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Technical Lead Actuary

Department of Defense
Defense Contract Management Agency
DCMA Cost and Pricing (PC)
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Summary

See below for important information regarding this job.

Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement.

Positions will be filled at any of the locations listed below. Site specific salary information as follows:

  • Garden City, NY: $143,559 - $186,629
  • Hanscom AFB, MA: $138,046 - $179,462
  • Hartford, CT: $137,680 - $178-986

Overview

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Hiring complete
Open & closing dates
01/04/2024 to 01/16/2024
Salary
$137,680 to - $186,629 per year

Salary information by location is listed below

Pay scale & grade
GS 14
Locations
1 vacancy in the following locations:
Hartford, CT
Hanscom AFB, MA
Garden City, NY
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Travel Required
25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Secret
Drug test
No
Announcement number
DCMA-PC-24-12245301-MP
Control number
768826500

Duties

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  • Act as a principal technical advisor of the CIPR team, provide technical leadership and policy guidance, and perform and technically manage the most complex/significant pension and insurance cases.
  • Provide actuarial subject matter expertise on post-retirement benefits, pension and other insurance coverage, cost measurement, period assignment, allocation, and adjustment procedures.
  • Coordinate with other experts within and outside of DCMA to collaborate on complex emerging issues and policy development, and to provide depositions and legal testimonies as requested.
  • Develop or guide in the development of forecast models and analytical approaches used in the preparation of analysis for post-retirement benefit, pension and other insurance coverage, policy specifications or working rules
  • Provide consultant support to assist DCMA in sustaining disallowances through the appeal stages and the litigation process.
  • Provide expert advice on formulation of innovative approaches to effective analysis on the impacts of proposed policy or legislative changes affecting defined benefit pension plans and group health insurance coverage.
  • When called upon, coordinate with DCMA cognizant federal agency officials and CAPE to ensure impacts of legislative changes are included in contractor forward pricing estimates.
  • Explains/clarifies team goals and objectives to team members, and guides team in organizing to accomplish work tasks.
  • Serve as a focal point for all technical inquiries on complex post-retirement benefit, pension and other insurance coverage issues.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Must be a U.S. citizen
  • Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access
  • Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
  • Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.

Qualifications

To qualify for a Technical Lead Actuary, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

A. Basic Requirement: Bachelor's Degree that included courses in actuarial science, mathematics, relevant statistics, business, finance, economics, insurance, or computer science totaling at least 24 semester hours. This course work must have included a minimum of 12 semester hours of mathematics that included differential and integral calculus and one or more courses in mathematics for which these calculus courses were prerequisites.
AND
B: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.
Creditable specialized experience includes:

  • Technical leadership in building team consensus, solving problems and defending positions taken on CAS/FAR actuarial issues, promoting best practices and policies, and upholding standards which maintain credibility of actuarial analyses presented in reports.
  • Competency as an enrolled Actuary or a credentialed member of either of the following: Society of Actuaries or Casualty Actuarial Society.




Education

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

If the position has a minimum education requirement you MUST provide transcripts (unofficial are acceptable at the time of application) to support your educational claims. Or, if you are using education to qualify in lieu of specialized experience you MUST provide transcripts (unofficial are acceptable at the time of application) to support your educational claims. The transcripts must include your name, the name of the college or university, class/course list, completed number of credits/hours, and the date degree conferred (if applicable). Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Licenses must be current at time of application.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Additional information

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

The assessments for this job will measure the following Competencies:

  • Employee Compensation and Benefits
  • Leadership
  • Mathematical Reasoning
  • Oral Communication
  • Written Communication


Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility and/or score.

Once the application process is complete, a manual review of your resume and supporting documentation will occur to determine if you are eligible and among the best qualified as determined by the predetermined cutoff score. Your score is based on your responses to the assessment questionnaire.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Programs: This program applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria; 2) be rated well-qualified for the position; Well qualified is defined as possessing the type and quality of experience that exceeds the positions minimum qualifications. and 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. For more information: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Priority Placement Program (PPP) DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP): To In order to receive this preference, you must choose to apply using the "Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP)" eligibility. If you are claiming MSP and are determined to be among the Best Qualified for the position, you may be referred to the hiring manager as a priority applicant.

Priority Placement Program (PPP) DoD Retained Grade Preference (RGP): In order to receive this preference, you must choose to apply using the "Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference (RGP)" eligibility. If you are claiming RGP and are determined to be Well Qualified (score of 85 or above) for the position, you will be referred to the hiring manager as a priority applicant. Information and required documentation for claiming MSP may be found at the General Applicant Information and Required Documents Section of this Announcement.

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