Supervisory Social Science Analyst (Director of the Program Monitoring and Research Division)

Full Job Description

This position is located in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.

Specialized Experience: For the GS-15, you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized Experience for this position includes: - Designing and conducting statistical analysis in support of program evaluation and social science research; AND - Experience in data management, including ensuring privacy protections, and administrative data linkages; AND - Experience providing analytic support to HUD program offices and interagency coordination; AND - Leading a multidisciplinary staff to coordinate efficient operations.

The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.

To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resume.

Time-in-Grade: In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable: For the GS-15 you must have been at the GS-14 level for 52 weeks.

Time After Competitive Appointment: Candidates who are current Federal employees serving on a non-temporary competitive appointment must have served at least three months in that appointment.

Major Duties:

As a Supervisory Social Science Analyst (Director of the Program Monitoring and Research Division), you will: Supervision of and expert advice on creation, statistical analysis, and quality control of administrative data extracts and products.

a. Integrate multiple data sources into cohesive and usable analytic data marts. b.

Maintain longitudinal datasets consisting of data on millions of public and assisted tenants, extracted from multiple administrative datasets, and where possible automate extract/transform/load functions.

c. Oversee creation of statistical extracts from these longitudinal datasets for use by policy makers and researchers. d.

Oversee monitoring of privacy protection commitments of PD&R staff and external researchers. e. Advise on selection of information technology contractors and supervise monitoring of their performance.

f. Oversee and provide oversight of data use agreements and data licenses with external researchers.

Coordination with other Federal agencies (GAO, OMB, CBO, HHS, VA, Treasury) and with the Offices of the Chief Financial Officer and Inspector General on issues of budget, and of program performance, overlap, targeting, and compliance.

a. Supervise supply of raw data for these purposes, properly documented and in accordance with statute. b.

Supervise supply of estimates of multiple program participation, impacts of possible program changes (e.g., costs, number of households affected). c.

Interpret HUD studies, tabulations, and statistical findings. d. Remain abreast of best practice in monitoring and evaluation activities at other agencies. e.

Critically review and comment on relevant studies by other agencies.