Economist – Homeland Security Jobs Near Me

Position Summary:

Key Responsibilities:

• Advising and counseling CG executive and program managers on the most economically effective standards, regulations and Coast Guard resource uses from among a wide and highly complex range of alternatives.
• Managing and directing economic and environmental assessment contracts (as a Contracting Officer’s Representative or Technical Program Manager), such as guiding the technical performance of contracted parties and providing economic and environmental policy recommendations.
• Managing and conducting studies or segments of programs or projects related to basic economic problems;
• Making authoritative policy recommendations based on the application of sound economic assessments of impacts, cost, and benefits of alternative proposals for regulatory standards and economic quantification of risks and risk avoidance.
• Performing regulatory economic quantification for risks and risk avoidance associated with prospective marine transportation industries and the marine environment initiatives.
• Developing products that includes regulatory assessments, which include analyses of national economic impacts, costs and benefits for range of alternatives, analysis of reporting and record keeping burdens and analyses of prospective impacts on small businesses.
• Drafting recommendations for policy through economic assessments of impacts, costs, and benefits of alternative proposals for regulatory and standards initiatives;
• Serving as an expert economic policy consultant, responsible for representing the CG at public proceedings, including advisory committee meetings, industry meetings, and public meetings and hearings.
• Functioning as a team leader and mentor for other economists within the Division on the U.S. regulatory analysis framework (including Executive Orders 12866, 13563 as well as Circular A-4, Regulatory Flexibility Act, and the Paperwork Reduction Act).

Required Education & Experience:

• A one-year probationary period may be required.
• Knowledge of management principles, organizational theory, and techniques of analysis to plan, schedule, and conduct multiple complex and difficult economic research and analysis projects concurrently.
• Degree: Economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Ability to represent organization before peers, senior managers, and persons or groups outside the immediate organizations to instruct, train, guide and counsel on the application of economic analysis and to employ economic analysis.
• Skill in the rapid identification, location, and assimilation of required new knowledge concerning organizations, programs and issues.
• Unofficial transcripts are required at the time of application.
• Knowledge of regulatory economics, economic theory, and economic practices.
• In addition to meeting the basic education requirements, to qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Skill in the application of economic theory, economic research techniques, analytical methods, techniques, and findings, and quantitative and qualitative tools, including computer software.