- Position Title
- Statistician
- Agency
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Announcement Number
- DE-10814075-20-TD Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, May 8, 2020 to Thursday, May 28, 2020
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
2.
Are you a current employee of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) who meets the definition of surplus or displaced from a position in the competitive service? If yes, confirm you meet all of the following requirements:
- you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy;
- your grade is equivalent to or below the grade level of the vacancy;
- your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
3.
Are you a current or former federal employee who meets the definition of displaced (CFR 330.702) from a position in the competitive service from a federal agency other than the agency hiring for this position? If yes, confirm you meet all of the following requirements:
- you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy;
- your grade is equivalent to or below the grade level of the vacancy;
- your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent;
- it has been less than a year from your separation from Federal Service (see ICTAP eligibility period CFR 330.708.)
Assessment 1
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
Basic Requirements:
Do you meet the basic requirements as listed below? (You must provide a copy of your unofficial transcripts).
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. OR
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.
Do you meet the basic requirements as listed below? (You must provide a copy of your unofficial transcripts).
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. OR
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.
2.
Carefully read the following descriptions of experience and knowledge. Select the one that best describes your qualifications for the GS-12 Statistician. Make sure your resume supports the response that you select.
3.
Perform long-range planning and analysis of new substantive agency programs where precedents are scarce or nonexistent.
4.
Develop operations and procedures for the collection, editing, verification, and management of statistical data.
5.
Perform statistical analyses of administrative and survey data. Designing and executing these analyses based on the application of statistical theories.
6.
Maintain control of full study design including assisting EEOC staff in developing the generally stated project objectives into clearly defined specific study questions, study populations and/or samples and appropriately defined outcome measures.
7.
Apply advanced higher level mathematical, statistical or data science principles and methods to complex technical problems.
8.
Provide analysis plans, protocols and regulatory documents as needed, and summarizes results (i.e. tables, figures and listings) for inclusion in presentations or reports.
9.
Perform analytical studies and develops new processes to improve methods.
10.
Identify what data is available and relevant, including internal and external data sources, leveraging new data collection processes.
11.
Provide on-going tracking and monitoring of performance of deployed decision systems and statistical models.
12.
Assist customers by answering questions through the cross referencing of different manuals and information systems.
13.
Present scientific information to a variety of stakeholders through participation at scientific and policy conferences and meetings.
14.
Manage and track customer service inquiries.
15.
Analyze and evaluate, on a quantitative and qualitative basis the effectiveness of the Customer Service Program or operations in meeting established strategic and performance goals.