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Position Title
Statistician (Operations and Admin)
Agency
Veterans Affairs, Inspector General
Announcement Number
22-VAOIG-20-DH Opens in new window
Open Period
Monday, November 22, 2021 to Monday, December 6, 2021
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1. Do you claim Veterans' Preference? (limit characters)
2. Are you a surplus or displaced Federal employee eligible under the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)?  Click CTAP for eligibility and a detailed list of required documents you must submit in order to be eligible.
 
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3. Are you a displaced Federal employee eligible under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)?  Click ICTAP for eligibility and a detailed list of required documents you must submit in order to be eligible.
 
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Preferences
1. Are you currently serving or have served in the last five years in a Political Appointment in the Federal Government? (limit characters)
2. As outlined in the vacancy announcement, you must submit a copy of your most recent completed annual performance appraisal which includes the final rating. If you have not submitted an appraisal meeting these requirements, you must explain why you are unable to do so. If you do not provide a copy of the performance appraisal, or a statement advising why it is unavailable, you will be removed from further consideration. Type "yes" in the text box below if you are providing a performance appraisal meeting the above requirements with your application. If you are unable to provide a performance appraisal with your application, please provide a reason in the text box below. (limit characters)
3. Would you like the opportunity to be considered for similar positions that require the same knowledge, skills and abilities? (limit characters)
Assessment 1
You must meet the minimum basic education and/or work experience requirements for professional Statistician series in the Federal government. (Attach a copy of transcript(s) or a list of college courses designating semester or quarter hours earned to ensure proper credit).

Basic Requirements:

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.
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1. After carefully reading the above requirements, select one response from the options below: (limit characters)
2. Please list all of your college degrees below. Include level of degree (BA, MA, and PHD, etc.), discipline (major), and the university from which the degree was received. (limit characters)
Specialized experience for the GS-12 is defined as one year of experience at the GS-11 level, or equivalent that is directly related to the position and which has equipped the candidate with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as:

- Communicating technical requirements for operation and research projects to upper management; AND
- Assisting in data analyses using statistical methods; AND
- Summarizing analytical findings in a clear, logical and concise manner
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3. For the GS-12: Please choose the answer that best describes your experience: (limit characters)
4. Make sure experience is clearly documented in your resume. Please give the dates/resume reference when you gained this experience so it may be found to ensure you receive proper credit. (limit characters)
5. Choose the response(s) that describe(s) your experience interacting with peers, customers and high-level managers across organizational units. (limit characters)
6. Please select all that you have experience in preparing comprehensive reports based on the results of analyses or studies: (limit characters)
7. Please list the type of reports, documents, and/or briefings you have written as the primary author: (limit characters)
8. Please describe where in your resume this experience is documented; please list the organization(s) where you obtained this experience and the corresponding dates. (limit characters)
9. Please select all statements that describe your experience of statistical reviews and analysis process. (limit characters)
10. Choose all statements that describe your experience of analyzing factual information and evaluating significant factors. (limit characters)
11. I have evaluated study proposals in terms of: (limit characters)
12. I examined data quality to: (limit characters)
13. Which of the following characterizes your experience with programming languages used for statistical and/or advanced analytics? (limit characters)
14. What tools have you used for data analysis? (limit characters)
15. Choose the statement(s) that best describes your experience. (limit characters)
16. From the following list, select those items or techniques that describe work activities you routinely perform. (limit characters)
17. Do you have working experience integrating non-VA and VA national databases (e.g., VA Corporate Data Warehouses for Health and Benefit, Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)) in statistical analyses to provide comprehensive reviews of Veteran populations? (limit characters)