This position is at the full performance level located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Loan Guaranty Service (LGY). LGY operates a portfolio of programs focused on assisting eligible Veterans in the acquisition, retention, and adaptation of housing. The program enables Veterans to purchase or refinance a home loan at highly competitive rates through the VA-guaranteed home loan benefit.

Duties

Specific duties include: Conducting research and analytical activities using the design of sample frames used to collect data; data quality/validity assessments; variance estimation and inference for sample surveys. Serves as a technical expert with responsibility for the initiation, planning, implementation, controlling, modifying, and executing a variety of complex projects, including tasks such as the formulation of workload estimates for program segments, specification of the methodology to be used, preparation of appropriate specifications and procedures. Provides proactive, well-planned communications of all types and media to program participants and leadership. Analyzing data and results of executed research designs, and statistical and econometric models to ensure accuracy. In particular, the incumbent should be well-versed in research design, modeling and execution of credit underwriting, appraisal and loan servicing policies. Identifying new developments in statistical theory, research design, analytical and data collection techniques or new software and/or technologies that will continually improve a program/organization's analytical capability and ability to make data-driven policy decisions. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Data Scientist; PD# 41699-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:04/01/2024. INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT: This position does have an IOR (Individual Occupational Requirement) that must be met in addition to the Time-in-Grade and regular Specialized Experience qualifications. In order to qualify for this position, you must have experience listed below: 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 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. AND TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50's and/or General Adjustment SF-50's as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level. AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-14 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Specialized experience is defined as possessing a knowledge of and skill in applying a wide range of concepts, approaches, practices, regulations, policies, precedents, and analytical, and procedures related to data science. The incumbent is familiar with the mortgage industry. Recent experience in a commensurate role in a technologically advanced organization is of significant benefit to the performance of key aspects of this role. The ability to apply programming logic, data management, data governance, and data optimization strategies. The ability to apply coding, data, and data processing expertise to solve specific, complex, and high-impact business problems. Other core requirements include expertise and demonstrable experience with: Interpersonal and Communication Skills. Organizational and Situational Awareness. Expertise in federal housing program loan policy and operations. Ability to source, acquire, and validate data sets using established and emerging tools and methods. Ability to translate complex data and analytic results into layman's terms to enable Program understandings and decision making. Given achievement of items above, preference would be toward experience meeting these needs that was earned at least in part within LGY or another major mortgage guarantor/issuer. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; 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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week. Physical Requirements: The work is principally sedentary. Work also may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel to and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site. No special physical effort or ability is required to do the work. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Kenyatta Jensen
• Phone: 410-230-4400
• Email: [email protected]