Clarification from the agency

Current FCC Employees Only

• Directs efforts toward assuring broadest possible understanding and acceptance of Commission policies; and defends Commission actions.
• Serves as the technical authority for economic policy decisions on projects and reports.
• Evaluates projects for conformance with policy and planning requirements, existing laws, directives, and regulations.
• Monitors developments in economic policy affecting OEA and the Commission.
• Identifies and evaluates emerging economic issues requiring regulations or policy developments, evaluates alternatives, and recommends approaches to be taken.
• Assesses the current state of the Commission's economic regulatory programs, identifies areas of adverse economic impact on the public or the regulated industry.
• Oversees review conferences and conducts briefings and presents technical aspects of the reports, explains and substantiates review issues; and/or presents views on unresolved issues, responds to questions, identifies available options for decisions, and recommends courses of action.

Conditions of employment

• FCC Employees Only.
• Suitable for employment as determined by a background investigation.
• Current FCC employees must provide SF-50 verifying grade & status.
• Resume must not exceed two pages and must meet resume format criteria.
• Transcripts required upon selection.
• Financial Disclosure may be required.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• A one-year supervisory probationary period may be required.

In order to be considered for this position, applicants must:

-Currently be employed in the Federal Communications Commission in positions serving under career or career conditional appointments.

ALL FCC EMPLOYEES MUST provide a legible Personnel Action, SF-50, that verifies your status and highest permanently held grade.  If an SF-50 is not submitted, the application will be rated as ineligible. To request a copy of your SF-50 please send an email to PersonnelRecordsRequest@fcc.gov

Qualifications

Interested candidates should be passionate about the ideals of our American republic, committed to upholding the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution, and committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government. Hiring decisions will not be based on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin.

Applicants must meet eligibility and qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.  Current Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.  

In order to be deemed as "BEST QUALIFIED" candidates must meet both the educational requirements and the specialized experience requirements outlined below.

A. Education

You must meet the minimum basic educational requirements:

1. Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus.

   OR

2. Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

AND

B. Specialized Experience:  In order to be deemed as qualified applicants must have a minimum of one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-14 in the Federal service.

For this position, specialized experience includes the following: 

1. Experience leading economic research projects by setting the scope, directing staff, and delivering recommendations to senior leadership; AND

2. Experience improving data-analysis processes by identifying gaps and implementing efficiency fixes; AND

3. Experience serving as advisor to leadership by providing data driven options and recommendations.

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: 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.

How you will be evaluated

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

Optional Four Essay Questions

At the time of application, applicants have the option of answering the following four short, free-response essay questions.

1. How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.
2. In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes.
3. How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.
4. How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples, and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position.

Applicants will be required to certify that they are using their own words, and did not use a consultant or AI (such as a large language model [LLM]). The responses to each question cannot exceed 200 words per question.

All applicants will be rated on the extent and quality of experience and education relevant to the duties of the position.  An automated score is administered based on the on-line application process used.  Eligible applicants will receive a numerical rating based on their responses to the job specific questions for this position.

There are several parts to the application process that affect the overall evaluation of your application including:

1. the core questions
2. the vacancy questions
3. supplemental documentation (e.g., DD-214, SF-50, SF-15, transcripts), if applicable; and
4. your resume.

Applicants will be rated ineligible, if they do not respond to job specific questions provide supplemental documents and submit resume.  For more information, please click on Rating Process

Subject matter experts will review your application to determine if you meet the following required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's):

• Ability to provide expert advice and recommendations to senior leadership on complex economic policy issues; reviewing proposed rules/regulations and recommending defensible approaches and alternatives.
• Ability to analyze problems with broad scope and implications, conduct analyses of current and long-range project planning objectives, and make decisions and/or work with staff to resolve work problems and issues to improve program effectiveness.
• Ability to plan, organize, and conduct economic studies and research by investigating and analyzing facts, defining issues, developing conclusions to support policy development.
• Ability to deliver clear, written and oral briefings and presentations on complex reports and policy issues; explain technical findings, respond effectively to questions and present options for decision-making.

If you are deemed to be qualified by the Subject Matter Experts, your application will be referred to the hiring manager for hiring consideration. Alternatively, if your application is not deemed as qualified by the Subject Matter Experts, your application will not be referred to the hiring manager for hiring consideration.