What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Science Service Delivery Evaluation Program Manager position at IBSS?
Job Title: Social Science Service Delivery Evaluation Program Manager
Location: Silver Spring, MD (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
Clearance Required: Public Trust Eligible
Salary: $95K-$110K
Application Deadline: Aug. 30, 2025
To apply, please follow these steps:
NOAA spends billions of dollars each year monitoring and predicting weather, water, and climate threats to help protect lives and property and enhance the nation's economy. However, NOAA's "environmental intelligence” can only achieve its full potential value if risk is communicated effectively, empowering individuals, communities, and businesses to pursue the response options that are best for them.
This position is for the National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Science and Technology (OSTI). Within OSTI, the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES) Program assists with the integration of social, behavioral, and economic sciences (collectively referred to as "social science”) into NWS products, services, and data can improve decision-making by making information easier to understand and more relevant to the users' decision-making needs.
NWS' evolution toward Impact-Based Decision Support (IDSS) requires NWS to understand the bigger picture of the societal impacts of environmental phenomena. Moreover, NWS must use knowledge gained from social science research to better understand the relationship between environmental information and decision-making within the broader society. Recent social science successes point to significantly better user response that results in lives saved and impacts minimized.
This hybrid position will be responsible for planning, designing, and conducting original technical studies and programs of economic and statistical analysis and research concerning various activities within the NWS.
Responsibilities:
Since 1992, IBSS, a woman-owned small business, has provided transformational consulting services to the Federal defense, civilian, and commercial sectors. Our services include cybersecurity and enterprise information technology, environmental science and engineering (including oceans, coasts, climate, and weather), and professional management services.
Our approach is to serve our employees by investing in their growth and development. As a result, our employees bring greater capabilities and provide exceptional service to our clients. In addition to creating career development opportunities for our employees, IBSS is passionate about giving back to the community and serving the environment. We strive to leave something better behind for the next generation.
We measure our success by the positive impact we have on our employees, clients, partners, and the communities we serve. Our tagline, Powered by Excellence, is a recognition of the employees that make up IBSS and ensures we deliver results with quality, applying industry best practices and certifications.
IBSS offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage with a company-paid deductible, paid time off, federal holidays, a matching 401K plan, tuition/professional development reimbursement, and Flex-Spending (FSA)/Dependent Care Account (DCA) options.
IBSS is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Click https://www.eeoc.gov/poster to see that the EEO is the law. Please direct any inquiries to the HR Department email at HR@ibsscorp.com.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to the Talent Acquisition department at Recruiting@ibsscorp.com
Location: Silver Spring, MD (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
Clearance Required: Public Trust Eligible
Salary: $95K-$110K
Application Deadline: Aug. 30, 2025
To apply, please follow these steps:
- Visit https://ibsscorp.com/careers/ .
- Select the position you are interested in.
- Review the job details, then click Apply Now.
- Complete and submit your application.
NOAA spends billions of dollars each year monitoring and predicting weather, water, and climate threats to help protect lives and property and enhance the nation's economy. However, NOAA's "environmental intelligence” can only achieve its full potential value if risk is communicated effectively, empowering individuals, communities, and businesses to pursue the response options that are best for them.
This position is for the National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Science and Technology (OSTI). Within OSTI, the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES) Program assists with the integration of social, behavioral, and economic sciences (collectively referred to as "social science”) into NWS products, services, and data can improve decision-making by making information easier to understand and more relevant to the users' decision-making needs.
NWS' evolution toward Impact-Based Decision Support (IDSS) requires NWS to understand the bigger picture of the societal impacts of environmental phenomena. Moreover, NWS must use knowledge gained from social science research to better understand the relationship between environmental information and decision-making within the broader society. Recent social science successes point to significantly better user response that results in lives saved and impacts minimized.
This hybrid position will be responsible for planning, designing, and conducting original technical studies and programs of economic and statistical analysis and research concerning various activities within the NWS.
Responsibilities:
- Through economic analysis, helping OSTI understand and quantify the societal and economic benefits NWS brings to the nation
- Assisting OSTI in communicating the return on investment to the general public
- Measuring outcomes and improving performance within the organization
- Provide program coordination, support, and execution of SDE projects; manage relationships with end users, and operational personnel; data collection activities; plan meetings; present findings from projects; assist with the review of research proposals; and complete administrative duties.
- Initiate research projects and conduct socioeconomic research including: defining problems, conducting literature reviews, developing research methodology, collecting data, analyzing results, creating data visualizations, and writing reports
- Prepare socioeconomic data for analysis, conduct statistical tests, and interpret and communicate results
- Retrieve data from APIs, FTP and HTTP servers, and other primary or secondary sources
- Work with geospatial data and have knowledge of Esri ArcGIS software
- Provide general support to branch leads and program leads.
- Respond to data calls and general taskers efficiently.
- Conduct quantitative social science research.
- Individuals should possess one of the following: Ph.D. or Masters, in Economics or Social Science
- 3 years of specialized experience in at least one social science field such as economics, econometrics, demography, computational social science, and/or data science.
- Have advanced programming skills in Stata, R, or Python
- Knowledge of SmartSheet, Google Workspace, ESRI Products, Statistical Software Packages, and Microsoft Office.
- Examples of qualifying experience include individual economic research assignments requiring planning, information assembly, analysis and evaluation, conclusions, and report preparation; supervisory or project coordination assignments involving a staff of professional economists and requiring the evaluation and interpretation of economic information.
- Experience with communication and collaboration with stakeholders across multifaceted organizations, identifying opportunities, communicating findings, and delivering actionable insights.
Since 1992, IBSS, a woman-owned small business, has provided transformational consulting services to the Federal defense, civilian, and commercial sectors. Our services include cybersecurity and enterprise information technology, environmental science and engineering (including oceans, coasts, climate, and weather), and professional management services.
Our approach is to serve our employees by investing in their growth and development. As a result, our employees bring greater capabilities and provide exceptional service to our clients. In addition to creating career development opportunities for our employees, IBSS is passionate about giving back to the community and serving the environment. We strive to leave something better behind for the next generation.
We measure our success by the positive impact we have on our employees, clients, partners, and the communities we serve. Our tagline, Powered by Excellence, is a recognition of the employees that make up IBSS and ensures we deliver results with quality, applying industry best practices and certifications.
IBSS offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage with a company-paid deductible, paid time off, federal holidays, a matching 401K plan, tuition/professional development reimbursement, and Flex-Spending (FSA)/Dependent Care Account (DCA) options.
IBSS is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Click https://www.eeoc.gov/poster to see that the EEO is the law. Please direct any inquiries to the HR Department email at HR@ibsscorp.com.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to the Talent Acquisition department at Recruiting@ibsscorp.com
Salary : $95,000 - $110,000
