Clarification from the agency

United States Citizens. This is a Direct Hire Public Notice. Category Rating, Veterans Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply to this Public Notice.

As a Statistician, GS-1530-13/14, your typical work assignments may include the following:

• Serves as an expert advisor and consultant on statistical policy, theory, and methods.
• Works collaboratively with OIRA economists, statisticians, scientists, and policy analysts, as well as with colleagues across the Executive Branch.
• Assesses statistical analyses and models, complex survey designs, data quality, disclosure risk, and artificial intelligence applications underlying statistical products, methodology, regulatory impact analyses, risk assessments, guidance documents, and information collections submitted to OIRA for review by Federal agencies, under Executive Orders 12866 and 14192; the Information Quality Act; the Paperwork Reduction Act; and other Administration policies.
• Coordinates and reviews actions submitted to OIRA under Executive Order 14215, Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies, which concerns the review of actions submitted by all regulatory agencies.
• Assesses the implications for the Federal statistical system of proposed statutes, Executive Orders, OMB policies, and Agency policies regarding confidentiality of data, use of privacy enhancing technologies, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, access to Federal statistical data, and data sharing.
• Leads development, maintenance, and implementation of government-wide regulations, policies, and standards designed to promote data quality, utility, comparability, confidentiality, and consistency, including for measuring economic or financial characteristics and improving statistical methods and models.
• Leads interagency working groups to produce recommendations for addressing statistical measurement challenges.
• Develops and deliver briefings to OMB management and policy officials and Executive Office of the President officials regarding statistical policy and methods.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position
• Selective Service registration if a male born after December 31, 1959
• RELOCATION EXPENSES WILL NOT BE PAID
• All employees are required to participate in Direct Deposit/ Electronic Funds Transfer for salary payments.
• Suitability for Federal employment
• You must submit to a drug test and receive a negative test result prior to appointment to this position. After appointment, you may be subject to periodic random drug testing.
• You must obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• You must be able to obtain and hold a Top Security clearance.
• Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.
• Résumé and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• You must successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
• Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for EOP to share your application with others in EOP for similar positions.
• More than one selection may be made from this announcement.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: All applicants must meet the qualification requirements outlined below to be considered minimally qualified for this position. The qualification requirements are in accordance with the OPM Qualification Standards.

ALL QUALIFICATIONS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS: In order to qualify for the Statistics Series, 1530 applicants must meet the basic requirements and the minimum qualification requirements. Applicants must meet one of the criteria listed below:

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.

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Specialized Experience Requirements:
You may qualify at the GS-13 level, if you meet the following minimum qualification requirement: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the public/private sector that demonstrates: 1) Application of statistical methods and techniques used in the data collection, analysis, interpretation, or protection of quantitative data; 2) Experience with the use of Federal statistics; 3) Experience working on several projects simultaneously; 4) Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information, such as conclusions and recommendations; AND 5) Experience leading groups.

You may qualify at the GS-14 level, if you meet the following minimum qualification requirement:One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the public/private sector that demonstrates: 1) Application of complex statistical methods and techniques used in the data collection, analysis, interpretation, or protection of quantitative data; 2) Experience with the use of Federal statistics; 3) Experience in a fast-paced environment working on several projects simultaneously with limited supervisory guidance;4) Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information, such as conclusions and recommendations, to senior managers and/or policy officials; AND 5) Experience leading groups and demonstrated ability to work independently.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service program (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 experience.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement.

Your resume must include detailed information as it relates to the duties and specialized experience for this position. Evidence of copying and pasting directly from the vacancy announcement without clearly documenting supplemental information to describe your experience will result in an ineligible rating. This will prevent you from receiving further consideration.

If you are determined qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview. You may be requested to provide a writing sample to the hiring manager and/or may be required to do a scenario analysis.

Interagency/Career Transition Assistance Program (I/CTAP) Eligible: If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not I/CTAP eligible. View information about I/CTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. To be considered well qualified under I/CTAP, you must be rated at a minimum score of 85 for this position. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement.

To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Application Package which includes:

1. Your resume showing your name, work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment and duties performed. Your resume must include detailed information as it relates to the responsibilities and specialized experience for this position. Evidence of copying and pasting directly from the vacancy announcement without clearly documenting supplemental information to describe your experience will result in an ineligible rating. This will prevent you from receiving further consideration. Note: If you upload more than one resume, the last resume received will be the one utilized for consideration. Please limit your resume to 2 pages. If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, curriculum vitae, or any other written form you choose, then you must ensure it contains all of the required information, and you organize it so we can associate the following information for each experience/position:

• Job title
• Name of employer
• Beginning and ending dates of employment (month/day/year format)
• Hours worked per week. We will assume full-time unless otherwise stated. We will prorate part-time employment in crediting experience.
• Detailed description of job duties for each job held, accomplishments, related skills, and responsibilities to include any supervisory/managerial responsibilities and number of staff supervised (if applicable)

2. TRANSCRIPTS: Positions which are scientific or technical in nature often have very specific educational requirements. You must submit an official transcript, unofficial transcript, or a list including courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned. If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities, see the Foreign Education section below for additional requirements. Pay careful attention to the Qualifications and Education sections to identify vacancies where a transcript is required. Even if you hold a similar position or are a current employee, you are not exempt from transcript requirements.

3. Other supporting documents to be submitted with application:

DD214: Veterans' Preference Documentation, if applicable, a DD-214 Member 4 copy, which shows type of discharge. If still active, provide an official Statement of Service. Any other documentation such as VA letter documenting disability, SF-15, and any other required supporting documentation based your veterans' preference claim.

Electronic Transcript Caution: If you have obtained your transcripts electronically, the file might contain security measures that could prevent our application system from reading the file. Therefore, you should consider asking the institution to provide the file in a non-secured electronic format. Alternatively, you could scan or take a photo of the printed copy of the transcript. If your uploaded transcript cannot be read by our system, you may not receive consideration and credit for the information we can access.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

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