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Economist - DIRECT HIRE
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration · Posted 31 days ago
About the Role
This position is in the Office of Planning and Analytics (OPA), Economic Research and Regulatory Analysis Division, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). You will be responsible for economic analysis and related activities required to support PHMSA regulatory activity and additional assigned economic analyses.
What You'll Do
- →As an Economist, you will: Develop regulatory impact analyses and regulatory flexibility analyses as part of the federal rulemaking process.
- →Collaborate with the Office of Chief Counsel, Office of Pipeline Safety, and Office of Hazardous Materials Safety on regulatory development process.
- →Assess the costs, benefits, efficiency, and impacts of PHMSA's regulatory and safety programs to help provide economic information that can be used as a tool to assess policy decisions made by the agency.
- →Perform a wide variety of complex economic and market research to understand and assess trends in the regulated industries.
- →Develop and apply economic models to evaluate safety and environmental risks to society.
- →Design, develop, model, apply and evaluate data analytic theories, techniques and tools to support both quantitative and qualitative research, emphasizing the capability to discern information from large data sets, including interacting with exploring and visualizing data from any combination of sources.
- →Represent the office and the agency in all regulatory analysis matters before agency officials, the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), industry, and the public.
- →Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of the Division.
- →Ideal Candidate Statement: This position possesses a sound background and work experience in economics related to the energy, chemical, and/orpipeline sectors.
- →The ideal candidate has experience monitoring and evaluating economic and industry trends that influence risks to pipelines, the transportation of hazardous materials, and/or related industries.
- →The ideal candidate would have a graduate or advanced degree in economics, and experience in analyzing the costs and benefits of regulations or other proposals that materially impact society, or experience with analytical challenges of similar complexity.
Requirements
- ✓CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance the organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓SELECTIVE SERVICE: Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for the Selective Service.
- ✓BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION: You will be required to complete a background/security investigation and meet preliminary requirements prior to onboarding.
- ✓GOVERNMENT TRAVEL CARD: This position involves travel.
- ✓A government contractor-issued travel card will be issued and must be retained for official business only.
- ✓PROBATIONARY PERIOD: Applicants may be required to successfully complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed).
- ✓MANDATORY EDUCATION: See the Qualifications section for Mandatory Individual Occupational Requirements.
- ✓You must be a U.S. citizen & meet specialized experience to qualify.
- ✓Submit application and resume online by 11:59 PM EST on the closing date.
- ✓Required documents must be submitted by the closing date.
- ✓Direct Hire Authority/SME will be used to fill this position.
Personality Fit
Job ID: aff625c8-8a46-4c7e-87ba-dc6201cac1e8
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