Operations Research Analyst, Gs-1515-12 - New London, United States - U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Coast Guard

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New London, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Duties:

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team.

Typical work assignments include:

Assessing trends and innovations and staying aware of relevant developmental efforts, noting gaps in knowledge and technology for meeting operational requirements.
Recognizing promising new scientific and technological concepts and findings in their infancy and demonstrates and evaluates their feasibility and applicability to Coast Guard missions.
Performing comprehensive operations research studies and technical review for substantive program initiatives.
Compiling, organizing, and analyzing data/information to find solutions to problems requiring the use of a broad range of operations research methods and techniques.
Provides authoritative technical advice in own area of mathematical analytic, and/or algorithmic expertise that helps execute and support quantitative studies.
Analyzing and establishing the probable value of new technologies and identifying the most fruitful approaches for understanding costly and high risk developmental efforts.
Evaluating contractor efforts to assess technical progress in relation to established schedule and resources allotted.
Providing expert analysis and evaluations to management that encompass programmatic milestones, schedules and execution required for effective management, operations and decision making in support of a project or program area.
Translating and communicating complex scientific and engineering concepts for a wide variety of senior officials, in order to evaluate and facilitate the implementation of operational solutions.
Planning projects to solve technical problems for which definitions, methods, and/or data are highly incomplete, controversial, or uncertain.

Requirements:

Conditions of Employment:

U.S. Citizenship is required.
Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.

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

Qualifications:

Basic Requirements 1515 Series:

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
AT THE GS-12 LEVEL:To qualify for this position, you must have at least one full year of specialized experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal service performing the following types of tasks on a regular and recurring basis:

Contributing to the development of substantive recommendations to improve agency program operations and management systems;
Under the guidance of senior analyst(s), applies a range of analytical, mathematical, and/or statistical theories, principles, and practices to help plan, coordinate, and execute segments of complex studies;
Under the guidance of senior analyst(s) analyzing the value of new technologies and identifying the most fruitful approaches for understanding costly and high risk developmental efforts;
Conducting simulation experiments, analyzing results, and preparing appropriate technical reports;and
Compiling, organizing, and analyzing data/information to find solutions to problems requiring the use of a broad range of established operations research methods and techniques.

OR

Ph.
D. or equivalent doctoral degree

OR

Combination of graduate level education beyond the first 2 years of progressive graduate study and specialized experience that together meets 100% of the qualification requirements for this position.

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.

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.

Additional information:

DHS uses e-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibilit