Not Required
Duties
This position can be located in any of the following locations: Washington, DC; San Francisco, CA; Lakewood, CO; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Kansas City, MO; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Fort Worth, TX; Tacoma, WA; Norfolk, VA; Tampa, FL; Houston, TX; San Antonio, TX; Orlando, FL. The Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Office of Strategy and Innovation (OSI), Government-wide Acquisition Services (GWAS) team conducts category management analytical studies and initiatives applicable to this government-wide program. As a Team Lead for Government-wide Acquisition Programs, you will lead a team of Operations Research Analysts as they conduct category management analytical studies and initiatives to explore trends, develop and track metrics, and identify leading indicators applicable to this government-wide program. You will perform the following duties: Serve as a team lead for complex initiatives and analytical studies, leading the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload, coordinating team efforts, and ensuring timely completion of work applicable to a government-wide acquisition programs. Provide authoritative advice and information on project status, progress, and/or problems to the leadership. Prepares written and oral reports or presentations regarding study findings, conclusions, and recommendations for leadership. Synthesizes highly technical information for non-technical audiences. Develop requirements for automated reports, creates business analyses and constructs other tools, reports and documents to create moderate and high-level complexity forecasts, models, and return-of-investment (ROI) projections. Apply a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods to conduct studies, initiates new areas of study, and recommends areas of further study. Leads development of analytical and/or mathematical models analyzing complex data. Identify needed data sets, collecting the data, cleansing, validating and manipulating data using databases and statistical software tools. Establishes data baselines, study and analytical methodologies, and other types of foundational data and reporting metrics.
Requirements
If selected, you must meet the following conditions: Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or NonCareer SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the HR Office. Failure to disclose this information could result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service. Serve a one year probationary period, if required. Undergo and pass a background investigation (Tier 2 investigation level). Have your identity and work status eligibility status verified if you are not a GSA employee. We will use the Department of Homeland Security's e-Verify system for this. Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of continued employment.
Qualifications
For each job on your resume, provide: the exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year); number of hours per week you worked (if part time). If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume. The GS-14 salary range starts at $125,776 per year. If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the step 1 of the grade for which you are selected. To qualify, you must meet the basic requirements. Basic Requirements: Degree: in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus. Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcript(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcements to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. To qualify, you must also have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or higher in the federal service. Specialized experience is: Applying (mathematics, statistics) qualitative and/or quantitative methods to explore trends, track metrics, and identify leading indicators for a management program; Creating automated reports to create forecasts, models, and return-of-investment (ROI) projections; and Synthesizing category management program information for customers.
Education
Degree: in operations research; OR at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus. Note: If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/
Other Information
EEO Statement Candidates will not be hired based on their race, sex, color, religion, or national origin. Resume Mining/Searchable Resume Applicants are encouraged to make their resume searchable in their USAJOBS.gov profile. This will allow federal hiring specialists and hiring managers across agencies to find their resume as part of agency recruitment campaigns or staffing searches. Criminal History Inquiries - Not allowed before offer If you apply to this position and are selected, we will not ask about your criminal history before you receive a conditional job offer. If you believe you were asked about your criminal history improperly, contact the agency of visit https://www.gsa.gov . Relocation Not Paid Relocation-related expenses are not approved and will be your responsibility. Management Rights Additional vacancies may be filled through this announcement in this or other GSA organizations within the same commuting area as needed; through other means; or not at all.