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Labor Categories & Experience Requirements Education Requirements

Project Manager: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) As a project lead and administrator and as the primary interface and point of contact on project issues. 2) Conducting and supervising project operations and planning and executing technical efforts. 3) Monitoring and reporting progress. 4) Managing acquisition and employment of the project resources and managing and controlling financial and administrative aspects of the project. 5) Ensuring work is performed efficiently and effectively. 6) Meeting with customers, preparing reports, and validating assumptions, methodologies, results, and final product.

Master’s Degree in Economics or Public Administration or Operations Research or Business Administration or Bachelor’s Degree in Economics or Public Administration or Operations Research or Business Administration and minimum 20 years of experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Task Team Leader: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Preparing meeting agendas. 2) Facilitating team meetings using appropriate brainstorming, problem solving, decision making, and project planning techniques. 3) Delegating team tasks as needed (e.g. recording, gathering information, etc.). 4) Managing team conflicts so that problems are resolved constructively.

Master’s Degree in Economics or Public Administration or Operations Research, or Business Administration and minimum 5 years’ experience in the areas listed for this labor category or Bachelor’s Degree in Economics or Public Administration or Operations Research or Business Administration and minimum 15 years of experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Subject Matter Expert: Within the last 5 years has experience in any of the following areas: 1) Specialized micro-economics analysis and/or econometrics 2) Forecasting 3) Airline planning 4) Airport planning 5) Network analysis 6) Financial analysis 7) Operational analysis 8) Public policy analysis 9) Environmental analysis 10) Economic theory.

Master’s Degree and 10 years of experience or Bachelor’s Degree in Economics or Public Administration or Operations Research or Business Administration and minimum 15 years of experience in any of the in the aforementioned areas.

Senior Economist: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Developing and applying advanced economic models to operational, and public policy issues. 2) Applying economic theory to public policy issues involving aviation. 3) Conducting benefit cost analyses for aviation infrastructure or regulatory projects.

PhD. in Economics and minimum 10 years’ experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Staff Economist: Within the last 2 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Econometric modeling 2) Applying economic theory 3) Conducting cost benefit analysis.

Master’s Degree in Economics and minimum 7 years’ experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Junior Economist: Within the last 5 years has experience in any of the following areas: 1) Econometric modeling. 2) Applying economic theory.

3) Conducting cost benefit analysis.

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics or Operations Research and minimum 2 years’ experience in any of the areas listed for this labor category.

Research Analyst: No experience required beyond having earned a Bachelor’s degree in economics or operations research.

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics or Operations Research. No years of experience necessary.

Operations Research Analyst: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Developing optimization problems with binding constraints. 2) Conducting risk analysis. 3) Performing model validation and testing to ensure the adequacy of the solutions. 4) Defining data requirements and gathering and validating input data.

Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Research or Economics and minimum 3 years’ experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Planning Analyst: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Coordinating research projects through the collection of quantitative and qualitative data, statistical analysis, and reporting of relevant findings to support decisions and planning. 2) Coordinating and managing surveys to support decision making.

Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts or Business or Engineering and minimum 2 years’ experience in the

Statistician: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Collecting and analyzing data to solve problems and make predictions on future outcomes. 2) Forecasting data trends.

Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, or Statistics, or Economics with concentration in Econometrics and minimum 3 years’ experience in the

Cost Estimator: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Estimating project costs associated with public sector projects. 2) Familiar with cost estimating software such as Cocomo.

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance or Economics or Business or Management or Civil engineering and minimum 3 years’ experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Cost Accountant: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Applying the principles of cost accounting in the conduct of public sector projects. 2) Conducting studies and collecting data to determine the costs of business activity, such as raw material purchases, inventory, and labor.

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and minimum 3 year experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Aviation Industry Analyst: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Developing and/or analyzing fleet forecasts. 2) Developing and/or analyzing traffic and revenue forecasts. 3) Conducting network and air carrier schedule analyses. 4) Examining air carrier financial data.

Bachelor’s Degree in Aviation Related Field or Economics or Business with aviation experience and minimum 10 years’ experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Financial Analyst: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Assisting in the analysis of financial data and extracts and defining relevant information; interpreting data for the purpose of determining past financial performance and/or to project a financial probability. 2) Performing statistical, cost, and financial analysis of data reported in the various financial systems. 3) Developing financial reports for forecasting, trending, and results analysis. 4) Interpreting financial transactions and events for users who must make economic or business decisions.

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Economics or Financial Economics and minimum 10 years’ experience in the areas listed for this labor

Investment Analyst: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Analyzing financial information to forecast business, industry, and economic conditions. 2) Gathering and analyzing company financial statements, industry, regulatory and economic information. 3) Interpreting data concerning price, yield, stability, and future trends of investments. 4) Summarizing data describing current and long term trends in investment risks and economic influences pertinent to investments.

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Economics or Financial Economics and minimum 10 years’ experience

Accountant: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Applying the principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports. 2) Compiling and analyzing financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions. 3) Analyzing financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and capital, and prepares balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports to summarize current and projected company financial position.

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and minimum 10 years’ experience

Program Analyst: Within the last 5 years’ experience in any of the following areas: 1) Developing systems for data collection. 2) Researching and compiling statistics and data for projects. 3) Assisting in writing narratives for proposals and monitoring project timelines.

Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts or Business or Engineering and minimum 2 years’ experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Editor: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Managing, editing, and formatting economic reports and presentations. 2) Quality control of the production of briefing papers, reports, and presentations.

Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts and minimum 7 years’ experience or High School Diploma and minimum 15 years of experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Support Staff: Within the last 5 years has experience in: 1) Office administration practices and procedures.

2) Principles and practices of sound business communication. 3) Correct English usage, including spelling, grammar and punctuation.

High School Diploma and minimum 3 years of experience in the areas listed for this labor category.

Computer Programmer/Tech: Within the last 5 years has experience in the following areas: 1) Manipulation of data bases. Government or large commercial databases including the Terminal Area Forecasts, Enhanced Traffic Management System, Origin and Destination Survey, and the T100 Flight Data. 2) Programming using APL, Dbase, Visual Basic, Excel, C/C+, and SQL.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Mathematics and minimum 10 years’ experience in the