Total 71 Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in Arlington, Virginia

The Director of Institutional Research and Assessment is responsible for developing, leading, and managing a comprehensive institutional research and assessment program at the college level. As the program lead for institutional research, assessment and accreditation, he or she provides direction for data governance strategies and policies, assessment policies and practices, accreditation compliance and institutional reporting. More specifically, the Director will:

Institutional Research

1. Contribute to the management of the program for data analytics;
2. Develop and improve institutional analytical capabilities, including providing technical guidance on analytic methods and tools;
3. Support institutional assessment of NUD's effectiveness in attaining strategic objectives;
4. Ensure accurate and timely reporting to fulfill regulatory requirements;
5. Summarize, present and report highly complex data and results appropriate to audience and purpose;
6. Maintain currency in best practices in institutional research; and
7. Routinely provide technical and research expertise to others.

1. Support institutional assessment of NDU's effectiveness in attaining learning outcomes;
2. Develop and execute assessment policies and coordinate assessment activities within a program and across the university, including data collection, analysis, and reporting;
3. Develop and implement assessment plans in collaboration with faculty and leadership to measure and ensure achievement of Program Learning Outcomes;
4. Summarize, present and report highly complex assessment data results appropriate to audience and purpose;
5. Contribute to curriculum development by assisting faculty and leadership in developing/identifying learning outcomes, selecting and developing assessment techniques, designing and developing rubrics, collecting and analyzing data, and using results to make curricular improvements;
6. Maintain currency in best practices in assessment (direct and indirect); and support faculty/curriculum developers as the lead expert for developing rubrics to effectively measure achievement of Program Learning Outcomes;
7. Routinely provide technical and assessment/evaluation guidance and expertise to others.

1. Serve as the program accreditation expert, routinely providing expertise in accreditation standards, practices and procedures to others;
2. Ensure compliance with accreditation standards;
3. Ensure accurate and timely reporting for accreditation requirements; and

1. Engage as a member of the professional community by taking leadership roles within professional organizations, participating on accreditation teams, and/or reviewing scholarly work for presentation or publication; and
2. Serve as a role model and mentor to institutional research staff and the wider professional community.

As a Biological Science Technician (Fisheries) within the Eastern Ecological Science Center, some of your specific duties will include:

• Assist in ecological investigations on a river/stream, in a boat, wet lab, unheated flume/hatchery facility or other field environment.
• Rear fish in ponds, tanks, and raceways and preform associated laboratory maintenance and animal care protocols.
• Install, configure, and operate radio and passive integrated transponder (PIT) telemetry system; perform system operation checks; and retrieve data.
• Work with others as part of a team to accomplish goals.
• Assist scientists and engineers in collecting, assessing, and evaluating experimental data.

• Direct the performance of a broad range of strategic and operational analyses to evaluate alternative force structure requirements and capabilities.
• Prepare analysis reports and model documentation pertaining to assigned studies describing objectives, assumptions, methodology, sources and uses of data, and results obtained.
• Lead the development of complex models and computer simulations of military force generation and readiness based.
• Assess performance and effectiveness of new or substantially modified force concepts.
• Analyze feasibility of advanced approaches or radically different proposed policies.

This is an opportunity under the Internship Program under Pathways. The Internship Program provides students enrolled in high schools, colleges, trade schools & other qualifying educational institutions with paid opportunities to work in agencies & explore Federal careers while completing their education. Veteran's Preference is applied.

The Budget Division (DOB), situated within the NSF Office of Budget, Finance, and Award Management (BFA), has Foundation-wide responsibility for long-range budget planning; program analysis; budget preparation, presentation, and execution activities; and analytic studies related to budget and program activities. As a STUDENT TRAINEE (MANAGEMENT ANALYST), you will perform the following duties:

