Statistician

This position is located in the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), Office of Innovation and Collaboration (I&C), Office of National Laboratories (ONL).

The primary purpose of this position is managing statistical projects to provide data-driven insights and analyses that are essential in ONL's understanding and evaluating of the effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity of various programs, processes, and systems.

Non-BU: This is a non-bargaining unit position.

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

• Statistically analyzing and improving complex programs by quantifying and measuring key performance indicators.
• Planning statistical projects to address a complex and wide range of technologies and systems within Office of National Laboratories (ONL) and across the laboratories.
• Uses multiple data sources, develops new hypotheses, or original analytical techniques to estimate and interpret complex relationships involving the impact on ONL.
• Coordinating cutting-edge research, works with senior leadership to identify key research questions and future trends, and works with partners throughout the department and in the broader research community.

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Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications; applicant's resumes and supporting documentation should only reflect education received from schools accredited by such institutions. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following Website: https://ope.ed.gov/dapip/#/home.

If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency (a U.S. private organization's interpretation that such education has been deemed at least equivalent to conventional U.S. education programs) with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For more information regarding evaluation of foreign education for federal employment, please visit the U.S. Department of Education webpage on the Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.

Basic Requirements:

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.

Specialized Experience:
You qualify for the GS-13 grade level if you possess one year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal government, performing duties such as:

• 1) Coordinating and supporting activities between programs and projects that evaluate homeland security technologies and systems. 2) Conducting analysis, coordination, and performance tracking which guide technology development and acquisition decisions. 3) Employing various quantitative techniques as tools of analyses to address complex technology selection, development, assessment, and transition issues.

You qualify for the GS-14 grade level if you possess one year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal government, performing duties such as:

• 1) Planning, managing, and executing statistical projects to address a complex and wide range of technologies and systems within the department and across the laboratories. 2) Using multiple data sources, develops new hypotheses, or original analytical techniques to estimate and interpret complex relationships involving the impact on the department. 3) Coordinating cutting-edge research, works with senior leadership to identify key research questions and future trends, and works with partners throughout the department and in the broader research community.

Substitution of education in lieu of specialized experience may not be used for this grade level.

All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Time-in-grade: Current General Schedule (GS) federal employees, and those that have served in GS positions within the last 52 weeks, must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade, or a combination of the next lower grade level and an equivalent band in the federal service by the closing of this announcement.

Note: Current or former Federal employees MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment ("position occupied" block 34 on the SF-50 should show a "1"), tenure group (block 24 should show a 1 or 2), grade, and salary. If you are applying for a higher grade, please provide the SF-50 Form which shows the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, With-in Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s dated a year apart within the same grade/job). If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT ALL OF THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE CONSIDERATION AS A STATUS CANDIDATE.

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 experience.

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.