Student Trainee (Psychology)

Duties

The selectee will serve as a Student Trainee (Psychology) in the Office of Human Resources, Research and Assessment Division, and will receive practical on-the-job experience and formal training in the field of Psychology. Duties are developmental to enhance the knowledge of human resource functions that support work operations in at least one of the following concentrations under the Personnel Research Psychologist discipline; job analysis, competency modeling, career progression, assessment development, assessment validation, survey research and design, training needs analysis and development, and organization development. Typical work assignments include:

• Handles projects and addresses problems in human resource management and development and may be individual or segments of larger, longitudinal studies.
• Assists with survey planning and design to defined populations; conducts studies to determine the predictive effectiveness of existing test for specific occupations.
• Assists senior members in tasks of limited scope and complexity related to the development and validation of special-purpose test and related instruments for application to specific and general examining needs.
• Assists with data collection to support human capital research efforts.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet the education requirements, and/or specialized experience and Selector Placement Factor listed below.

Specialized experience must include experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.

You qualify for the GS-5 level. Completion of four years of post high school leading to a bachelor's degree or equivalent degree.

You qualify for the GS-7 level. Completion of 1 full academic year of graduate level education; or Eligibility under the Superior Academic Achievement Provision and completion of a bachelor's degree.

Or

One year of specialized experience at the GS-05 level performing duties such as:

• Assisting with survey planning and design to defined populations.
• Conducting studies on various occupations, collection of data that support human capital research efforts.
• Use of Test theory, psychometric methodologies and statistics.

Selective Placement Factor: major or equivalent in Psychology. Knowledge of principles, methods and techniques particularly in one or more of the following areas; cognition, sensation, and perception, biopsychology, human engineering, behavioral health risk.

Qualifications Must Be Met: The qualification requirements listed above must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Education

Pathways Program candidates must meet the minimum education requirements determined by OPM.

GS-5: Completion of four (4) academic years of post-high school leading to a bachelor's degree or equivalent degree.

GS-7: Completion of one (1) full academic year of graduate level education; or Eligibility under the Superior Academic Achievement Provision and completion of a bachelor's degree.