Supervisory Interdisciplinary (Social Science Analyst Statistician Psychologist)

As a Social Science Analyst (0101) Statistician (1530) or Psychologist (0180) at the GS-14 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Oversees and serves as an authoritative subject matter expert on a highly complex portfolio of research and analysis regarding military personnel policies (e.g. readiness organizational climate sexual assault retention) to support the Department of War (DoW).
• Apply and supervise staff application of advanced social science analytic techniques across studies translating highly technical reports into actionable strategically sound information to inform decision making for General Officers and SES officials.
• Formulate long-term division goals objectives and budget plans while providing oversight of the divisions multi-million dollar contracting portfolios and functioning as a Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) in coordination with the Contracting Officers Representative (COR).
• Supervises a team of senior professional staff (GS-13 base) using project management skills to engage in workload prioritization staff development tracking milestones and evaluating performance.
• Expert knowledge and experience in survey design and writing specifications documentation technical reports methodology reports and research reports for DoW leadership and military audiences.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Occasional Travel
• Work Schedule: Full-time
• Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Required
• Telework Eligibility: This position is telework eligible

You may qualify at the GS -14 if you fulfill the following qualifications:

A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below:

• Expert knowledge of designing collecting and overseeing multiple complex large-scale probability-based sample surveys.
• Expertise in military personnel topics (e.g. readiness organizational climate sexual assault retention military spouse employment) is preferred.
• Expert experience in applying and presenting (orally and in writing) social science methodologies theories and analytic techniques (such as statistics psychology and social sciences) to synthesize complex analytical findings for senior leadership. This position requires graduate-level statistical training including 9 semester hours in statistics at the graduate level.
• Expert knowledge of advanced social/statistical methods techniques and practices; and expert knowledge of analytic techniques (descriptive inferential univariate regression and other multivariate) commonly used in behavioral science research to analyze data from large-scale probability-based sample surveys to determine attitudes and opinions.
• Proficiency in budget formulation execution and contract management including tracking multi-million-dollar portfolios justifying budget requirements and serving as a Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) supporting the Contracting Officers Representative (COR). COR training is preferred.

• Degree: behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position.
• OR
• Combination of education and experience that provided the applicant with knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field.
• OR
• Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrated that the applicant has acquired knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field.

• Degree: major or equivalent in psychology for all specializations except clinical psychology and counseling psychology.

• 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.
• OR
• 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.