• The incumbent is responsible for developing and preparing plans and programs for carrying out responsibilities on an organization-wide basis, determining methods to be used, approaches to be taken, resolving conflicts that arise, consulting with the supervisor where policy has not been established and coordinating work with program officials and external groups.
• Participating in conducting research and analyzing information on a variety of NSF's administrative policies and procedures as they pertain to BFA's business activities and develops summaries.
• Participating with BFA staff in conducting periodic studies and reviews to evaluate internal policies and operating procedures for efficiency and consistency with BFA and NSF's administrative policies and procedures; and assisting in making recommendation to ensure compliance with BFA and NSF guidance.
• Assisting in implementing, and reviewing revised policies and operational procedures to evaluate effectiveness in supporting substantive BFA administrative objectives and support functions.
• Providing support in creating and updating organization SharePoint collaboration pages.
• Participating in the development of the SharePoint collaboration, as well as the content management.
• Participating in aiding the division with the electronic official records storage structure.
• Assisting in the design and development in web applications for internal and external websites in support of the mission of the organization, BFA and the agency.
• Assisting in the management of BFA's communications tools per established NSF policy and in collaboration with OLPA and other external offices, as necessary. Creating new content and repurposes content in a format appropriate to each tool.
• Editing documents to ensure accuracy and clarity and correct formatting, grammar, and spelling for select, important BFA written products. Assisting in identifying critical opportunities to publicize BFA activities.
• The analyst keeps the supervisor informed of progress, potential controversies, or wide-ranging implications. Completed work is reviewed in terms of satisfying expected results of projects or assignments, responsiveness, and conformance with agency policy.

As a Business Operations Coordinator, GS-0301-14 MP, you will perform the following duties:

Strategic Planning and Policy

• Reviews agency directives, action memoranda, and other relevant documentation to remain current on proposed and pending actions which may affect assigned responsibilities and impact the organization's operations policies, principles, and procedures.
• Makes recommendations to the CBO and senior leadership that outline operational changes necessary to adhere to systems, principles, and procedures; ensure proper financial action and assignment of directorate/office responsibilities; address impact of regulations or new procedures and actions required to implement them; and project cost estimates for implementing operational strategies.

• Works with the business operations managers (BOMs) and Chief Business Operations (CBO) to coordinate performance management activities for the directorate/office.
• Reviews and monitors the status of performance plans and appraisals for the directorate/office to ensure timeliness of actions and compliance with the NSF general workforce, Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA), and Senior Executive Service (SES) schedules and associated activities. This includes providing assistance and guidance to directorate or office staff on policies, procedures, and guidelines involved in the appraisal process.

• Serves as a subject matter expert on the federal travel process and associated NSF policies and procedures.
• Serves as the organizational expert on human capital and financial tools and systems, ensuring staff receive appropriate access, as needed, and supporting training needs.
• Performs ad hoc and formal analyses of directorate/office administrative systems and business practices (e.g., travel, use of AOAM funds, IPA investments).
• Applies knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods to identify inefficient or ineffective practices and establishes new practices for organization-wide use.
• Establishes working groups to study issues and initiatives, propose solutions, plan implementation, and assess feedback, as needed.

• Implements, analyzes, and monitors the progress of the organization's financial operating plan.
• Informs the CBO, Chief Budget Strategist (or equivalent), and senior managers of potential problems with the organization's commitment of funds.
• Participates in meetings to justify and/or defend the organization's operations and/or financial execution processes or strategies.
• Assists in preparing papers, talking points, and graphical presentations to support meetings with senior organizational leadership.

• Presents compelling rationale to individuals and groups at all levels of the organization.
• Follows up with individuals to understand causes of resistance to changes in administrative, operational, programmatic, and human capital processes and procedures within the directorate/office.
• Coordinates with the CBO, AD/OH, and Deputy Assistant Director (DAD)/Deputy Office Head (DOH) to support organization wide employee engagement activities.

Selected candidates may be required to perform limited supervisory duties of a few staff members.

