This position is in the National Office of the United States Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration, Office of Unemployment Insurance, Division of Fiscal and Actuarial Services. This position is inside the bargaining unit.

Duties

This is a career ladder progression position; the duties described below are at the full performance level, GS-13. If selected at a grade below GS-13, the incumbent will serve in a developmental capacity, wherein the work is less complex in nature and the supervisor, or a senior level employee provides specific instruction and guidance. At the GS-13 grade level, the incumbent: Provides expert analysis, guidance, and technical assistance to Federal and state partners on complex statistical modeling techniques utilized to predict which unemployment insurance (UI) claimants are most likely to exhaust their UI benefit entitlement. Uses appropriate software and modeling techniques to create and test the models and ensures model documentation is maintained and updated to reflect any changes. Provides technical assistance to states on trust fund forecasting, benefit financing, and related areas. Develops new state models upon request and implements model modifications and improvements as needed. Develops projections of state unemployment insurance (UI) benefit outlays, workloads, and revenues based on a forecast or set of assumptions for employment, unemployment, and other macroeconomic variables. Independently plans and conducts complex and difficult economic and statistical analyses and research involving topics related to agency programs. Analyzes state law and law changes with respect to benefit outlays, revenues, and trust fund levels and makes recommendations to senior staff on determinations concerning relief from loan interest and/or loan repayment provisions.

Requirements

• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.

Qualifications

This is an interdisciplinary position; individuals can meet the Basic Requirements/Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) of this position by meeting one of the Basic requirements below. You must meet the Basic Requirements/IOR and the "Specialized Experience" to qualify for the Economist, GS-0110-12/13 or Statistician, GS-1530-12/13 position as described below. Basic Requirements/Individual Occupational Requirements: Economist, GS-0110 Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus. OR 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. Experience in related fields that did not involve the use and understanding of economic principles and theories may not be used as qualifying experience for these positions. Special attention on this point should be given to certain types of work that may or may not have provided professional economic experience. The following examples of work require special care in such determinations: economic statistics; industrial surveys; management of individual business enterprises, including farms; industrial planning; writing or editorial work in economic subjects; and financial market analysis. OR Statistician, GS-1530 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 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. In Addition to meeting the Basic Requirements/IOR you must also meet the specialized experience for this position. Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. For GS-12: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-11 in the Federal Service. Qualifying specialized experience for GS-12 includes: Statistical and/or economic theories, principles, and techniques; Using statistical software to collect, manipulate, and analyze economic or other programmatic data; and Knowledge of the laws, regulations, financing systems, and program data pertaining to the unemployment insurance (UI) program. For GS-13: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-12 in the Federal Service. Qualifying specialized experience for GS-13 includes: Statistical and/or economic theories, principles, and techniques; Using statistical software to collect, manipulate, and analyze economic or other programmatic data; Planning and managing data collections, developing estimates, and evaluating statistical validity and predictive model performance; and Knowledge of the laws, regulations, financing systems, and program data pertaining to the unemployment insurance (UI) program. WHEN DOCUMENTING YOUR EXPERIENCE IN YOUR RESUME, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC, NO ASSUMPTIONS WILL BE MADE ABOUT YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE. There is no substitution of education in lieu of specialized experience at the GS-12 or GS-13 grade level.

Education

Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.

If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum course work requirements for this position.

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Contacts

• Address Employment and Training Administration 200 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20210 US
• Name: Shasta Needham
• Phone: 972-850-4755
• Email: [email protected]