NASA

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

300 E STREET, SW

WASHINGTON, DC 20546

**VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT**

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**POSITION:** Operations Research Analyst **ANNOUNCEMENT NO:
HQ-IG-98-18**

GS-1515-14

**LOCATION:** Office of Inspector General

NASA Headquarters **Opening Date:** 04/06/98

Washington, DC **Closing Date:** 05/08/98

**AREA OF CONSIDERATION:** Current Career or Career-Conditional
Employees in the Federal Service,

including Reinstatement Eligibles

**Promotion Potential:** GS-14

Permanent Change of Station Costs (PCS) will be paid.

**DUTIES:** Serves as the principle provider of analytic and statistical
support to the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG). Applies
mathematical modeling techniques and statistical sampling to various
ongoing and concurrent studies, surveys, audits, and evaluations
conducted with the Office of the Assistant Inspector General for
Auditing (OAIGA) and other component IG offices. Applies
state-of-the-art operations research methods to a wide variety of
short-and intermediate-range problems involving costs, benefits, and
effectiveness of proposed programs, missions, and/or projects. Evaluates
cost estimating and accounting techniques used by NASA and its
contractors involving complex business operations, such as just-in-time
inventory systems and cost pool allocation methodologies. Participates
in various audits, evaluations and major studies, with chief emphasis on
identifying and assessing data bases, designing samples and survey
instruments, providing on-the-job training for auditors and evaluators,
processing data, and performing the quantitative analyses to produce
written products for reports.

**[QUALIFICATIONS:]{.underline}** Candidates must meet the
qualifications as stated in OPM Qualification Requirements Standards
Handbook. Copies of these standards are located in local personnel
offices.

**[SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:]{.underline}** Experience which is in or
directly related to the duties of the position and which has equipped
the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to
successfully perform the duties of the position. Candidates must have
one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade.

**[CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:]{.underline} INCUMBENT MUST BE WILLING TO
TRAVEL AND RELOCATE AS NECESSARY**. **[EXECUTION OF A MOBILITY AGREEMENT
IS REQUIRED.]{.underline}** Candidates appointed to professional
positions in the Office of Inspector General are expected to be willing
to travel, be mobile, and may be reassigned to different duty locations
throughout the U.S. dependent upon Office of Inspector General program
needs.

**[POSITION SENSITIVITY:]{.underline}** This position has been
designated Non-critical Sensitive.

**HQ-IG-98-18**

**[BASIS OF RATING]{.underline}:** Applicants will be rated on
knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics and supervisory
appraisals, and potential as evidenced by supervisory assessment of
potential, awards, and self development efforts.

**[KSAOC'S]{.underline} (KNOWLEDGES, SKILLS, ABILITIES, AND OTHER
CHARACTERISTICS):**

2.  Knowledge of advanced operations research and statistical and
    quantitative methods analysis techniques.

3.  Ability to perform cost-effectiveness analyses and cost estimates of
    life-cycle costs for major programs and activities.

4.  Ability to communicate analytical results orally and in high quality
    written reports.

**Applicants are encouraged to submit a supplemental statement
addressing these factors**.

**[APPLICANT APPRAISAL]{.underline}**

**Name of Candidate:**
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**Position:** Operations Research Analyst , GS-1515-14 **Announcement
No. HQ-IG-98-18**

Please have this appraisal completed by your supervisor and submit it
with your OF-612, application, or resume.

To Supervisor: The factors listed below are knowledge, skills,
abilities, and other characteristics which are important for
satisfactory performance in the position. Use the ratings below to
describe the candidate's observed performance. Cite specific examples of
work behaviors or work products which demonstrate the candidate's
proficiency.

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**RATINGS**

**O = Outstanding S = Successful (Fully meets performance standards)**

**H = Highly Satisfactory M = Minimally Satisfactory U =
Unsatisfactory**

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| **Evaluation Factors**           | **   | **Examples**               |
|                                  | Rati |                            |
|                                  | ng** |                            |
+----------------------------------+------+----------------------------+
| 1.  Knowledge of advanced        |      |                            |
|     operations research and      |      |                            |
|     statistical and quantitative |      |                            |
|     methods analysis techniques. |      |                            |
|                                  |      |                            |
| 2.  Ability to perform           |      |                            |
|     cost-effectiveness analyses  |      |                            |
|     and cost estimates of        |      |                            |
|     life-cycle costs for major   |      |                            |
|     programs and activities.     |      |                            |
|                                  |      |                            |
| 3.  Ability to communicate       |      |                            |
|     analytical results orally    |      |                            |
|     and in high quality          |      |                            |
|     reports..                    |      |                            |
+----------------------------------+------+----------------------------+
| **Period of Time During Which    | **Da | **Supervisor's Signature** |
| you Supervised the Candidate**   | te** |                            |
+----------------------------------+------+----------------------------+
| **From: To:**                    |      |                            |
+----------------------------------+------+----------------------------+

**HOW TO APPLY:**

Applicants may submit "Optional Application for Federal Employment
(OF-612), a resume or other type of application. However, all
applications must contain the following information:

\(1\) The announcement number, title and grade of the job for which you
are applying

\(2\) Social Security Number

\(3\) Country of citizenship

\(4\) Veterans' preference (to claim 5-point veterans' preference,
attach a copy of your DD-214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from
Active Duty, or other proof of eligibility. To claim 10-point veterans'
preference, attach an SF-15, Application of 10-point Veterans'
Preference, plus the proof required by that form. If proof of 10-point
preference is not received, the application will be processed with
credit given for 5-point preference if appropriate.)

