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Position Title
Economist
Agency
Treasury, Departmental Offices
Announcement Number
23-DO-78-DH Opens in new window
Open Period
Thursday, November 17, 2022 to Sunday, April 30, 2023
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Eligibilities
1. Do you claim Veterans’ Preference? (limit characters)
2. Are you a surplus or displaced Federal employee eligible under the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)?  Click CTAP for eligibility and a detailed list of required documents you must submit in order to be eligible.
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3. Are you a displaced Federal employee eligible under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)?  Click ICTAP for eligibility and a detailed list of required documents you must submit in order to be eligible.
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Preferences
1. Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position. (limit characters)
2. Select the series you want to be considered for. You must choose at least one series. (limit characters)
3. Are you currently serving or have served in the last five years in a Political Appointment in the Federal Government? (limit characters)
4. Where did you learn about this Department of the Treasury job opportunity? (limit characters)
5. If you were born a male after December 31, 1959, and are at least 18 years of age, have you registered with the Selective Service System (select "Not applicable" if this question does not apply to you)? (limit characters)
Assessment 1
Basic Requirements for Economist, 0110

A. Degree: Economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus. OR
B. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. (limit characters)
Basic Requirements for Mathematician, 1520:

A. Degree: mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics.
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B. Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics), as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. (limit characters)
Basic Requirements for Statistician, 1530:
 
  1. 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.
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  1. 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.
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Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s). (limit characters)
1. Do you meet one of the education requirements or combination of education and experience requirements above? (limit characters)
2. Do you meet the qualifications for Economist, 0110; Mathematician, 1520; or Statistician, 1530? (limit 250 characters)
For the OR-53 (GS-13 equivalent) grade level in the Federal seervice, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the OR-52 (GS-12 equivalent). Specialized experience for this position includes:
- Independently utilizing quantitative methods from statistics, mathematics, or econometrics to research, analyze, develop reports and presentations addressing technical problems related to financial markets or financial institutions.  AND
- Querying large data sets; utilizing SQL (MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and NoSQL (HDFS/Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Impala, etc.) databases; with experience programming in Python and at least one of the following: R, Spark, Matlab, Stata, C, Perl, or Java; AND
- Experience independently performing analysis of economic, financial, or asset-pricing data using Stata, SPSS, SAS, or econometric methods.
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For the OR-52 (GS-12 equivalent) grade level in the Federal service, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the OR-51 (GS-11 equivalent). Specialized experience for this position includes:
- Using quantitative methods from statistics, mathematics, or econometrics to conduct research and analysis of technical problems related to financial markets or financial institutions; and developing written reports and presentations of methods and findings from the analyses, AND
- Querying data sets; working with SQL (MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and/or NoSQL (HDFS/Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Impala, etc.) databases; and programming in Python with experience in one of the following: R, Spark, Matlab, Stata, C, Perl, or Java; AND
- Analyzing economic, financial, or asset-pricing data using Stata, SPSS, SAS, or econometric methods.
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For the OR-51 (GS-11 equivalent) grade level in the Federal service, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the OR-42 (GS-09 equivalent). Specialized experience for this position includes:
- Experience using, under the supervision and direction of senior staff, quantitative methods from statistics, mathematics, or econometrics to research and analyze issues related to financial markets or financial institutions producing written reports and presentations of methods and findings AND

- Experience querying data sets; working with SQL (MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and/or NoSQL (HDFS/Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Impala, etc.) databases; and programming in one or more of the following: Python, R, Spark, Matlab, Stata, C, Perl, or Java; AND

- Experience performing, under the supervision of senior staff, analysis of economic, financial, or asset-pricing data using Stata, SPSS, SAS, or econometric methods.

OR
3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree as described in the individual occupation requirements specified in this announcement.
OR
You may qualify on a combination of education and experience.  To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent.  Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.
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3. Please select the statement which best describes your experience with using quantitative methods from statistics, mathematics or econometrics. (limit characters)
4. Programming experience includes using the following systems: (Select all that apply)
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5. I have analyzed economic, financial, or asset-pricing data using Stata, SPSS, SAS, or econometric methods. (limit characters)
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