You will serve as a SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM MANAGER in the Science and Technology (S&T) Program Management Office (PMO) of PERS WASHINGTON. This is an interdisciplinary position which may be filled by any of the following series: Operations Research (1515), Statistician (1530), Economist (0110).

Duties

You will serve as the science and technology advisor in MyNavy HR to assess advancements in computational sciences, modeling and simulation, decision theory, training techniques/mediums/theory, and human performance. You will assess significant manpower and personnel operational problems and identify opportunities to strategically apply research, science, and technical solutions. You will keep abreast of applied research and development activities of other DOD agencies, non-DOD agencies, universities, and contractors, which can contribute to the improvement of manpower and personnel research and development in the Navy. You will plan, budget, and execute MyNavy HR Research Development Test and Evaluation funding to deliver, studies, analyses, prototype technologies, surveys, program evaluations, and business process reengineering programs. You will ensure that program and study plans are economically sound and reprogram projects and funding as necessary to maintain programbalance, meet customer requirements, and capitalize on emerging technologies. You will lead, manage, and evaluate creative, technologically sophisticated scientific personnel and their supporting staff to include career management, professional development, performance evaluation, and performance recognition

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• Some walking, stooping, bending during normal administration routines.
• It requires the ability to work under mental pressure in order to complete difficult assignments, particularly with short-fused timelines.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Assessing advancements in computational sciences, modeling/simulation, decision theory, training techniques, and human performance to solve manpower and personnel challenges; 2) Developing and executing complex research and development studies, analyses, technology assessment, survey, and business processes; 3) Applying performance management and improvement theories with a focus on measures and targets to evaluate and communicate performance against expected results; and 4) Gathering, assembling, and analyzing facts, drawing conclusions, and devising solutions to technical problems across broad functional areas. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Operations Research Series 1515 (opm.gov) Statistics Series 1530 (opm.gov) Economist Series 0110 (opm.gov) Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

POSITIVE EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Each series positive education requirements the applicants must meet are isted below:

Operations Research-1515 Basic Education Requirements:

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.

Evaluation of Education:

The primary requirement of operations research work is competence in the rigorous methods of scientific inquiry and analysis rather than in the subject matter of the problem. Therefore, applicants should have sufficient knowledge of applied mathematics to understand and use the fundamental concepts and techniques of operations research methods of analysis. In addition, some positions may require knowledge of a specific subject area.

Courses acceptable for qualifying for operations research positions may have been taken in departments other than Operations Research, e.g., Engineering (usually Industrial Engineering), Science, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or Management Science.

The following are illustrative of acceptable courses: optimization; mathematical modeling; queueing theory; engineering; physics (except descriptive or survey courses); econometrics; psychometrics; biometrics; experimental psychology; physical chemistry; industrial process analysis; managerial economics; computer science; measurement for management; mathematical models in social phenomena; and courses that involved application of operations research techniques and methodologies to problems of management, marketing, systems design, and other specialized fields; or other comparable quantitative analysis courses for which college-level mathematics or statistics is a prerequisite. Courses in theory of probability and statistics are highly desirable, but are not specified as minimum educational requirements because to do so would possibly exclude some applicants who would otherwise be well qualified.

Statistics-1530 Basic Education Requirements:

1. 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.

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2. 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.

Economist-0110 Basic Education Requirements

1. Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus.

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2. Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A 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.

Contacts

• Address PERS WASHINGTON 701 South Courthouse Road Arlington, VA 22204 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]