Qualifications
GS-11: In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-09) or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing most or all of the following duties: (1) Creating models in different operating environments; (2) Performing analysis through various modeling techniques; (3) Planning and developing theory and methodology; and (4) Developing reports of model conclusions including charts, tables, dashboards, and presentations.
GS-12: In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11) or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing most or all of the following duties: (1) Performing research and major analytical studies on safety related topics; (2) Translating research into project phases, planning methods of approach, subdividing projects into significant phases, collecting data, and interpreting results; (3) Performing statistical analyses, forecasting trends, and risk analyses using modeling and simulation; (4) Developing reports, charts, tables, and presentations based on data and analysis; and (5) Receiving, coordinating, and modifying requests for modeling and simulation.
GS-13: In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-12) or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing most or all of the following duties: (1) Coordinating project development and management, justification, plans, schedules, study plan development, and support requirements with analysts, engineers, commanders, staff representatives, agency executives, customers and appropriate organizations; (2) Translating research to project phases, planning methods of approach, subdividing projects into significant phases, collecting data, modifying methodology or theory as needed, interpreting results, and deriving recommendations and conclusions; (3) Performing practical application of Data modeling (Dimensional & Relational) concepts like Star-Schema Modeling, Snowflake Schema Modeling, Fact and Dimension tables and performing end to end data and process modeling skills, source to target mapping techniques, and data flow diagrams; (4) Initiating and performing research and major analytical projects on safety related topics, which often lack precedents or previous research involving application of analytical techniques to develop studies of issues that involve considerable complexity; (5) Receiving, coordinating, and modifying requests for modeling and simulation to conform to available data if time constraints are present, advising requestors as to the feasibility of requests, and proposing alternate methods and data when preferred data is not available; and (6) Developing reports of model conclusions including charts, tables, dashboards, and presentations.
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
Basic Requirements:
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.
In addition to the above basic requirement, in lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience:
GS-11:
Master's or equivalent graduate degree OR a combination of education and experience
GS-12:
Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR a combination of education and experience
GS-13:
There is no substitute of education for experience for this series at this grade level.