What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Principal-Interdisciplinary position at Treasury, Departmental Offices?
This position is located at Departmental Offices,Domestic Finance - Office of Financial Research. As a/an Research Principal-Interdisciplinary, you will responsible for planning, leading, and coordinating economic and statistical modeling research projects, applying a wide range of complex statistical models empirical models, mathematical tools and/or computational models to develop sophisticated economic and statistical models and computational methods to support OFR research.
Qualifications:
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.Specialized experience for the Band 70 (GS 15): An applicant must have one year of specialized experience, equivalent to at least the (BAND 60) (GS-14) in the Federal service.
Specialized experience for this position includes:
- Producing major reports and briefing materials on financial market and financial institution topics related to financial stability; AND
- Writing research papers published in academic, peer-reviewed journals related to economic or topics on financial markets, financial institutions, or financial stability; AND
-Leading researcher and analyst teams on projects, coordinating organization resources and process improvements.
Examples that meet the specialized experience include:
-Serving as a senior subject matter expert and project lead on reports or initiatives related to financial stability, monetary policy, or other macroeconomic issues or conditions. OR
-Applying quantitative analytical and research techniques to examine questions concerning financial market and financial institution issues relevant for financial stability and writing or co-authoring papers based on that research that have been published in a relevant academic, peer-reviewed journal or a government working paper series. OR
- Developing reports and briefing materials of financial or statistical analysis and trends for presentation to senior leaders.
Examples that do not meet the specialized experience include:
-Experience related to budgeting, corporate financial analysis, accounting, cost-benefit analysis, cost effectiveness, procurement, data management, data operations, IT management of data, operations research, marketing research, equity or fixed income or other securities analysis; AND/OR
-Experience as a minor contributor to an organization's reports and publications; AND/OR
-Teaching experience below the college or university level and/or outside the fields of economics, finance, or mathematics.
The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resumé.
Responsibilities:
As a Research Principal-Interdisciplinary, you will:- Provide authoritative advice and analytical support to the Deputy Director and/or Associate Director, Research and Analysis Center on key mission-critical issues, initiatives and operations.
- Take the lead or is independently responsible for the initiation, planning, implementation, control, modification and execution of all components of statistical and economic modeling research projects and assignments.
- Develop sophisticated economic and statistical models and computational methods to support OFR research, identification and evaluation of risks to financially stability, and evaluation of financial policies.
- Lead teams of Senior Researchers, Researchers, and Analysts investigating technical requirements to monitor risks to the financial system.
- Collaborate with Data Center staff in selecting and designing software for the modeling and solutions of multi-period stochastic programs, with empirical distributions modeled from simulations.
Salary : $177,167