- Position Title
- Statistician (Health) - Epidemiologist
- Agency
- Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CASA-10512163-19-MAB Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Monday, June 3, 2019 to Friday, June 21, 2019
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Eligibilities
1.
Are you an employee of the department/service line indicated for this position?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you may be required submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Please review the instructions in the announcement. Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you may be required submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Please review the instructions in the announcement. Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
2.
Are you a current or former federal employee displaced from the agency hiring for this position? If yes, confirm:
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
- you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
- you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
- your grade is equivalent to or below the grade level of the vacancy; AND,
- your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
3.
Are you a Veterans Health Administration employee?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
Assessment 1
Your resume and responses to this Assessment Questionnaire will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position. Your responses are subject to verification and must be supported by your resume and other supporting documents.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
Are you a citizen of the United States?
2.
Do you meet one of the following basic requirements:
Degree: Successful completion of a Bachelor's (or higher) 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.
OR
Combination of education and experience: courses as shown 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.
Degree: Successful completion of a Bachelor's (or higher) 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.
OR
Combination of education and experience: courses as shown 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.
3.
Do you possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to:
possess paramount profession knowledge in disease and disabling illness including epidemiological research and public health programs; experience with understanding of the policies, missions, and operations of VHA, data management and surveillance as it relates to public health, the Department of Veterans Affairs and other Federal agencies with whom VA partners in its suicide prevention efforts; experience working with applicable laws, regulations, policies and directives, and how new or revised laws, regulations, policies, and directives impact VA suicide prevention programming and/or Veteran health information management and surveillance; experience in public speaking and the ability to present relevant information to a wide range of audiences, including but not limited to Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments and organizations, and the general public; experience in directing the work of others to fulfill the mission of the VHA in ending Veteran suicide; experience working collaboratively with other disciplines, VA and VHA Senior leadership, senior managers from other Federal, State and local agencies; experience working with agencies outside of VHA that provide or may be able to provide significant resources for Veterans; and experience developing and managing data and surveillance strategies for mental health programs.
possess paramount profession knowledge in disease and disabling illness including epidemiological research and public health programs; experience with understanding of the policies, missions, and operations of VHA, data management and surveillance as it relates to public health, the Department of Veterans Affairs and other Federal agencies with whom VA partners in its suicide prevention efforts; experience working with applicable laws, regulations, policies and directives, and how new or revised laws, regulations, policies, and directives impact VA suicide prevention programming and/or Veteran health information management and surveillance; experience in public speaking and the ability to present relevant information to a wide range of audiences, including but not limited to Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments and organizations, and the general public; experience in directing the work of others to fulfill the mission of the VHA in ending Veteran suicide; experience working collaboratively with other disciplines, VA and VHA Senior leadership, senior managers from other Federal, State and local agencies; experience working with agencies outside of VHA that provide or may be able to provide significant resources for Veterans; and experience developing and managing data and surveillance strategies for mental health programs.