Supervisory Economist/Statistician (Economics)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making.

This position is with the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Field Operations, Dallas Regional Office serving as the Regional Commissioner.

Qualifications:

You must meet the Basic Requirements and the Specialized Experience to qualify for this position as described below.

Current federal employees must meet eligibility requirements of time-in-grade (52 weeks at the next lower grade), and time-after-competitive-appointment (90 days). These requirements must be met within 30 days of the announcement closing date.

This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled either as an Economist or Statistician (Economics).

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

Economist, GS-0110:
A) Degree in economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting or calculus.

OR

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

Statistician (Economics), GS-1530:
A) Degree that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc. Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods, e.g., courses that included studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements or business cycles, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing.

OR

B) A combination of education and experience - courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance.

Specialized Experience
In addition to the basic requirement above, applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-14, in the federal service. This one year of specialized experience must be in or related to the field of economics or statistics and must have equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. This experience must demonstrate a thorough understanding of economic principles and theories and a wide knowledge of current economic factors and their implications.

Examples of qualifying experience include:

1. Organizing, directing and coordinating complicated and important economic research programs; OR
2. Developing new methods of economics analysis or new economic knowledge of value to Government officials responsible for important decisions on economic programs or services.

For additional information, refer to the Office of Personnel Management Operating Manual for Qualification Standards, Group Coverage Qualification Standards for Professional and Scientific Positions. Individual Occupation Requirements for Economist Series GS-110. Individual Occupation Requirement for Statistician Series GS-1530.

Responsibilities:

This position is the Regional Commissioner for the Dallas Region and performs the following duties.

• Provides executive leadership for management of all BLS regional programs and resolves conflicts among subordinate divisions or staff offices.
• Manages field programs coordinating regional BLS programs with the nationwide activities of national office administrations, divisions, and offices within BLS and with other Federal agencies which have programs in the region related to or affecting the regional BLS programs.
• Directs staff, primarily through subordinate managers, coordinating and administering BLS programs and activities in accordance with BLS national office policies.
• Plans, formulates, develops, and executes region-wide programs and policies to carry out the mission and objectives of BLS and provides executive direction to subordinate organizational elements within the region to assure appropriate program emphasis and accomplishment of priorities
• Maintains professional liaisons with key executives of other public agencies, including municipal, State, and Federal agencies, as well as with officials of business, industry, private research agencies, universities, management and labor organizations, trade and professional groups, and the press.
• Develops regional program plans for achieving assigned goals and objectives and evaluates regional program accomplishments and the overall performance of subordinate divisions.
• Oversees the expenditure of allotted funds and the personnel activities within the region.
• Directs field tests of experimental studies; takes part in the development of new studies; serves on task forces and committees concerned with study development and execution; and guides the development and publication of studies which are useful to regional clientele.

Salary : $160,836