Risk Management Specialist

**Duties**:

- Expands and improves the crop insurance program throughout the region using various resources by staying abreast of agricultural developments and conditions.
- Assess the need and interest for agricultural risk management tools for producers of specific agricultural commodities.
- Research, assemble and release crop insurance actuarial materials (rates, coverage levels, prices, program dates, codes).
- Participate in rating crop insurance and agricultural determinations. Utilize agricultural and crop insurance related principles, concepts, methods and practices to ensure compliance with actuarial soundness statutes.
- Perform outreach activities to support the successful development and delivery of agricultural risk management tools and education.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- You must be a US Citizen or US National.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served.
- Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.

**Qualifications**:

- Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the listed closing date of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions, specialized experience and/or education, as defined below.
- One full-time year of specialized work experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the GS-5 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience evaluating and analyzing agricultural programs, agricultural policies, agricultural procedures and/ or agricultural regulations applicable to crops, agriculture, agriculture cycle and trends, crop insurance, and/or agricultural risk management practices. Experience may have been gained in organizing and controlling an agricultural business enterprise; or providing financial, operational, or managerial assistance to an agricultural business; or reviewing and analyzing agricultural, crop insurance, or statistical data related to agriculture. **OR**:

- Superior Academic Achievement from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in a field of study in agriculture, agricultural business (agribusiness), agricultural economics, animal science, farm management, agronomy, horticulture, soil science, agricultural actuarial science or statistics, or any other degree from the college of agriculture: 1) a grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 based on a 4.0 scale; 2) a 3.5 GPA based on a 4.0 scale for required courses completed in a major field of study during the last two years of undergraduate study; 3) class standing of upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision of the college; 4) membership in a National Scholastic Honor Society certified by the Association.** OR**:

- One full year of graduate level study with a major in a field of study in agriculture, agricultural business (agribusiness), agricultural economics, animal science, farm management, agronomy, horticulture, soil science, actuarial science or statistics, or any other field directly related to the field of agriculture. **OR**:

- A combination of education and experience as described above which totals at least 100% when combined.

**Specialized**Experience for GS-09**:

- Completion of at least two full academic years of progressively higher level graduate education resulting in a masters or equivalent graduate degree from an accredited college or university with a major in a field of study in agriculture, agricultural business (agribusiness), agricultural economics, animal science, farm management, agronomy, horticulture, soil science, actuarial science or statistics, or any other field directly related to the position to be filled; **OR**:

- A combination of graduate level education and specialized experience. Only graduate education in excess of the first year (18 semester hours) may be combined with experience.

**Specialized Experience for GS-11**:

- Completion of at least three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education resulting in a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree from an accredited college or university with a major in agriculture, agricultural economics, farm management, agronomy, horticulture, economics, actuarial science or statistics or any other field directly related to the position to be filled that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work; **OR**:

- Combination of graduate level education and specialized experience. Only graduate education beyond the second full year (36 semester hours) may be combined with experience.

**Specialized Experience for GS-12**:
- Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service pr