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Public Trust
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Bethesda, MD (On-Site/Office)
Location: Bethesda, MD (Hybrid)
Clearance: Public Trust (Role may require additional background investigations)
Employment Type: Full-Time
US Citizenship is Required
Position Overview:
Praescient Analytics is seeking a highly qualified Senior Economist to support the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in modernizing its data infrastructure and analytical capabilities. This position will will play a critical role in the strategic evolution of how the CPSC utilizes data to protect the public from product-related risks.
The Senior Economist will lead complex regulatory and economic analyses to support CPSC rule making activities. This role involves creating sophisticated benefit/cost models, conducting market analyses, and providing expert testimony in legal proceedings. You will leverage a modernized cloud-native environment (Microsoft Azure) to perform advanced statistical analysis and machine learning, ensuring data-driven regulatory responses to emerging consumer product hazards.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications & Experience:
What you can expect from us:
Benefits:
Praescient Analytics is a Certified Woman-O wned Small Business (WOSB) with over a decade of expertise in advanced analytics, engineering, and DevOps, specializing in transforming complex data into actionable intelligence for informed decision-making. Since 2011, we have supported over 40 organizations across diverse domains, including military intelligence operations, financial and fraud investigations, and insider threat detection.
Our team of experts-skilled in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, DevOps, and engineering-brings deep experience in solving complex challenges. With a proven track record in federal contracting, we deliver tailored, high-impact solutions designed to enhance operational efficiency, ensure mission success, and address the evolving needs of our clients. Praescient's innovative and adaptive approach makes us a trusted partner in delivering data-driven insights and technological excellence for critical missions.
Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
US Citizenship Required
Interested Candidates: Please forward your resume to recruiting@praescientanalytics.com and please visit our website to apply online at www.praescientanalytics.applicantstack.com/x/openings.
Clearance: Public Trust (Role may require additional background investigations)
Employment Type: Full-Time
US Citizenship is Required
Position Overview:
Praescient Analytics is seeking a highly qualified Senior Economist to support the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in modernizing its data infrastructure and analytical capabilities. This position will will play a critical role in the strategic evolution of how the CPSC utilizes data to protect the public from product-related risks.
The Senior Economist will lead complex regulatory and economic analyses to support CPSC rule making activities. This role involves creating sophisticated benefit/cost models, conducting market analyses, and providing expert testimony in legal proceedings. You will leverage a modernized cloud-native environment (Microsoft Azure) to perform advanced statistical analysis and machine learning, ensuring data-driven regulatory responses to emerging consumer product hazards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Regulatory Analysis: Perform comprehensive regulatory analysis of CPSC proposed rules, including the preparation of detailed reports for the Commission.
- Economic Modeling: Develop robust benefit/cost and statistical/regression models that adhere to industry best practices.
- Data Acquisition & Analysis: Gather and evaluate vast amounts of consumer product data and industry information for both public and private firms.
- Advanced Analytics: Utilize machine learning and statistical tools within the Azure cloud environment to fully leverage the value of existing agency data.
- Expert Testimony: Provide expert testimony in court cases involving CPSC regulatory actions.
- Strategic Research: Conduct primary and secondary research to improve CPSC benefit/cost estimation methods.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Perform technical interviews with subject matter experts, private industry executives, and government officials.
- Project Leadership: Manage large, complex analytical projects concerning federal regulations characterized by high levels of uncertainty.
Required Qualifications & Experience:
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience conducting cost-benefit analysis, economic analysis, and state/federal regulatory evaluations.
- 5+ years of experience utilizing best-practice cost-estimating frameworks and tools.
- Specialized Expertise:
- 3+ years of experience reviewing medical expenditure and medical survey data.
- 3+ years of experience evaluating the effectiveness of health and safety interventions.
- 3+ years of experience estimating both tangible and non-tangible effects of non-fatal injuries.
- Technical Skills:
- 3+ years of hands-on experience creating economic models using Python and Azure cloud services.
- 3+ years of advanced proficiency in MS Excel (e.g., arrays, financial, statistical, and lookup functions).
- 2+ years of experience with SQL for data manipulation and querying.
- Proficiency in dashboard visualization tools such as Power BI.
- Communication: Strong oral and written communication skills specifically tailored for data storytelling and executive-ready presentations.
- Clearance: Minimum of a Public Trust (U.S. Citizenship is Required)
What you can expect from us:
- Real opportunity for career growth in an environment where your achievements will be celebrated
- Constant collaboration with numerous teams to ensure client success
- A team that respects and embraces your ideas and expertise
- Coworkers that are motivated by pursuing excellence, rather than the prospect of personal gain
- A workplace dedicated to supporting and bettering public safety and government agencies
Benefits:
- Very competitive salary based on qualifications and experience
- Comprehensive, Company paid healthcare for you (We pay your premiums and deductibles)
- 401(k) with company match
- Travel & performance incentives
- 3 weeks paid time off (plus Federal Holidays)
- $5K annual training allowance
- $500 book allowance
Praescient Analytics is a Certified Woman-O wned Small Business (WOSB) with over a decade of expertise in advanced analytics, engineering, and DevOps, specializing in transforming complex data into actionable intelligence for informed decision-making. Since 2011, we have supported over 40 organizations across diverse domains, including military intelligence operations, financial and fraud investigations, and insider threat detection.
Our team of experts-skilled in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, DevOps, and engineering-brings deep experience in solving complex challenges. With a proven track record in federal contracting, we deliver tailored, high-impact solutions designed to enhance operational efficiency, ensure mission success, and address the evolving needs of our clients. Praescient's innovative and adaptive approach makes us a trusted partner in delivering data-driven insights and technological excellence for critical missions.
Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
US Citizenship Required
Interested Candidates: Please forward your resume to recruiting@praescientanalytics.com and please visit our website to apply online at www.praescientanalytics.applicantstack.com/x/openings.
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