you will: Supervise the highly technical and comprehensive load forecasting functions for Bonneville Power (BPA). Supervise the implementation of new short-term forecasting dynamic modeling approaches for the evolving energy landscape. Provide administrative and technical supervision to a team of employees in diverse technical professions and administrative occupations. Provide and ensure fair and equitable treatment for all employees in implementing HR policies and practices including recruitment, selection, placement counseling, training, career development promotion and adverse action Provide decision authority for the load forecasting program. Represent MSL, MS, and/or BPA in working directly on load forecasts, forecasting processes or methods with internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

Qualifications

BASIC REQUIREMENT To qualify for an Industry Economist or Mathematician, or Mathematical Statistician, you must meet the minimum basic education and/or experience requirements for an Industry Economist or Mathematician or Mathematical Statistician position in the Federal government. Select the response that best describes your education and/or experience. Degree: Industry Economist: Degree: Economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus; OR Have a combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Evaluation of Experience Examples of qualifying experience include: 1.individual economic research assignments requiring planning, information assembly, analysis and evaluation, conclusions and report preparation; 2.supervisory or project coordination assignments involving a staff of professional economists, and requiring the evaluation and interpretation of economic information; or 3.teaching assignments in a college or university that included both class instruction in economics subjects and one of the following (1) personal research that produced evidence of results, (2) direction of graduate theses in economics, or (3) service as a consultant or advisor on technical economics problems. OR Degree: Mathematician: Degree in mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics; OR Have a combination of education and experience - courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics), as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. OR Degree: Mathematical Statistician: Have a degree that included 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, of which at least 12 semester hours were in mathematics and 6 semester hours were in statistics; OR Have a combination of education and experience - at least 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, including at least 12 hours in mathematics and 6 hours in statistics, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS A qualified candidate's resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-13) in the Federal service. Specialized Experience is defined as: Experience leading a project or team or serving as a technical expert in (1) Performing in depth economic analysis on varying conditions to track developments affecting related organizations; (2) Developing databases and forecasting models to determine load forecasting performance and efficiency; and 3) Reviewing a variety of interpretive reports and making recommendations to support business objectives. AccountabilityInfluencing/NegotiatingInterpersonal SkillsLeadershipProblem SolvingStakeholder ManagementStrategic Thinking "Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience. Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations. Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills; and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Time-in-Grade: Current Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement to receive consideration. CTAP candidates: To be considered "well qualified" you must meet all of the requirements as described in this section. You must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

This vacancy has a positive education requirement. In order to be rated as qualified, you must provide copies of your college transcripts. Education must be obtained from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Department of Education Accreditation Search to verify school accreditation.
Foreign education must be reviewed by an organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see the Department of Education website.DO NOT email or mail in any of your application documents. Documents will not be accepted outside of the online application system.
Failure to provide copies of your college transcripts may result in a rating of "Ineligible".

Contacts

• Address Bonneville Power Administration P.O. Box 3621 Portland, OR 97208 US
• Name: Richard Howard
• Phone: 5032303230
• Email: [email protected]