Survey Statistician (Recent Graduate)

• Maintains communication with supervisors and team members performing work for the assigned programs and projects.
• Applies statistical techniques and methods in performing project related activities.
• Identifies survey requirements and develops the specifications procedures and materials to support effective data collection.
• Assists in planning and conducting methodological and evaluative studies relating to survey collection methods to refine the survey process to produce reliable and statistically valid data.

• Applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• You must be a U.S. Citizen.
• You must successfully complete a background investigation.
• A one-year trial period may be required. If non-competitively converted the time spent as a Recent Graduate will count towards the probationary period.
• This position is in the excepted service.
• This is a bargaining unit position. This position is covered by one or more of the following bargaining units: American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2782(HQ) or AFGE Local 1438(DN).
• You must sign a Pathways Agreement.
• This announcement will close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the date the first (200) applicants are receive or on October 15 2026 whichever comes first.
• 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 date you submit your application to complete the assessment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Basic Entry Requirements for All Grade Levels: You must be a Recent College Graduates from qualifying institutions within two years of degree or certification (Veterans precluded by their military service obligation will have up to six years to apply).Students with a transcript with a degree confer date on or before December 31 2026 will be considered for the Recent Graduate Program. Graduation/expected graduation date MUST be indicated on your resume.

NOTE: To show proof of meeting the Basic Entry Requirements all applicants MUST submit a copy of their college transcripts. See the Required Documents section for more information.

Minimum Education Requirement: Individual Occupational Requirement for all grades:

1. 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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2. 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.

In addition to meeting the minimum education requirement listed above applicants must have specialized experience and/or directly related education in the amounts listed below for each grade level.

GS-07:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For the GS-07 you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-05 in the Federal service. Experience for this position includes: (1) communicating effectively in-person and in writing to diverse audiences including co-workers and internal/external customers; (2) reviewing and analyzing data using statistical techniques and statistical software such as SAS R and/or Python; and (3) assisting in defining survey requirements and providing non-complex technical assistance to evaluate limitations of surveys.

OR YOU MAY QUALIFY FOR THE GS-07 BASED ON EDUCATION: 1 full year of graduate-level education or superior academic achievement.

SUPERIOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: Bachelors degree with superior academic achievement is defined as:(1) Class standing -- You must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college university or major subdivision based on completed courses (2) Grade-point average (G.P.A.) -- You must have 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 based on 4 years of education or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum OR 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum or (3) Election to membership in a national scholastic honor society -- You are a member of one of the national scholastic honor societies recognized by the Association of College Honor Societies ( EXPERIENCE: For the GS-09 you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 in the Federal service. Experience for this position includes: (1) perform routine analysis of data using statistical techniques and statistical software such as SAS R and/or Python; (2) develop aspects of survey and sampling designs that ensure uninterrupted flow between data collection and data analysis; and (3) writing procedures documentation and/or training guides for data collection practices.

OR YOU MAY QUALIFY FOR THE GS-09 BASED ON EDUCATION: 2 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a masters degree or masters or equivalent graduate degree.

NOTE: Education and experience may be combined for all grade levels for which both education and experience are acceptable.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g. professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community student social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies knowledge and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience including volunteer.

After you submit this application you will receive an e-mail informing you that a USA Hire assessment is required. You will have 48 hours from the date you submit your application to complete the assessment as this assessment is part of your application.