- Position Title
- Statistician (Medicine)
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBSS-11226948-21-TMB Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Thursday, September 9, 2021 to Thursday, September 30, 2021
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Eligibilities
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Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
Preferences
1.
Would you accept a temporary appointment?
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Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
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Recommended: Even though we do not require a specific resume format, your resume must be clear so that we are able to fully evaluate your qualifications. To ensure you receive appropriate consideration, please list the duties you performed under each individual job title. If we are unable to match your experiences with the positions held, you may lose consideration for this vacancy. We cannot make assumptions regarding your qualifications.
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
Recommended: Even though we do not require a specific resume format, your resume must be clear so that we are able to fully evaluate your qualifications. To ensure you receive appropriate consideration, please list the duties you performed under each individual job title. If we are unable to match your experiences with the positions held, you may lose consideration for this vacancy. We cannot make assumptions regarding your qualifications.
Assessment 1
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - Select the appropriate answer to the following question based on your current level of experience that demonstrates your ability to perform the duties of this position. When answering the questionnaire, remember that your experience is subject to verification by investigation. You may be asked to provide specific examples or documentation of experience or education as proof to support your answers, or you may be required to verify a response by a practical demonstration of your claimed ability to perform a task.
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Citizenship: I am a citizen of the United Sates.
Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. (If you have not held a GS grade at any time in the past 52 weeks, this question does not apply to you.) For this vacancy, applicants must have held grade GS-9 or higher for at least a year to be eligible for the GS-11. The grade must have been held in the Federal service but may have been in any related occupation.
2.
Time in Grade: Select the appropriate answer based on your current level of education and/or experience that demonstrates your ability to perform Survey Statistician work at the GS-11 level or equivalent in the Federal Service.
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Basic Requirements:
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 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.
In addition to meeting the basic entry qualification requirements, applicants must have specialized experience and/or directly related education. Please select the answer below that describes your specialized experience or education listed below.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
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Specialized Experience:
For the GS-11, you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Experience includes using statistical theories and techniques that relate to experimental design, data analysis, sampling, forecasting, quality control, and operations research; researching and studying the design and administration processes from the formulation of concepts through specification and analysis of output to the presentation of conclusions; assisting with projects and developing preliminary recommendations requiring technical and administrative judgment; performing statistical analysis and providing outcome on results; and/or experience in the use of statistical software packages and computer database tools.
OR
Education
Master's or equivalent graduate degree.
Do you possess the specialized experience and/or education as indicated above?
For the GS-11, you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Experience includes using statistical theories and techniques that relate to experimental design, data analysis, sampling, forecasting, quality control, and operations research; researching and studying the design and administration processes from the formulation of concepts through specification and analysis of output to the presentation of conclusions; assisting with projects and developing preliminary recommendations requiring technical and administrative judgment; performing statistical analysis and providing outcome on results; and/or experience in the use of statistical software packages and computer database tools.
OR
Education
Master's or equivalent graduate degree.
Do you possess the specialized experience and/or education as indicated above?
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES - This part of the assessment includes questions which evaluate your experience for this vacancy. For each task below, choose the statement from the list below that best describes your experience and/or training.
The following questions pertain to Data Management.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Develop and oversee national, regional and local databases related to patient management systems, instructs the organization in the use of information management tools, and serves as a knowledge expert for the computerized medical record. The incumbent provides users and other staff with consultative support and education.
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Develop analytical strategies, extracts data from VA's corporate data systems and develops surveys or other tools to collect required data, summarizes the data and infers results to a larger population as appropriate.
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Assist users in utilizing data, analyses, and reports that are produced. Ensure comprehensive documentation regarding all data and analyses produced. Monitor end user satisfaction to drive enhancements and increase performance. Respond to user feedback mechanisms.
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Maintain knowledge of the VHA data repositories such as: OQP, VSSC, Allocation Resource Center (ARC), Decision Support Service (DSS), Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), VA Corporate Data Warehouse, Inpatient Evaluation Center (IPEC), and Chief Business Office (CBO).
The following questions pertain to Modeling and Simulation.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Provide statistical and analytical expertise to leadership in support of the organization's programs.
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Develop, test, and implement new advanced quantitatively based technologies. The position requires a professional knowledge of statistical science, data mining techniques, and operations research analysis.
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Demonstrate knowledge and skill in the application of methods of scientific inquiry and quantitative techniques, specifically statistical design and analysis, stochastic decision processes, network analysis and other operations research analytical techniques, statistical estimation and inference, statistical and mathematical modeling and simulation, benchmarking, and adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to resolve complex problems. This will also be in support of academic outputs.
The following questions pertain to Information Management.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Serve as a liaison between facilities and national program offices to provide communications about current or upcoming initiatives, projects and/or problems.
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Represent interests before the Office of Information and Technology (OI&T), Information Security, VSSC, BISL and the Office of Informatics.
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Maintain necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to cooperate with academic affiliates in learning and training the most advanced data mining and techniques to VHA and affiliates. Helps create, implement and maintain analytics training programs for data science, healthcare informatics, medical quality and safety trainees and analysts.
The following pertains to Integrity and Honesty.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Establish and document professional and evidence-based standards and ensures that data and statistical inferential presentations adhere to those standards.
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Ensures that comprehensive documentation is provided where necessary, and monitors end user satisfaction to drive enhancements and increase performance.
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Participate in efforts to ensure the data science and informatics department maintain patient confidentiality, privacy and adhere to cyber security practices.
The following pertains to Project Management.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Identifies local, regional and national quality issues and supports, directs and/or leads investigation into potential solutions.
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Ability to interpret data to identify patterns and outliers as tools for management and clinical decision support, as well as assessing its application and how it relates and impacts the Medical Center and other academic affiliations
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Develop and participate in and chairs multidisciplinary local, VISN and/or National Committees; as a member of the informatics community, promotes collaborative working relationships and informatics education and awareness.
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Communicate and work with medical staff, OI&T, KMAS, VSSC , BISL and ELT to ensure all systems supporting data mining for projects are performing at the necessary level.
The following pertains to Creative Thinking.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Research and provide business plans for new measurement strategies for application and emerging targets for measurement for the organization.
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Develop and present recommendations for improving clinical data-management methods, follow-up procedures and timely compliance with regulatory guidelines.
The following pertains to Information Technology Research and Development.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Knowledge of technological advancements in the information and Internet technology fields. These skills will be used in the development, testing, validation, and execution of the highly sophisticated analyses for which incumbent is responsible.
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Develops and/or arranges educational program opportunities for the organization's analytics and data science staff and defines standards for consistency of orientation, competency and ongoing training requirements.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
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VERIFICATION - I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all of the information included in this questionnaire is true, correct, and provided in good faith. I understand that if I make an intentional false statement, or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any document or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 U.S.C. 1001); my eligibilities may be cancelled, I may be denied an appointment, or I may be removed and debarred from Federal service (5 C.F.R. part 731). I understand that any information I give may be investigated. I understand that responding "No" to this item will result in my not being considered for this position.