Duties

Summary

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Coast Guard (USCG), Deputy Commandant for Operations (CG-DCO), Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy (CG-5P), Director/Deputy Director Commercial Regulations & Standards (CG-5PS) & (CG-5PS-D), Standards and Evaluation and Analysis Division (CG-REG-1), in Washington, DC.

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Responsibilities

As an Economist in the Standards Evaluation and Analysis Division, you will serve as a subject matter expert with responsibility for economic analysis and consultant economic services essential to the development of Coast Guard (CG) policy, national standards, and regulations pertaining to the CG's Marine Safety Standards and Regulatory Program. You will, also, create recommendations for policy through economic assessments of impacts, costs, and benefits of alternative proposals for regulatory and standards initiatives in addition to, economic quantification of risks and risk avoidance associated with prospective marine safety and environmental protection initiatives.

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Being a CG civilian makes you a valuable member of the CG team. Typical work assignments include:

• Advising and counseling CG executive and program managers on the most economically effective standards, regulations and CG resource uses from among a wide and highly complex range of alternatives.
• Making authoritative policy recommendations based on the application of sound economic assessments of impacts, cost, and benefits of alternative proposals for regulatory standards and economic quantification of risks and risk avoidance.
• Developing products that includes regulatory assessments, which include analyses of national economic impacts, costs and benefits for range of alternatives, analysis of reporting and record keeping burdens and analyses of prospective impacts on small businesses.
• Serving as an expert economic policy consultant, responsible for representing the Coast Guard at public proceedings, including advisory committee meetings, industry meetings, and public meetings and hearings.
• Managing and directing economic and environmental assessment contracts (as a Contracting Officer's Representative or Technical Program Manager), such as guiding the technical performance of contracted parties and providing economic and environmental policy recommendations.
• Functioning as a team leader and mentor for other economists within the Division on the U.S. regulatory analysis framework (including Executive Orders 12866, 13563, 13771 as well as Circular A-4, Regulatory Flexibility Act, and the Paperwork Reduction Act).

Travel Required

Occasional travel - Occasional travel may be required.

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
14

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Unofficial transcripts are required at the time of application.
• A one-year probationary period may be required.
• This position requires a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI).

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Qualifications

Basic Education Requirement:

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 above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

AND

In addition to meeting the basic education requirements, to qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

Specialized experience includes the following:

• Managing and conducting studies or segments of programs or projects related to basic economic problems;
• Drafting recommendations for policy through economic assessments of impacts, costs, and benefits of alternative proposals for regulatory and standards initiatives;
• Performing regulatory economic quantification for risks and risk avoidance associated with prospective marine transportation industries and the marine environment initiatives.

National Service Experience (i.e., 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; religious; 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.

The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Education

This position does have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here

Additional information

Applicants will be required to complete questions contained on the Declaration for Federal Employment (OF-306) at the time a tentative job offer is made. Certain responses on the form could pose a problem with suitability for employment determinations.

If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete/make updates to the OF-306 and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application, prior to entry on duty.

False statements on any part of the application may result in withdrawal of offer of employment, dismissal after beginning work, or imprisonment.

DHS uses e-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about e-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities at click here

Recruitment incentives may be authorized.

All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit.

The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR § 213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR § 315.707. Veterans , Peace Corps / VISTA volunteers , and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents, experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission. If you are a member of one of these groups, you may not have to compete with the public for federal jobs. To determine your eligibility for non-competitive appointment and to understand the required documentation, click on the links above or contact the Servicing Human Resources Office listed at the bottom of this announcement.

More than 1 selection may be made from this announcement if additional identical vacancies in the same title, series, grade, and unit occur within 45 days from the date the certificate was issued.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for the application and hiring process, please contact 202-795-6358. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Visit Reasonable Accommodation

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your résumé and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will be referred for consideration. The following competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities are needed to perform this job:

Knowledge of regulatory economics, economic theory, and economic practice.

Knowledge of management principles, organizational theory, and techniques of analysis to plan, schedule, and conduct multiple complex and difficult economic research and analysis projects concurrently.

Skill in the rapid identification, location, and assimilation of required new knowledge concerning organizations, programs and issues.

Skill in the application of economic theory, economic research techniques, analytical methods, techniques, and findings, and quantitative and qualitative tools, including computer software.

Ability to represent organization before peers, senior managers, and persons or groups outside the immediate organizations to instruct, train, guide and counsel on the application of economic analysis and to employ economic analysis.

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Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Other

Drug test required
No

Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk

Trust determination process
Suitability/Fitness

Required Documents

1. Your resume
2. If you are claiming special priority selection rights under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), submit a copy of your agency notice, most recent performance rating and most recent SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, noting your current position, grade level and duty location. If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not ICTAP eligible. To be considered eligible, you must be placed in the well-qualified category for this position. Please see ICTAP eligibility.
3. OPM must authorize employment offers for former or current Political Appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information. Submit proof of your former or current status, such as your SF-50. Please see here.

All documentation as outlined above must be received by the closing date of the announcement. If you are unable to submit your documents electronically, you may fax or mail the documents. A fax cover sheet will be provided to you from the system, with fax number and instructions to transmit the requested documents. The required documents will also be accepted by mail and must be received by the closing date of the announcement. The mailing address is COMMANDANT (CG-123HQ), ATTN OFFICE OF CIVILIAN HUMAN RESOURCES (JOBS), US COAST GUARD, 2703 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AVE SE STOP 7912, WASHINGTON, DC 20593-7912.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

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 .

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