Summary

This position is located in the Department of Police and Evaluation (DPE), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
Although the position is advertised equivalent to SES, MCC uses a pay banded system to compensate employees. This position is pay band 2C which is generally equal to SES in pay only.

Duties

The Chief Economist will serve as a member of the MCC senior staff and a senior member of the Department of Policy and Evaluation (DPE) management team, reporting to the DPE Vice President with a dotted line to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The Chief Economist:

• Communicates the agency's economic identity, goals, approaches and the findings of its analysis to a wide variety of audiences, including highest level government officials, that may have varying degrees of expertise.
• Serves as a permanent member of the Investment Management Committee (IMC), the senior leadership body within MCC that reviews and advise the CEO on the viability, risks, and likely economic impact of Compact and Threshold programs while remaining the agency's consistent and independent voice on the economic logic underpinning its investments.
• Serves as an advisor to the DPE Vice President and Office of the CEO, providing executive-level leadership and expert advice to MCC leadership and senior management teams on the agency's investment portfolio, results agenda, and broader strategic agenda and direction.
• Ensures the economic analytical toolkit, guidance, and processes are both consistent with the agency's evolving needs and reflect ongoing innovation in professional and academic circles.
• Provides technical advice and guidance to staff economists who encounter emerging technical challenges, or barriers to communicating the implications of their findings.
• Supervises policy advisors in DPE, who will support the Chief Economist in analyzing economic issues and providing advice to DPE VP as well as in developing and updating current policies, practices, and methods in relation to the analysis of economic development in low- and middle-income countries.
• Works closely with the Managing Director for Economic Analysis division and with DPE's Deputy Vice President for Evaluation to ensure that the division is able to access, acquire, and maintain adequate collective expertise on pertinent emerging issues.
• Collaborates with the Vice President of DPE, the Office of the CEO and other Departments to offer independent professional judgement and expert inputs on emerging issues in international development and to develop strategic communications with stakeholders outside the agency.
• Establishes and promotes cooperation with other donors and stakeholders by sharing economic analyses and supporting joint work. Represents the agency with partner country governments, donors, the private sector, NGOs, academia, and within the US Government interagency.
• Leads and recruits for the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) and hosts bi-annual meetings in pursuit of strategic agency needs and guides the preparation of background materials for the meetings.
• Leads the formulation, dissemination, revision and archiving of MCC policies and guidance for the design and implementation of economic analysis in the Agency.
• Performs administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised. Ensures continuing affirmative application of MCC policies concerning equal opportunity.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance
• Relocation expenses will not be paid
• More than 1 job may be filled if additional vacancies occur within 120 days
• Some domestic and international travel may be required

Qualifications

This position has a minimum education requirement.

Applicants must have a degree in economics that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus.

OR
Have combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

AND
To qualify for pay band 2C applicants must also meet the following:

Have at least one year of specialized experience relevant to the position duties and comparable to the MCC Pay Band 3A (GS-15) or an equivalent level which is directly related to the work of this position and which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. For this position, examples of this experience are: serving as a recognized expert in development economics and international development; experience advising on the viability, risks, and likely economic impact of development finance; experience guiding the development and dissemination of economic analysis (e.g., growth diagnostics, cost-benefit analyses, beneficiary analyses, etc.); mentoring, directing and supervising a staff; experience preparing and approving comprehensive reports that provide recommendations in complex and critical areas of economic analysis; experience presenting to a wide variety of audiences with varying degrees of technical expertise and offering independent professional judgement and expert inputs on emerging issues in international development; and familiarity with a variety of statistical analysis software packages (e.g., Stata, SAS, R). (NOTE: This experience MUST be well documented on your resume or application).


Highly Desirable: PhD or other demonstrated mastery of economic principles, concepts and practices.

Highly Desirable: Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• infrastructure investments for inclusive economic growth
• inequality and economic growth
• climate adaptation
• blending public and private investment for development finance.

Note: Please include the area of expertise/ experience in your resume or application.

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit may be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. To receive credit you must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours worked per week.

A new hire's direct and overall experience are critical factors in determining a salary offer. It is important that your resume fully reflects all of your directly-related work experience. Salary offers include three key factors:

• The selectee's directly related experience at the same level as the position.
• The selectee's overall experience in a particular area.
• The salaries of employees in similar positions and with similar levels of experience.

MCC also takes the selectee's skill set into account. Applicants should note that salary offers seldom fall near the upper end of the salary range listed in the vacancy announcement. Salary may be set from the minimum to the midpoint of the salary range of the pay band. In some instances, based on a selectee's extensive experience directly related to the position, salary may be set at or above the mid-point up to the maximum salary for that pay band. See information on MCC base pay ranges and salary structure ().

How You Will Be Evaluated

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

A review of your application and supporting documents will be made and compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for the position and to ensure that you have been placed in the appropriate quality category. The HR Office and/or Subject Matter Expert (SME) will evaluate each applicant who meets the basic qualifications on the competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities related to the position such as:

• Oral Communication
• Technical Competence
• Writing

You will be evaluated based on Category Rating procedures. Based on the information you provided in your application package, you will be placed in one of three quality categories - Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified. Those applicants who are determined to be best qualified will be referred to the hiring manager for further consideration and may be called for an interview.

If, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience your category can and will be adjusted to more reflect your abilities, and you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Applicants must include their own documented examples of the required experience in their resume. Applicants who copy the duties section of this announcement into their resume as their current experience will be disqualified.

Application of veteran's Preference: Category rating and selection procedures place those with veteran's preference above non-preference eligible within each category. Veterans who meet the eligibility and qualification requirements and who have compensable service-connected disability of at least 10 percent are listed in highest quality category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-09 grade level or higher. http://

Required Documents

The following documents must be received by the closing date of this announcement:

• Applicants are encouraged to include information included in the USAJOBS-formatted Resume Builder (
• Unofficial college transcripts - if the position has an education requirement or if you are using education to qualify "Unofficial" transcripts are acceptable. If selected for the position, prior to your appointment, an official transcript will be required.
• If you are displaced Federal employee, you may be entitled to receive special priority consideration under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) or Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP). View information about ICTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. See To be considered eligible under ICTAP or CTAP, you must be placed in the "well-qualified" category for this position, as described above.
• Veterans Preference documentation (DD-214 - member 4 copy or other copies that indicate character of discharge or equivalent, SF-15 and VA Letter as appropriate) to validate your claim. For more information regarding eligibility requirements, see:
• If you are eligible for Special Appointment eligibility (e.g., 30% compensable veteran, individuals with disabilities, former Peace Corps or other noncompetitive eligibility candidates.) requires submission of supporting documentation. For more information visit: http://www.opm.gov/employ/students/fedhire.asp#authorities,
• If you are a current or former political appointee (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or presidential appointee employee), you must submit a copy of a your SF-50, along with a statement that provides the following information regarding your most recent appointment (position title, type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee, agency, beginning and ending dates of appointment, etc.).

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

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