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Economist
Employment and Training Administration · Posted 52 days ago
About the Role
Positions are located in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Office of Unemployment Insurance (OUI). OUI is responsible for providing leadership, direction, oversight, and assistance to state workforce agencies in the implementation and administration of state unemployment insurance (UI) programs, Federal unemployment compensation programs, and other wage-loss, worker dislocation and adjustment assistance compensation programs. The positions are inside the bargaining unit.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties for this position: Working on the collection, compilation, analysis, and publication of the weekly Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims data.
- →Independently planning and conducting complex and difficult economic and statistical analyses involving topics related to agency programs.
- →Developing and maintaining statistical data processing and data analysis tools and products using spreadsheet and programming-based applications along with other visual analytics tools.
- →Validates files, tables, and charts related to the assignment.
- →Stays abreast of current and planned changes in source data.
- →Planning procedures for collecting and tabulating data and recommending new or improved methods.
- →Maintaining strict compliance with program data security rules and data verification procedures.
- →Leads the planning and decision-making processes involved in system requirements development, acceptance testing, and implementation of system changes.
- →Preparing documentation of procedures, findings, and problems encountered along with recommendations for resolution.
- →Responding to routine inquiries on program areas, as a key subject matter expert.
- →Reviewing, updating, and/or creating clear and definitive documentation on new and existing procedures for key areas of responsibility.
- →Communicating technical information effectively to varied audiences both orally and in writing in a clear, succinct, and organized manner, as appropriate for the intended audience.
- →Solves major economic problems and draws rational inferences based on findings.
- →Identifies and interprets trends and makes relevant economic forecasts based on data.
Requirements
- ✓Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.
- ✓If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum course work requirements for this position.
- ✓Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 24417b0c-2a2d-4f6d-8c72-3e949056d9c1
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