Statistician

This position is located within the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG); Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Audit, Audit Leadership and Support Operations (ALSO), Quantitative Methods Division (QMD).

Qualifications:

Applicants must demonstrate that they meet the Basic AND Minimum Qualification requirements as noted below.

Basic Requirement:
A. 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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B. 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 basic requirement, you must meet the specialized experience described below.

GS12: You must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience at the GS-11 level in the Federal service or at an equivalent level. This knowledge and skill may have been gained though work experience or academic training and is defined as applying knowledge of probability or sampling theory by assisting in:

• Designing simple random or complex stratified sample plans,
• Drawing statistical samples, and
• Calculating statistical results.

GS13: You must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience at the GS-12 level in the Federal service or at an equivalent level. This knowledge and skill may have been gained though work experience or academic training and is defined as applying knowledge of probability or sampling theory by:

• Identifying the sampling requirements,
• Leading the sampling discussions;
• Designing simple random or complex stratified sample plans
• Drawing statistical samples; and
• Calculating statistical results.

You must meet the minimum qualification requirements as stated in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Operating Manual, Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/statistics-series-1530/.

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 to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note: Due to the education requirement of this position, an unofficial transcript must be submitted at the time of application. If transcripts are not received, you will be rated as ineligible.

Only experience and/or education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.