This position is located at Departmental Offices,International Affairs. As a/an International Economist, you will provide a wide range of professional economic analysis within the Office of International Affairs at the critical sensitive security level.

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-14. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. *All applicants are required to respond to the two essay questions at the end of the online questionnaire. Applicants with blank or perfunctory responses to the narrative questions will not be considered.* Specialized experience for the GS-14: You must have one year of experience at the GS-13 level in Federal service, or equivalent experience in the public and/or private sector, directly related to the position that has equipped the candidate with the particular experience to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Leading or coordinating macroeconomic or financial analysis research projects or teams; AND Using analysis from financial market, international trade, investment, development finance, climate finance, or multilateral development research to formulate policy or strategy recommendations to senior officials; AND Building consensus positions through negotiation and/or collaboration; AND Experience with multiple economic and financial subject areas. Specialized experience for the GS-13: You must have one year of experience at the GS-12 level in Federal service, or equivalent experience in the public and/or private sector, directly related to the position that has equipped the candidate with the particular experience to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Conducting financial analysis on macroeconomics, financial markets, international trade, investment, development finance, climate finance, or multilateral development issues; AND Making policy or strategy recommendations to senior officials/executives; AND Building consensus positions through negotiation and/or collaboration. Specialized experience for the GS-12: You must have one year of experience at the GS-11 level in Federal service, or equivalent experience in the public and/or private sector, directly related to the position that has equipped the candidate with the particular experience to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Conducting macroeconomic or financial analysis; AND Assisting with the formulation of policy options/strategies on issues such as macroeconomics, financial markets, international trade, investment, development finance, climate finance or multilateral development. Specialized experience for the GS-11: You must have one year of experience at the GS-9 level in Federal service, or equivalent experience in the public and/or private sector, directly related to the position that has equipped the candidate with the particular experience to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Conducting macroeconomic or financial analysis with a focus on financial markets, international trade, investment, development finance, climate finance or multilateral development. (This experience could be gained through a variety of professional experiences and be reflected via a wide range of tasks and activities. We are looking for experience such as, but not limited to: drafting research reports about the subject areas; drafting regular and routine market or news updates/digests; reviewing policy memos, white papers, or other written material related to the above broad international policy subject areas and summarizing in written or oral format; analysis of financial or budget documents; drafting external communication materials including reports, posts, newsletters, etc. about the subject areas; leveraging various programming language(s) and/or software tools to conduct any sort of statistical, economic, or financial analysis about the above broad subject areas.) OR EDUCATION: You may substitute education for general or specialized experience as follows: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree. OR COMBINATION: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.

Education

NOTE: Candidates who are in the process of completing the Individual Occupational Requirement below, will be considered as long as the requirements are completed within 120 days of the announcement closing. However, you must graduate prior to being appointed to the position.

Education Requirements:
Economist Series, 0110
Individual Occupational Requirements
Basic Requirements

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

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:

1. economic statistics;
2. industrial surveys;
3. management of individual business enterprises, including farms;
4. industrial planning;
5. writing or editorial work in economic subjects; and
6. financial market analysis.

The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Refer to the OPM instructions

Contacts

• Address International Affairs Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]