Statistician (Social Science)

The duties and responsibilities for a GS/12 generally include but are not limited to the following:

• Participates in or manages complex data collection projects that employ a variety of collection methods.
• Plans organizes and implements data collection projects related to cooperative and interagency agreements.
• Generates tables and graphical displays of data that are well organized and follow the organizations data quality and style guidelines.
• Analyzes a variety of data sets using appropriate statistical software such as SPSS SAS STATA or R; applies statistical software to develop program code.
• Performs statistical verification including review of program code and text-to-table verification.
• Prepares studies and technical reports for publication and dissemination.
• Reviews Federal state and local data sources including statistical and research reports to provide a framework for reference and comparison.
• Consults with other professionals concerning on-going and established statistical studies or other projects where extensive methodological or subject-matter advice and interpretation is required.
• Writes modifies and/or edits statistical reports that include the analysis and evaluation of varied technical problems and issues.

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• You will be required to complete a pre-employment security investigation and background check which includes a drug screening.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born on or after December 31 1959. Those not registered should have an approved exemption on file. Visit .
• You must meet all eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement and continue to meet these requirements throughout the hiring process. Offers can be rescinded if requirements are not met.
• Security Requirements: Non-Sensitive/Moderate Risk
• A USA Hire assessment is required. An email will be sent with additional information after you submit your application. You will have 48 hours from the closing date of this announcement to complete the assessment.
• 1-year probationary period may be required.

To qualify for the position of Statistician (Social Science) at GS/12 you must meet the qualification requirements listed below.

Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics) and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences medicine education or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography history economics social welfare geography international relations social or cultural anthropology health sociology political science public administration psychology etc. Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods e.g. courses that included studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements or business cycles or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing.

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B. Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown in A above plus appropriate experience or additional education. The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling (b) collecting computing and analyzing statistical data and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency dispersion skewness sampling error simple and multiple correlation analysis of variance and tests of significance.

GS-11: Specialized Experience:

Applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level. Specialized experience is experience which is in or related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the specific knowledge skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

Examples of specialized experience include:

• Drafting survey and data collection instruments.
• Performing a variety of routine data collection statistical analysis and data interpretation activities and drafts findings/reports. Providing information on standard aspects of criminal justice data and analyses.
• Participating in the presentation of statistical findings to a wide range of audiences.

• Performing a variety of data collection statistical analysis and data interpretation tasks and preparing findings/reports.
• Proposing and recommending improvements in survey methodology format and drafting and reviewing survey instrument development.
• Participating in monitoring oversight and analyses of statistical programs developed in and outside the organization.
• Presenting statistical findings in a professional and independent manner to a wide range of audiences; developing data sets and documentation that meet agency requirements for dissemination.
• Cleaning weighting and evaluating the quality of data.