U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Location: Washington, DC) - Announcement closes August 5, 2025

This position serves as a Senior Personnel Research Psychologist, establishing and implementing best practices in competency- based assessment, evaluation, and organizational development to support building and sustaining a mission-ready workforce within Customs and Border Protection. This position starts at a salary of $142,488.00 (GS-14, Step 1) to $185,234.00 (GS-14, Step 10).

Typical Work assignments include:

• Planning and conducting job analysis studies, the results of which serve as the foundation for a variety of human resources programs including development of tests and assessments for frontline hiring and career paths for employee development.
• Applying behavioral science theories to improve employee morale, engagement, and organizational performance and efficiency, to include developing and conducting culture and climate assessments, creating engagement tools and resources, and working with offices across CBP to identify and conduct organizational interventions.
• Applying the knowledge base and scientific methods of psychology to critical human capital issues to include talent acquisition, succession planning, retention, employee motivation, and occupational skills gaps.
• Designing and implementing surveys to support data driven decision-making around human capital issues or to enable program evaluation.
• Participating in all phases of the research process, including problem definition, planning, execution, statistical analysis and interpretation, and reporting of results. Preparing and presenting briefing materials that communicate technical information to non-technical audiences of all levels; documenting applied research study methods and results in technical reports.

For more information and to apply: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/841970300