Chief Data Officer

Joint Activities • Miami, FL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Chief Data Officer serves at SOUTHCOM in the Chief Data Office in Miami, Florida. The position manages algorithms, statistical models, and associated data, and promotes a data science team that uses advanced analytics and information technology to support organizational missions. The incumbent improves data quality and management, documents data assets, assesses tools and technology costs, conducts analysis and develops models to advise leadership, and ensures information security and records-management compliance. The role also includes supervisory responsibilities, including advising employees on policies and procedures, making or recommending staffing decisions, setting and communicating performance standards, providing feedback, and arranging employee training.

The position is designated Tier 5, Special Sensitive, High Risk, and requires obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information access. The job may involve travel away from the duty station up to 10% of the time, including travel on military or commercial aircraft. It is a drug-testing-designated position requiring pre-appointment and periodic random drug testing. The position may be filled as a term appointment not to exceed three years, with possible extensions, or as a time-limited assignment for a current permanent Army employee. It may be made permanent without further competition.

Requirements

• A degree in mathematics, statistics, or actuarial science, with a major field of study appropriate to the position at least at the baccalaureate level; alternatively, equivalent coursework plus additional education or appropriate experience.
• At least one year of specialized experience developing analytical or mathematical models for evaluation criteria or testing sequences; managing the lifecycle of algorithms, statistical models, and associated data; assessing data-management tools and technology costs for efficiencies; and identifying employee development needs and providing training. This experience must be at the GS-14 level or equivalent.
• Specialized experience must be used to qualify; education cannot substitute for the required experience.
• Applicants who held a General Schedule position within the preceding 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-14).
• Obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information access.
• Meet a suitability or fitness determination based on a background investigation, as applicable.
• Sign the required drug-testing acknowledgment and successfully complete pre-appointment drug testing if not already in a drug-testing-designated position; periodic random testing is required.
• Provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• Foreign education used to meet requirements must be evaluated and deemed equivalent to U.S. accredited education, or receive full credit through an accredited U.S. college or university.
• Complete a one-year probationary period.
• Meet applicable eligibility requirements for one of the listed employment-authority categories.

Responsibilities

• Manage the lifecycle of algorithms, statistical models, and associated data related to protected visibility and responsibility of brokerage regarding digital assets.
• Promote the creation of a data science team using advanced analytics and state-of-the-art software and hardware to support organizational missions.
• Eliminate data redundancies and identify data-quality discrepancies.
• Implement continuous improvements to data quality and data-management functions to improve services to customers.
• Conduct knowledge-transfer meetings to uncover operational silos and determine stakeholders’ data-sharing needs.
• Document and manage existing data assets to demonstrate the value of agency and command data information.
• Routinely assess agency data-management tools and technology costs for efficiencies.
• Conduct independent analysis and develop analytical research proposals and studies to recommend alternative courses of action to leadership.
• Develop analytical or mathematical models for evaluation criteria and testing sequences.
• Ensure security measures protect the integrity of information within organizational programs.
• Verify that file plans are maintained in accordance with applicable guidance.
• Advise and counsel employees regarding management policies, procedures, and directives.
• Select or recommend candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments based on skills, qualifications, and mission requirements.
• Develop, modify, or interpret performance standards; explain expectations and provide employees regular feedback.
• Identify employee development needs and provide or arrange formal and on-the-job training.

Benefits

• Comprehensive federal employee benefits package available to the employee and family; specific benefit eligibility depends on position type.
• Permanent Change of Station allowances may be authorized, subject to applicable regulations and agency determination.
• Recruitment, relocation, or retention incentive may be authorized.
• Advance-in-hire may be authorized.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive