OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Operations Research Analyst in the Millington, Tennessee area, and reports to the Director, Navy Selection and Classification (NS&C) of PERS WASHINGTON.

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Present force management programs and give an updated status of information in a concise and effective form for government officials to obtain program support and approvals; 2) Conduct extensive analysis on rating specific data for future community health planning; 3) Use specialized statistical methods, operations research methods, or mathematical reasoning to resolve ad hoc assignments and strategic or operational problems; 4) Use operations research, principles, concepts and practices of program management, operations statistical and mathematical modelling, regression to participate in statistical data analysis.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/operations-research-series-1515/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

• You will coordinate research and development efforts aimed at long-term problems and issues.
• You will develop measures of effectiveness, sampling procedures, and data collection instruments.
• You will research selection of applicants into service, classification into ratings, promotions to higher pay grades, distribution among positions and retention/continuation of service.
• You will monitor processes and assess the impact of actions taken in one area on other parts of the overall process.
• You will utilize program management methods while conducting data analysis and mathematical modelling to develop, test, evaluate, and forecast the impact of various policy options.