Economist

This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Office of Strategic Resources and Programs (OSR), Economics Division in Sterling, Virginia.

• Prepare and support analyses of the National OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, including estimates of the social benefits and environmental costs of future oil and gas leasing and the impacts of the program on energy markets in the future.
• Prepare analyses and documents relating to oil and gas, carbon sequestration and renewable energy lease sales, including recommendations for lease fiscal terms and wind lease auction format.
• Provide economic, benefit-cost, and discounted cash flow type analyses that focus on the economic, energy, and natural resource aspects of potential BOEM regulatory authorizations and regulatory alternatives.
• Research and provide economic and socioeconomic analysis of offshore policy issues that integrate state-of-the-art methods, economic considerations, legal requirements, departmental and BOEM policies, and Executive Orders, working both individually and in interdisciplinary teams with other staff within the Economics or other Divisions.
• Implement laws and regulations to ensure compliance of BOEM renewable and non-renewable energy activities with the requirements of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA).
• Review technical, market, and regulatory publications to learn of current economic and socioeconomic research findings and maintain current knowledge of economics, energy markets, and related subjects.

1. You must be a U.S. Citizen.
2. You will be subject to a background/suitability investigation/determination.
3. You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit.
4. You must submit ALL required documents and a completed questionnaire.
5. Selective Service: If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service system, or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law.

To qualify for this position, you must meet the Basic Educational Requirements and Specialized Experience for the series to which you are applying.

(1) Basic Educational Requirements: To be eligible for this position, applicants must meet the Basic Education Requirements for the 0110-Economist series as described below:

A. Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

(2) Specialized Experience Requirements:

GS-12: To qualify for the GS-12, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service.

GS-13: To qualify for the GS-13, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service.

Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.asp

If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide transcripts as proof of meeting the requirements.

Foreign Education: Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the specific educational requirements as stated above. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.

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

For this announcement, all applicants will be reviewed to determine if they meet the basic qualifications for this position, specifically the educational and specialized experience requirements.

Applicants will not be rated or ranked. All applications that are verified to meet the basic qualifications will be referred to the selecting official.

All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated by a resume.

If, upon review, it is determined that your resume and/or supporting documents do not support your answer choices, your application may be removed from consideration.

If you are a status applicant (current career or career-conditional Federal employee or former permanent Federal employee with reinstatement eligibility in the competitive service), or are eligible under a special appointing authority and you are selected under this vacancy, you may be subject to serving a new one-year probationary period.

To preview the assessment questionnaire click: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12563125