Performs other duties as assigned.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Plans, organizes, and conducts direct control operations to reduce wildlife damage within a geographical area or technical/subject area.
• Inspects and surveys areas and, as necessary, will revise existing WDM programs.
• Determines strategies and logistics for providing services.
• Uses WDM tools/devices which may include some or all of the following depending on need in assigned area: firearms; foothold, body-grip, cage traps; foot snares; neck snares; chemical control methods.
• Utilizes knowledge of WDM methods and strategies to independently recommend appropriate WDM strategies.
• Modifies or adapts established damage control techniques as necessary to meet local conditions.
• Assists in the negotiation of cooperative service agreements with landowners, lessees, or administrators.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Plans, organizes, and conducts direct control operations to reduce wildlife damage within a geographical area or technical/subject area.
• Inspects and surveys areas and, as necessary, will revise existing WDM programs.
• Determines strategies and logistics for providing services.
• Uses WDM tools/devices which may include some or all of the following depending on need in assigned area: firearms; foothold, body-grip, cage traps; foot snares; neck snares; chemical control methods.
• Utilizes knowledge of WDM methods and strategies to independently recommend appropriate WDM strategies.
• Modifies or adapts established damage control techniques as necessary to meet local conditions.
• Assists in the negotiation of cooperative service agreements with landowners, lessees, or administrators.

• Serves as a technical and operations research advisor to management officials and DLA’s Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) teams, branch chiefs and other analysts.
• Serves as a Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) on quantitative, machine learning and operations research contract study efforts administered by ACE, as required.
• Identifies specific concepts and develop procedures for investigating problems of a significant nature, which may be broadly stated or ill-defined.
• Prepares study plans which define study efforts by providing the background, description, approach, project milestones, resource requirements and costs for each study.
• Performs quantitative, statistical analysis and operations research studies requiring the application of such techniques as mathematical modeling, linear and nonlinear programming, simulation, decision theory and machine learning theory.
• Conducts, organizes, directs and coordinates analytical studies in a primary business (e.g., procurement, finance, distribution, et al) area that often incorporate factors from other functional areas.

As a CONTRACT SPECIALIST GS-1102-13/14, some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Serve as the principal acquisition advisor to technical clients, providing expertise on use of Other Transactions in non-procurement and prototyping situations.
• Active involvement in the acquisition planning process, adapting to each technical offices varying internal processes, management and communication styles and personalities while reviewing and assessing requirements and developing the most appropriate, streamlined, and efficient acquisition strategy.
• Serve as a contracting officer, a grants officer, or an agreements officer with specified negotiation authority for assigned technical programs across technical offices and acquisitions.
• Assess and resolve complex pre-award issues including evaluating contractor technical and financial capability and perform cost analysis, negotiating subcontracting issues including utilization of small disadvantaged businesses as sub-contractors, and reinterpreting policies to apply to new or changing circumstances.
• Independently monitor contract performance, changes, deliverables, schedules, & financial status.
• Serves as the principal acquisition representative for a primary technical office, but also assists DARPA's technical offices in matters related to acquisitions and assistance.
• Inform senior management of significant actions, anticipated acquisition strategies and potential issues requiring management and/or General Counsel involvement.
• Manage workload and perform contract management using a host of electronic tools.
• Maintain continuous learning through training courses, professional activities, attendance at conferences, and speaking to maintain DoD education requirements.

As a Research Epidemiologist, you will:

• Serves as principal investigator, epidemiologic research project team leader, and/or scientific researcher for epidemiologic scientific studies of various emerging public health issues and problems as it relates to occupational safety and health.
• Plans and carries out research projects and selects epidemiologic methods to be used in quality control analysis.
• Conducts feasibility studies to evaluate potential research projects, including the identification of occupational groups suitable for conduct of the research and surveillance.
• Initiates and maintains contacts with epidemiologists, health scientists, engineers, physicians, statisticians and other research personnel in government agencies, academic institutions, and industry, who are involved in common areas of research.
• Prepares comprehensive reports of national surveillance system analyses that include discussion of substantive health issues and research objectives; assessment of the adequacy and quality of data used in research; and explanation of the methodologies, results, and relevance to occupational safety and health issues as they relate to the epidemiological problem under study.

As a Research Epidemiologist you will:

• Serves as principal investigator, epidemiologic research project team leader, and/or scientific researcher for epidemiologic scientific studies of various emerging public health issues and problems as it relates to occupational safety and health.
• Plans and carries out research projects and selects epidemiologic methods to be used in quality control analysis.
• Conducts feasibility studies to evaluate potential research projects, including the identification of occupational groups suitable for conduct of the research and surveillance.
• Initiates and maintains contacts with epidemiologists, health scientists, engineers, physicians, statisticians and other research personnel in government agencies, academic institutions, and industry, who are involved in common areas of research.
• Prepares comprehensive reports of national surveillance system analyses that include discussion of substantive health issues and research objectives; assessment of the adequacy and quality of data used in research; and explanation of the methodologies, results, and relevance to occupational safety and health issues as they relate to the epidemiological problem under study.

