The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) manages the exploration and development of the nation's offshore resources. It seeks to appropriately balance economic development, energy independence, and environmental protection through oil and gas leases, renewable energy development and environmental reviews and studies. For information about our bureau go to: http://www.boem.gov/

Duties

This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Office of Strategic Resources (OSR), Marine Minerals Division (MMD) in Sterling, Virginia. At the full performance level (GS-12) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following: Ingests, creates, processes, maintains, secures, uses, and archives data to bring value to BOEM decision making and improve business outcomes. Assists in and supports formulation, development, and implementation, and practices technical applications of BOEM's data and support the Marine Minerals Program MMP (e.g., scientists, business users) data needs. Serves as data analyst to support and assist with solving tangible business problems, manipulating data using tools like Structured Query Language (SQL), R or Python computer programming languages, visualization software and statistical analysis. Uses experience and/or graduate level education in data and marine sciences, and relevant methods and analytical techniques, to perform specialized analyses, or participate in or support leasing and research related to the Marine Minerals Program (MMP). Analyzes, interprets, and supports data solutions that enable BOEM to make effective use of data in business decisioning. Assists in preparing content for documents, Departmental and Bureau correspondence, and briefing materials supporting marine minerals or environmental matters, including those related to decisions, public or stakeholder inquiries, and or congressional requests. Applies procedures and works jointly to improve the conduct of data use, processing, findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability related to the MMP and advance data stewardship of mineral or environmental resources. Collaborates with scientists, data stewards, and analysts to identify and close gaps on marine minerals problems; devise creative data collection strategies to fill marine minerals gaps. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval. Salary Information: GS-9: $68,405 - $88,926 per annum GS-11: $82,764 - $107,590 per annum First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the lower salary range of the grade level. This vacancy may be used to fill additional positions as vacancies become available. This vacancy is also announced as BOEM-MMCC-24-AW-025(DEU) for those applicants who wish to apply and be considered under Competitive Examining procedures.

Requirements

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification Requirements: To qualify for this position you must meet the Basic Educational Requirements AND Specialized Experience AND/OR Education for the series/grade to which you are applying. (1) Basic Educational Requirements:Please Note: This position requires specific educational coursework to qualify. You MUST provide transcripts (unofficial are acceptable) in order to verify that the educational requirements have been met. This information must be received by the closing date of the announcement. Failure to provide this information may result in you receiving an "INELIGIBLE" rating. Data Science Series, 1560: Individual Occupational Requirements (1) Basic Educational Requirements: To be eligible for this position, you must meet either A or B below for the series to which you are applying. A. Degree: Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position. OR B. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience. Physical Science Series, 1301: Individual Occupational Requirements (1) Basic Educational Requirements: To be eligible for this position, you must meet either A or B below for the series to which you are applying. A. Degree: Physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience: Education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. -AND- In addition to meeting the Basic Educational Qualification requirements, applicants must have either A. Specialized Experience or B. Education (directly related) or C. Combination of Education and Experience to qualify for the grade to which you are applying. A. Specialized Experience: GS-9 To qualify for the GS-9, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: Performing data preprocessing, including data cleaning, normalization, and standardization; AND Reviewing, analyzing, and providing information from multiple systems and sources to prepare data reports: AND Reading, interpreting, modifying and executing basic scripts. MUST MEET ALL. -OR- Education: 2 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree. -OR- Combination of education and experience: A combination of successfully completed graduate education and specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level that totals 100% of the requirement for this grade level. GS-11 To qualify for the GS-11, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: Analyzing and interpreting data modeling, algorithms, and coding data requirements; AND Writing basic scripts to normalize, manipulate and enrich datasets; AND Using data tools and techniques to process datasets into structured formats for matching, analysis, or estimation. MUST MEET ALL. -OR- Education: 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. -OR- Combination of education and experience: A combination of education and experience that totals 100% of the requirement for this grade level. Note: Only graduate level education in excess of 36 semester hours may be applied toward the combination at this grade level. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.asp All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Merit Promotion candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

Education: If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide transcripts as proof of meeting the requirements.

Foreign Education: Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the specific educational requirements as stated above. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4

Contacts

• Address Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 45600 Woodland Road Sterling, VA 20166 US
• Name: HR Assistant 5
• Phone: 703-787-1446
• Email: [email protected]