As an Industry Economist, you will:

• Initiate, plan and support the execution of broad or in-depth economic studies based on analysis of loads.
• Plan, coordinate, and conduct economic and market research to track developments affecting utilities and future events affecting customer loads.
• Participate in developing, testing, documenting, and maintaining a variety of comprehensive databases, spreadsheets, and forecasting models.
• Provide technical analyses and forecasts under various scenarios, business strategies, and initiatives to determine effects on load forecasting.
• Provide analyses from a prospective and retrospective point of view on the effects of weather and temperature on energy loads and peak demands.
• Develop load and resource data for inclusion in contract exhibits.
• Analyze and forecast loads at key points of delivery.
• Provide forecasts that quantify the independent impacts of economic drivers, conservation, demand-side management, direct load control, separate electricity end uses, regional or national energy policies, new electricity markets, energy marketing practices, energy prices on future regional electricity loads to set policy on actions by BPA to affect each.

To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees.

BASIC REQUIREMENT:

A. Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus. OR
B. Have a combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Examples of qualifying experience include:
1. Individual economic research assignments requiring planning, information assembly, analysis and evaluation, conclusions and report preparation;
2. Supervisory or project coordination assignments involving a staff of professional economists, and requiring the evaluation and interpretation of economic information; or
3. Teaching assignments in a college or university that included both class instruction in economics subjects and one of the following (1) personal research that produced evidence of results, (2) direction of graduate theses in economics, or (3) service as a consultant or advisor on technical economics problems.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

GS-11:

A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-09) in the Federal service.

Specialized experience for this position is defined as: Academic or business experience 1) conducting economic modelling, including trend analysis and analysis of crossectional data for the purposes of forecasting future economic behavior, including load forecasting or comparable field, such as econometrics or statistical analysis of variation for forecasting purposes; AND 2) using statistical software such as R, SAS, or Stata.

You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows:

• Three years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree, or Ph.D., or equivalent doctoral degree; your education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. -OR-
• Combination of education and experience as described above. Less than one year of specialized experience may be combined with graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level (i.e., credit hours beyond the first two years of full-time study may be credited).

GS-12:

A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11) in the Federal service.

Specialized experience for this position is defined as: Business/industry experience or advanced academic experience 1) independently conducting economic modelling, including trend analysis and analysis of crossectional data for the purposes of forecasting future economic behavior, including load forecasting or comparable field, such as econometrics or statistical analysis of variation for forecasting purposes; 2) using statistical software such as R, SAS, or Stata; AND 3) developing business recommendations for management based on economic/statistical analysis or producing peer-reviewed academic work as part of a dissertation or post-doctoral research.

There is no substitution of education for experience at the GS-12 grade level.