This position is located at Departmental Offices,Tax Policy. As a/an Financial Economist, you will be serving in the Office of Tax Policy as a senior financial economist planning and performing a wide range of professional economic research and analysis.

Duties

As a/an Financial Economist, you will: Plan and conduct research projects, and prepare analyses and evaluations of specific developments and proposals relating to taxes. Develop models to analyze the economic consequences of these tax proposals. Organize relevant data and appropriate statistical analyses to produce displays of useful information. Analyze proposals such as changes in tax rates, changes in the measurement of taxable income, introduction of alternative tax provisions to modify economic behaviors, and modifications of technical provisions of the Federal tax code and regulations. Project consequences of such proposals for conditions such as investment, savings, distribution of income, and Federal tax receipts.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized experience for the GS-15: To be qualified for GS-15 level, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the federal service. This is equivalent to performing the following duties for a minimum of one year: Analyze, interpret, and provide information, analysis, technical advice, and recommendations on transfer pricing rules. Analysis should be supported with statistical, mathematical, and econometric modeling techniques; economics theory; and judgment; AND Establish methods and modeling to support transfer pricing policy objectives. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resumé.

Education

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.

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

OR

B. Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Examples of qualifying experience include:
Individual economic research assignments requiring planning, information assembly, analysis and evaluation, conclusions and report preparation;
supervisory or project coordination assignments involving a staff of professional economists, and requiring the evaluation and interpretation of economic information; or 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.

Contacts

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