As a OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST at the GS-1515-11 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Designs, plans, research, performs, and supports modeling and simulation-based warfighting proficiency analyses spanning U.S., ally, and partner warfighting plans, options, concepts, and capabilities.
• Conducts directed warfighting analytics in accordance with Defense Priorities.
• Assesses warfighting proficiency (at mission and campaign levels) to evaluate, enhance, and advise on warfighting courses of action, joint warfighting capability mixes, and to develop detailed mission and campaign-level warfighting recommendations for Combatant Command planning, exercise, and experimentation staffs.
• Designs, develops, research, operates, and maintains mission and campaign-level databases and data analysis tools that underpin studies within the division and across the DoD analytic community.
• Supports principals and senior technical advisers on operational campaign effectiveness and warfighting proficiency.

As a Security Specialist at the GS-0080-15 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Determines and recommends to the Director, the nature and scope of the DARPA security and intelligence missions.
• Participates in revising program plans in light of changing DoD and DARPA policies, missions, and major operational doctrines, and formulates changes in policy and programs to ensure overall responsiveness of the national security and intelligence efforts to DARPA requirements.
• Exercises technical staff surveillance and control over the DARPA security, intelligence, and emergency management programs throughout all elements of DARPA.
• Monitors selective issues invested with the highest priority and/or sensitivity on a day-to-day basis.
• Directs actions to ensure that risks are identified, measures are designed, and actions are scheduled to facilitate the secure execution of DARPA projects while also countering vulnerabilities resulting from DARPA's dependence on information systems to accomplish its mission and to protect a wide range of sensitive and highly valuable assets.

The Division of Financial Management (DFM), situated within the NSF Office of Budget, Finance, and Award Management (BFA), is responsible for the financial management aspects of the CFO Act of 1990. The division is responsible for NSF's financial reporting, financial management, grantee business office relationships and outreach, payment of vendors and managing NSF's financial management systems, and coordination of the annual financial statement audit with BFA Offices, Program Directorates, OD, and OIG external stakeholders to maintain internal control over financial reporting and improper payment oversight.

The incumbent serves as the Deputy Division Director (DDD) for DFM and serves as a principal advisor to and participates fully with the DFM Division Director (DD) and Deputy Chief Financial Officer (DCFO) in the overall management of the division. The DFM DDD is also an advisor to the BFA Front Office, Division of Acquisition and Cooperative Support, Division of Budget, Division of Institution and Award Support, Division of Grants and Agreements, and the Research Infrastructure Office on financial oversight and operational matters related to financial assistance and contract administration.

The incumbent is responsible for developing, coordinating, recommending, advising on, and overseeing matters affective DFM financial management operations, as well as evaluation of internal controls, and implementation of policies and procedures for NSF staff and awardee institutions, contracts, and facilities. The incumbent assists in developing the overall goals and objectives of the division and in providing direction to subordinate supervisors to ensure that these goals and objectives are implemented in an effective and efficient manner.

In the role of a Science Assistant, you will:

• Conduct analyses and provide reports and related presentations of information on the Division's (or Office's) scientific programs.
• Provide scientific input to relevant aspects of the merit review process, including developing solicitations; reading proposals for responsiveness to the solicitation and preliminary grouping of proposals.
• Attend panel meetings and provide feedback on completeness of panel summaries and/or minutes of the scientific discussion.
• Provide assistance to program officers and division management in overseeing scientific progress on awards, including working with principal investigators and program officers to collect high quality, scientifically accurate highlights and results.
• Develop data and report on scientific portfolios for Committees of Visitors and other results-oriented activities.
• Provide assistance to Division (or Office) management in enhancing interactions with the scientific community, including interactions with Advisory Committees.
• Participate in outreach meetings, including activities with schools and interacts with relevant elements of the National Academies.