Total 5 Information Analyst job vacancies in Education / Training category in Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur

What will I do in this position if hired? 

In this position, you will be serving as the Operations Research Analyst in the Office of the Chief Security Officer, Fraud Investigations and Inspections Division, Program Review, and Inspections Branch. Typical assignments include: 

• Leading Section in determining data needed to support observations.
• Coordinating with the Team to ascertain needed data.
• Inspecting and analyzing control measures incorporated in Program Computer and Data Resources, and operational processes for vulnerabilities regarding fraud, waste, and abuse.

What else do I need to know? 

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management.  Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee).  CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Appointments to CORE positions are typically between two years and four years in duration and may be renewed based upon workload needs and funding availability.  Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation.  At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA’s ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.    

You will serve as a project manager and team leader for research projects involving the disciplines of naval engineering and operations research applied to naval engineering planning and resource management. Applies mathematical and statistical modeling methodologies, analytical practices/techniques, and related theories in analyzing current and future procedures, tactics, and concepts. 

Being a Coast Guard (CG) civilian makes you a valuable member of the CG team. Typical work assignments include:

• Developing mathematical models of naval engineering systems by utilizing advanced operations research, cost/benefit analysis, economic theory, and risk assessment techniques.
• Developing studies that include elements or components from related disciplines, such as systems engineering, mathematics, statistics, operations research, and computer science.
• Preparing technical study documents, reports, and recommendations that reflect significant findings and solutions to important and unusual problems.
• Reviewing a variety of historical data sources/sets and compares them to current spending information and trends for major national CG programs. Resolves complex problems of prediction and forecasting which result from uncertainties or changes in the operating programs.
• Serving as a top-level agency consultant and presenting report briefs to CG officials regarding broad research; advising on and assisting with format design, data monitoring, and related aspects of statistical methods and study design; recommending the approval/disapproval of proposed methodologies. 
• Working on very difficult and complex projects or studies containing new unfamiliar facets that require considerable ingenuity in determining the approach and identifying the relevant factors for data collection and analysis. 

As a Supervisory Operations Research Analyst, you will:

• Serves as a first-level supervisor who exercises both technical and administrative direction of federal employees on a substantially full time basis for the preponderance of time.
• Provides technical and subject matter expertise to the CEPE Director, CEPE Deputy Director, the NNSA Administrator, senior leadership of NNSA programs, Congress, and other stakeholder agencies.
• Plans, directs, coordinates and oversees highly complex cost analyses and/or program evaluations of various programs such as weapons systems and planning, programming and budget execution and cost analyses of major projects including: (1) overseeing the provisions of national research of projects that are of a major concern to national security (2) ensuring a cohesive, integrated approach to the accomplishment of projects and programs; and (3) providing technical advice and expertise to the Director and NNSA management officials regarding the evaluation of programs and alternative approaches.
• Plans, directs, and coordinates activities and projects and provides guidance, control, and direction to the development of cost and performance management techniques and management practices in support of the PPBE process and system for NNSA.

Manages a group of analysts who develop sophisticated computer models of the National Airspace System and apply these models to analytical problems involving the selection, prioritization, and evaluation of NextGen technologies and procedures. Managerial duties include planning; communicating the organization's vision and objectives; setting priorities; assigning tasks and responsibilities; monitoring and evaluating performance; coaching and developing employee capabilities; approving leave; and taking, recommending or approving corrective/disciplinary actions as appropriate.

Applies an advanced knowledge of the technical aspects of the work directed, an advanced knowledge of budget, human resource, and other administrative policies and procedures, and an advanced understanding of the objectives of the major subdivision.

Specifies requirements for new model functionality to better represent the existing and evolving NAS and works with contractors to enhance models to incorporate this new functionality.

Collects and analyzes operational data for use as model inputs and to validate model outputs and debugs new software releases.

Contacts are primarily within the organizational unit, major subdivision and the LOB/SO with subordinates, peers, and higher-level managers to discuss the status of projects/programs and to plan for the future. Has frequent contact with customers, contractors and stakeholders to interpret policies/procedures or for other project/program purposes. Has authority to make commitments for subordinate organizational units, within guidelines.

Collaborates with other FAA organizations, using models to estimate the benefits of NextGen technologies and procedures.

Develops related research plans and statements of work for contractors and universities.

Develops professional reports and presentations documenting analytical results, and present findings to senior management, aviation stakeholders, and the technical community.

Work is typically governed by established policies, procedures, and organizational objectives that frequently leave room for discretion. Resolves all but unique problems without the intervention of higher level management. Regularly called upon to identify problem areas and to develop and recommend new policies and procedures for resolution.

Individual and organizational performance is typically reviewed periodically by higher level management, usually through status reports and organizational performance measures. Has discretion to ensure the alignment of projects/programs with the tactical (short-term) objectives of the major subdivision.

Work activities typically impact directly on project/program objectives for more than one organizational unit and for the major subdivision. Work frequently affects the major subdivision's internal and external customers.

In this position you will perform a wide range of operations research and analytical activities in support of the Office of Trade. This position starts at a salary of $112,015.00 (GS-13, Step 1) to $145,617.00 (GS-13, Step 10) with promotion potential to $145,617.00 (GS-13 Step 10).

Typical duties include:

• Applying advanced concepts of operations research, statistics, and scientific methods and techniques in identifying and solving a variety of complex challenges.
• Advising and developing strategies on measurement of the design, development, deployment, maintenance, and enhancement of large-scale, advanced projects.
• Working on tasks that are unique and very difficult to define, requiring unconventional approaches and the application and adaptation of sophisticated analytical techniques.
• Performing quantitative and qualitative analysis, data quality assurance, and developing graphics and reports based on the analysis and interpretation of formative and summative operational and management program statistics and capabilities.
• Managing operations research studies through use of mathematical and statistical models to aid decision-making; and reviews, analyzes, and recommends actions for major organization concept plans and changes.