Duties

• Developing comprehensive and complex economic studies.
• Evaluating, analyzing and determining impacts of legislative alternatives and proposals.
• Serving as authoritative technical advisor to provide informed interpretation of policy alternatives, observed economic phenomena, and forecasts of economic movements.
• Negotiate with or influence others to gain their commitment to pursue new initiatives or technologies.
• Skill in determining the impacts of policy proposals and/or preparing in-depth analyses.
• Collates, cleans, transforms, analyzes, and integrates structured and unstructured data from various sources in preparation for analysis.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• You must be a US Citizen or US National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.

Qualifications

NOTE: THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2023. THIS EXTENSION IS DUE TO SCHEDULED SYSTEM MAINTENTANCE FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 AND SUNDAY, JANUARY 29.

Basic Education Requirement: Applicants must possess a degree in economics that includes at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus. (You must submit your college transcript(s) with the conferred date.), AND meet the following specialized experience requirements.

At the GS-13 level: Besides the basic education requirement listed above, you must have at least one full-time year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in federal service or comparable experience not gained through federal service. Specialized experience must demonstrate a mastery of economic issues regarding safety net, conservation and/or credit programs to include the following: 1) Developing comprehensive and complex economic studies, 2) Evaluating, analyzing and determining impacts of legislative alternatives and proposals and dissemination to policy officials; 3) Serving as authoritative technical advisor to provide informed interpretation of policy alternatives, observed economic phenomena, and forecasts of economic movements; 4) Consult and collaborate with statistical, data science, economics and agricultural professionals in the collection, linkage, processing, mining, coding, classification, and analysis of administrative data; 5) Collates, cleans, transforms, analyzes, and integrates structured and unstructured data from various sources in preparation for analysis.

Education cannot be a substitute for specialized experience at this grade level.

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the 02/03/2023 of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions, specialized experience and/or education, as defined above.

Time in grade: Current federal employees applying for a promotion opportunity must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirement of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level (GS-12) in the normal line of progression for the position being filled.

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; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

College Transcript: There is a Basic Education Requirement for this series. You must submit a copy of your transcripts to include course number, title, completion, grade and confer date of degree. Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If a relevant course is not clearly qualifying (e.g. special topic, seminar, research, thesis, obscure or misleading course title, etc.), please submit an official course syllabi and/or detailed course description from the university/college for that particular course to ensure you are properly evaluated. Please note that qualifications determinations are based solely on the information submitted for each particular vacancy announcement.

Important: If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency (in English) with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.

Failure to provide all of the required documents/information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

Additional information

• Locality Salary tables may be found at: 2023 Locality Salary Tables
• Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), Reemployment Priority List (RPL), or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): Visit the OPM website for information on how to apply as a CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP eligible. To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/RPL/ICTAP candidates must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors. CTAP/ICTAP candidates must be rated and determined to be well qualified (or above) based on an evaluation of the competencies listed in the How You Will Be Evaluated section. When assessed through a score-based category rating method, CTAP/ICTAP applicants must receive a rating of at least 85 out of a possible 100.
• Veterans who are preference eligible or who have been separated from the armed forces under honorable conditions after three years or more of continuous active service are eligible for consideration under the Veteran's Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA)
• Farm Service Agency (FSA) County Employees: Permanent County employees without prior Federal tenure who are selected for a Civil Service position under Public Law 105-277 will be given a career-conditional appointment and must serve a 1-year probationary period.
• Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) provides current or former temporary or term employees of federal land management agencies opportunity to compete for permanent competitive service positions. Individuals must have more than 24 months of service without a break between appointments of two or more years. Service must be in the competitive service and have been at a successful level of performance or better. Refer to PUBLIC LAW 114-47-AUG. 7, 2015 for more information.
• A recruitment incentive may be authorized.