Operations Research Analyst

Full Job Description

About the Position: Position is located at US Army Cadet Command Headquarters, G1 ASD, Fort Knox, KY Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education AND experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.

Specialized experience is defined as: (1) Conducting advanced techniques to develop new methodologies to determine the best process alternatives to current and future operations in support of officer accession programs, practices, and policies; (2) Conducting a wide range of operations research with systems analysis methodologies applied to military accessions-related problems; (3) Performing quantitative/qualitative research analysis to recommend solutions; (4) Performing work which involves the use of theories, principles and practices common to mathematics, statistics, system analysis and or/ operations research techniques to solve complex problems.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).

Major Duties:

• Responsible for developing statistical analysis for the agency ROTC officer accession program.
• Use advanced mathematical and computer techniques to solve complex accessions, production, and projection problems for the organization.
• Keep abreast of current developments in operations research/systems analysis techniques, modeling and simulation techniques, graphics, and computer technology.
• Establish liaison relationships with counterparts in other organizations and other headquarters who have an interest in studies and analyses.