What are the responsibilities and job description for the Interdisciplinary Survey Statistician, GS-1530-13, Census-DHA-EBFJ position at U.S. Census Bureau?
This position is for an Interdisciplinary Survey Statistician position in the Social Economic & Housing Statistics Division located at the U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland, M.D. The Census Bureau is accessible from the Metro Rail Green Line.
This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Interdisciplinary Survey Statistician, GS-1530-13, FPL-13 positions within the Census Bureau in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.
Qualifications:
Minimum Education 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 will be granted for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods, e.g., research methods in psychology or economics as tests and measurements or business cycles, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing.
NOTE: Additionally, to receive credit for coursework that is not catalogued on the transcript as Statistics or contain 'statistics' in the course title, applicants must attach a copy of an official course description that clarifies the course has statistical content, or written documentation which must be on official school letterhead from a professor or a school official verifying that the content of the course has either met the 50 percent statistics course requirements or was a statistical course.
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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.
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In addition to meeting the Basic Education Requirement above, applicants must have the experience listed below.
Specialized Experience: For the GS-13 you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service.
Experience for this position includes: Work communicating, coordinating, coalition building, and applying statistical theories and analytical/evaluative techniques to plan and manage data collection and processing efforts for large scale censuses or surveys; leading projects and establishing relationships with internal and external stakeholders; and communicating technical information in person and in writing with a variety of audiences.
Education cannot be substituted at this grade level.
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.
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