SUPERVISORY OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST
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Major duties
- You will serve as the Branch Head in the Division of analytics and Performance Optimization Office of the Assistant Commandant.
- You will facilitate the migration to a future state in which vested stakeholders see challenges and potential solutions as a shared interest and collaborate and learn.
- You will conduct data analytics, program evaluation, and research integration.
- You will oversee the collection, maintenance, storage and monitoring of data in order to perform advanced mathematical and statistical modeling of results and conditions.
Qualifications
In addition to the basic education requirement, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Leading data analysts and managing contracts while demonstrating expertise in advanced statistical modeling, mathematical optimization, and decision analysis; and ensuring the division's ability to conduct scientifically rigorous studies and communicate complex technical findings to senior leaders. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/operations-research-series-1515/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.
Education
Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess: Degree: in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.