\(5\) Reinstatement eligibility (Attach a copy of your most recent
SF-50)

\(6\) Highest Federal civilian grade held (including job series and
dates held)

\(7\) High school/date of diploma or GED

\(8\) Colleges and universities (majors and type and of degree received)

\(9\) Work experience, training, skills, certificates/licenses and
awards related to the position for which you are applying. Include
series and grade if work experience was with the Federal government.
Also, for each position listed, provide your duties and accomplishments,
employer's name and address, supervisor's name and phone number,
starting and ending dates, hours worked per week and salary. Please
indicate if we may contact your current supervisor. Applicants are
requested to submit the following additional documentation. While it is
not mandatory, your qualifications may not be clearly represented unless
you provide this supplementary information:

\(A\) A copy of your most recent performance appraisal

\(B\) The attached supervisory assessment of how you meet the Quality
Ranking Factors (may be completed by your current or former supervisor)

\(C\) Your personal description of how you meet the Quality Ranking
Factors

Separate applications and supporting documentation must be submitted for
each position for which you are applying. These documents will not be
returned.

**Address Applications to: For further information contact:**

NASA Office of Inspector General Lek Terrell

Code W (RM8V69) 202/358-2584

300 E Street SW.

Washington, DC 20546

**INFORMATION TO APPLICANTS:**

Selecting Officials have the right to select from all appropriate
sources including: reinstatement eligible; noncompetitive lateral
reassignments; nonstatus candidates within reach on an OPM certificate
of eligible; veterans readjustment appointment eligible; qualified,
noncompetitive status applicants with handicapping conditions who are
eligible for appointment under Schedule A, Section 213.3102(t) or (u);
and noncompetitive applicants who are 30 percent or more disabled
veterans who have been certified as such by the Veterans Administration
or state vocational rehabilitation office.

Eligibles will be rated based on documentation supporting their
possession of the qualification rating factors listed above, as well as
the most recent performance appraisal and applicable training and
awards.

Applicants who do not meet the time-in-grade, qualifications, or
time-after-competitive-appointment requirements, may be considered if
they meet the particular requirement within 30 days of the closing date
of the Vacancy Announcement.

Applicants are assured of equal consideration regardless of race, sex,
age, religion, national origin, political affiliation, physical
handicap, marital status, or membership or non-membership in an employee
organization.

OPM considers the filing of job applications to be a personal matter,
not official government business. Such personal mail is therefore
subject to the payment of postage by the applicant, and use of official
postage paid envelopes for this purpose is a violation of OPM and postal
regulations and 5 U.S.C. 735.205;39 U.S.C. and 18 U.S.C. Applications
submitted in official government postage paid envelopes will not receive
consideration. Envelopes with postage due cannot be accepted and will be
returned to sender.

All statements on employment forms are subject to investigation
including a check of fingerprints, police records, and former employers.

If you are a male born after December 31, 1959, and you want to be
employed by the Federal Government, you must, subject to certain
exemptions, be registered in the Selective Service System.

**[CAREER TRANSITION ASSISTANCE PLAN (CTAP) AND INTERAGENCY CAREER
TRANSISTION ASSISTANCE PLAN (ICTAP):]{.underline}** Priority
consideration will be given to surplus and displaced Federal employees
as set forth in the Office of Personnel Management guidelines, 5 CFR
part 330, Career Transition Assistance for Surplus and Displaced Federal
Employees. To receive this special selection priority, applicants must
be within the local commuting area of the vacancy, have a current (or
last) performance rating of at least fully successful or equivalent and
submit the following with their application:

**[CTAP:]{.underline}**

1.  RIF separation notice, or notice of proposed removal for declining a
    directed reassignment or transfer of function outside the local
    commuting area; or

2.  Certificate of expected separation or other official notice from the
    agency indicating that the applicant is surplus or eligible for
    discontinued service retirement; or

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3.  Other official agency certification identifying the applicant as
    being in a surplus organization or occupation.

**[ICTAP:]{.underline}**

1.  RIF separation notice, or notice of proposed removal for declining a
    directed reassignment or transfer of function to another commuting
    area; or

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2.  Documentation, e.g., SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action,
    showing that the applicant was separated as a result of a RIF, or
    for declining a transfer of function or directed reassignment to
    another commuting area; or

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3.  Official certification from an agency stating that it cannot place
    the applicant whose injury compensation has been or is being
    terminated; or

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4.  Official notification from OPM that the applicant's disability
    annuity has been or is being terminated; or

\(5\) Official notification from a Military Department or National Guard
Bureau that the applicant has retired

under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) or 8456.

**In addition applicants must be determined to be well-qualified: (1)
have a score of at least 85 or equivalent when ranked against the
applicable knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's); (2) meet all KSA's
at least one level above fully satisfactory or equivalent: or (3) meet
an equivalent standard as defined in writing and consistently applied
that supports the level of well-qualified.**

**[ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS
ANNOUNCEMENT.]{.underline}**