Job Summary

You will serve as a OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST in the DATA ANALYTICS DIRECTORATE of NAVSAFECOM.

Job Description

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-12) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional Operations Research Analyst performing the following duties: 1. Advanced Modeling - Experience independently developing, validating, and applying machine learning models for prediction, anomaly detection, or risk analysis, including evaluating model performance, assumptions, and limitations. 2. Programming & Pipelines - Professional experience performing hands-on data engineering and exploratory data analysis using languages such as Python and SQL including building ETL/data pipelines to ingest, integrate, clean, validate, and transform data for analysis and machine learning. 3. Experience leading or substantially contributing to data science project lifecycles, including defining analytical objectives, identifying data requirements, coordinating data integration, addressing data quality, and documenting analytical methods, model validation results, and recommendations. 4. Experience designing interactive dashboards (e.g., Qlik, Tableau, PowerBI) and presenting highly technical model outputs, limitations, and predictive insights to Flag-level leadership. 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 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.