Summary

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Strategy, Policy and Plans (PLCY), Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS).

The primary purpose of this position is to independently carry out a full range of policy development, policy review; and strategy to complete each phase of special assignments critical to DHS's mission.

Non-BU: This is a non-bargaining unit position.

Duties

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As a Program Analyst (Data Analytics), GS-0343-13, your typical work assignments may include:

• Serving as a data analyst to support DHS data related solutions for privacy compliance, disclosure avoidance, and applying a variety of analytical approaches to solve mission focused policy, methodologies, and/or administrative problems in a fast -paced environment.
• Leading and integrating data lifecycle management activities and data quality measures; improving the collection of data from varying sources, formats, and quality and preparing them for analysis and dissemination.
• Serving as a data governance lead to support technical data lifecycle processes, including applying programming, statistical, business intelligence, or data management tools to advance enterprise data governance objectives; including evaluating large datasets for quality, consistency, completeness, lineage, and usability; supporting data standards and metadata practices; and communicating governance insights through dashboards, reports, or other decision-support products.
• Presenting the findings of subject matter experts and analytical products to policymakers and non-technical audience.

This announcement will be open for 5 business days OR until the first 100 applications have been received, whichever happens first.

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Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• You must submit to a pre-employment drug test.
• Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements.
• You may be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
• Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience:

You qualify for the GS-13 grade level if you possess one year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal government, performing the following duties:

• Serving as a data analyst to support solutions for privacy compliance, disclosure avoidance, and applying a variety of analytical approaches to solve DHS mission focused policy, methodologies, and/or administrative problems in a fast -paced environment.
• Exercising project management and IT systems development with Agile methodology; leading and integrating data lifecycle management activities and data quality measures; improving the collection of data from varying sources, formats, and quality and preparing them for analysis and dissemination.
• Supporting technical data lifecycle processes, including data collection, ingestion, transformation, validation, quality checks, metadata, lineage, storage, access, and dissemination, with experience applying that understanding to support data governance, data quality, standards, and stewardship activities.
• Applying programming, statistical, business intelligence, or data management tools to advance enterprise data governance objectives, including evaluating large datasets for quality, consistency, completeness, lineage, and usability; supporting data standards and metadata practices; communicating governance insights through dashboards, reports, or other decision-support products; and presenting the findings of subject matter experts and data analysis to policymakers and non-technical audiences.

This position has a Selective Placement Factor (SPF). If your resume doesn't demonstrate possession of the SPF, you will be rated ineligible. The SPF for this position is: Demonstrating experience in data governance and data integration within statistical frameworks or platforms supporting immigration operations or policy, trade, emergency management, counter terrorism, law enforcement, or counter drug operations.

Substitution of education in lieu of specialized experience may not be used for this grade level.

All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Time-in-grade: Current General Schedule (GS) federal employees, and those that have served in GS positions within the last 52 weeks, must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade, or a combination of the next lower grade level and an equivalent band in the federal service by the closing of this announcement.

Note: Current or former Federal employees MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment ("position occupied" block 34 on the SF-50 should show a "1"), tenure group (block 24 should show a 1 or 2), grade, and salary. If you are applying for a higher grade, please provide the SF-50 Form which shows the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, With-in Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s dated a year apart within the same grade/job). If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment. IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT ALL OF THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE CONSIDERATION AS A STATUS CANDIDATE.

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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

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, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Education

Not Applicable

Benefits

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