This position is located in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employee Benefits Security Administration. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. The Required Documents section of this announcement identifies all documents that must be uploaded in order to be considered a complete application package. Applicants that do not submit a complete application will not receive further consideration.
Serves as the Department's principal actuarial advisor, providing expert counsel to the Assistant Secretary, Deputy Assistant Secretaries, other Departmental officials, and Congressional committees on the actuarial implications of legislative, regulatory, and policy proposals affecting the nation's pension, retirement, health, and welfare benefit systems.
Directs EBSA's actuarial research, analysis, and technical consultation functions, ensuring the technical soundness and defensibility of all actuarial products, resolving the most complex and precedent-setting actuarial issues, and reviewing the actuarial soundness of exemption applications and regulatory impact analyses.
Communicates complex actuarial and policy issues to technical and non-technical audiences at the highest levels of government and industry, preparing or directing the preparation of authoritative reports, testimony, and regulatory analyses for the Assistant Secretary, the Secretary, OMB, and Congress.
Represents the Department as the senior actuarial expert with federal agencies, professional actuarial organizations, industry and labor representatives, and academic experts, leading interagency and government-industry initiatives on national actuarial policy. Leads development of professional actuarial standards, including accreditation, discipline, continuing education, and examination requirements for actuaries serving ERISA-covered plans.
Directs a professional staff of actuaries and support personnel, managing resource allocation, staffing, budget planning, and organizational structure to achieve program objectives.
In order to qualify for this position you must meet the basic education requirements listed below. Basic Requirements: A. Bachelor's degree that included courses in actuarial science, mathematics, relevant statistics, business, finance, economics, insurance, or computer science totaling at least 24 semester hours.
This course work must have included a minimum of 12 semester hours mathematics that included differential and integral calculus and one or more courses in mathematics for which these calculus courses were prerequisites. OR B.
Combination of education and experience that includes both of the following requirements: Technical work experience in actuarial support work or in mathematics; AND Completion of a minimum of 24 semester hours of courses in actuarial science, mathematics, relevant statistics, business, finance, economics, insurance, or computer science at a four year college or university.
This course work must have included a minimum of 12 semester hours of mathematics that included differential and integral calculus and one or more courses in mathematics for which these calculus courses were prerequisites. You must provide a copy of your transcripts from an accredited institution.
Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service. If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position.
Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.
taylor-wilson.andrea@dol.gov · 202-693-7704
This position is with Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor.
The posted pay range is $151661 – $209600/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-17.
This position is open under the 'Fed Competitive' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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