About This Role
This statistician role involves developing survey and study specifications, designing questionnaires, and assisting with data collection. The selectee will also analyze and evaluate data, and disseminate study results through publications and presentations. The position may involve supervising staff for survey work less than 25% of the time, applicable to regional office positions only.
Responsibilities
- Develop survey and study specifications and procedures
- Develop and design survey questionnaires
- Assist in data collection operations
- Analyze and evaluate data
- Disseminate study results through written publications and oral presentations
Requirements
- Bachelor's or higher degree; OR meet coursework requirements and have additional experience or education (totaling at least four years)
- 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, with at least 6 semester hours in statistics, where course content is at least 50% statistical methods)
- 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, engineering, or social sciences (including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc.)
- Experience includes a full range of professional statistical work such as sampling, collecting, computing and analyzing statistical data, and applying known statistical techniques (measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance)
- Provide transcripts or other documentation to support educational claims (unofficial transcripts or a list with courses, grades, semester, year, and credit are acceptable)
For GS-07 grade level:
- Bachelor's degree and superior academic achievement (generally a GPA of 3.0 or higher out of 4.0); OR
- One year of graduate education; OR
- One year of professional work experience equivalent to GS-05 grade level, where assignments and steps were defined by supervisor or standard operating procedures, and work was closely checked for accuracy and adequacy. Assignments included: writing procedures for clerical, automated, or computer-assisted statistical survey operations; assisting in the design and development of specifications for statistical surveys or studies; applying or using standard statistical methods and analyses; or assisting in developing a report on a statistical study or survey; OR
- One year experience collecting data for large scale statistical surveys or studies; OR
- Combination of graduate education and experience that meets 100% of the qualifications requirements
