Agency Marketing Statement:

• The Congressional Budget Office is a small nonpartisan agency that provides economic and budgetary analysis to the Congress. If you're looking for a job where you can analyze budgetary and economic effects of public policies, provide nonpartisan, objective analysis, support the Congress, and work with some of the brightest minds in policy analysis, CBO just might be the right place for you.
  The Congressional Budget Office is a small nonpartisan agency that provides economic and budgetary analysis to the Congress. If you're looking for a job where you can analyze budgetary and economic effects of public policies, provide nonpartisan, objective analysis, support the Congress, and work with some of the brightest minds in policy analysis, CBO just might be the right place for you.
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Duties:

• The Long-Term Analysis Unit is seeking a research programmer to work with a team of analysts to develop, maintain, and use a variety of mathematical models, including a large microsimulation model, to analyze topics of interest to the Congress. Analysts in the Long-Term Analysis Unit are responsible for the agencys population projections; the agencys projections of federal spending in the long term; and a microsimulation model that underlies long-term projections of the Social Security programs spending and revenues and the analysis of proposed policy changes to the program. In addition, the unit leads the work on the agencys recurring reports examining the budget outlook over the long term. The successful candidate will develop and maintain software for mathematical modeling and data manipulation, gather software requirements, develop software designs and document them, write clear code that is easy to read and understand, develop and automate software tests, and improve the software development process.
  The Long-Term Analysis Unit is seeking a research programmer to work with a team of analysts to develop, maintain, and use a variety of mathematical models, including a large microsimulation model, to analyze topics of interest to the Congress. Analysts in the Long-Term Analysis Unit are responsible for the agencys population projections; the agencys projections of federal spending in the long term; and a microsimulation model that underlies long-term projections of the Social Security programs spending and revenues and the analysis of proposed policy changes to the program. In addition, the unit leads the work on the agencys recurring reports examining the budget outlook over the long term. The successful candidate will develop and maintain software for mathematical modeling and data manipulation, gather software requirements, develop software designs and document them, write clear code that is easy to read and understand, develop and automate software tests, and improve the software development process.
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