USA Staffing

Position Title: Research Assistant
Agency: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Announcement Number: 23-CFPB-30-X Opens in new window
Open Period: Friday, November 4, 2022 to Monday, November 28, 2022

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1. Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?

A. No, I do not claim Veterans' Preference

B. 0-point Sole Survivorship Preference (SSP)

C. 5-point preference based on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces (TP)

D. 10-point preference for non-compensable disability or Purple Heart (XP)

E. 10-point preference based on a compensable service connected disability of at least 10% but less than 30% (CP)

F. 10 point preference based on widow/widower or parent of a deceased veteran, or spouse or parent of a disabled veteran (XP)

G. 10-point preference based on a compensable service connected disability of 30% or more (CPS)

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.

A. Yes

B. No

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.

A. Yes

B. No

1. Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position.

2. Select the series you want to be considered for. You must choose at least one series.

A. 0110 - Economist

B. 1520 - Mathematics

C. 1529 - Mathematical Statistics

D. 1530 - Statistics

E. 1550 - Computer Science

3. Would you accept a term appointment?

A. Yes

B. No

4. Are you currently serving or have served in the last five years in a Political Appointment in the Federal Government?

A. Yes

B. No

5. Are you a current CFPB employee?

A. Yes

B. No

6. How did you find out about this job?

7. If you were born a male after December 31, 1959, and are at least 18 years of age, have you registered with the Selective Service System (select "Not applicable" if this question does not apply to you)?

A. Yes

B. No

C. No, but I have an approved exemption

D. Not applicable

Individual Occupational Requirement
Basic Requirements for Economist Series (0110):

Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus.

Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).

1. Do you meet the basic requirements for the Economist Series (0110)?

A. Yes

B. No

Individual Occupational Requirement
Basic Requirements for Mathematics Series (1520):

Degree: mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics.

Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics), as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

The total course work in either A or B above must have included differential and integral calculus and, in addition, four advanced mathematics courses requiring calculus or equivalent mathematics courses as a prerequisite.

Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).

2. Do you meet the basic requirements for the Mathematics Series (1520)?

A. Yes

B. No

Individual Occupational Requirement
Basic Requirements for Mathematics Statistics Series (1529):

Degree: that included 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, of which at least 12 semester hours were in mathematics and 6 semester hours were in statistics.

Combination of education and experience -- at least 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, including at least 12 hours in mathematics and 6 hours in statistics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Courses acceptable toward meeting the mathematics course requirement of paragraphs A or B above must have included at least four of the following: differential calculus, integral calculus, advanced calculus, theory of equations, vector analysis, advanced algebra, linear algebra, mathematical logic, differential equations, or any other advanced course in mathematics for which one of these was a prerequisite. Courses in mathematical statistics or probability theory with a prerequisite of elementary calculus or more advanced courses will be accepted toward meeting the mathematics requirements, with the provision that the same course cannot be counted toward both the mathematics and the statistics requirement.

Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).

3. Do you meet the basic requirements for the Mathematics Statistics Series (1529)?

A. Yes

B. No

Individual Occupational Requirement
Basic Requirements for Statistics Series (1530):

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.

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.

Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).

4. Do you meet the basic requirements for the Statistics Series (1530)?

A. Yes

B. No

Individual Occupational Requirement
Basic Requirements for Statistics Series (1530):

Bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.

Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).

5. Do you meet the basic requirements for the Computer Science Series (1550)?

A. Yes

B. No

Specialized Experience
To qualify at the CN-40 level: You must have one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the CN-30 level in the Federal service. (For qualification purposes, the CN-30 level is broadly equivalent to the GS-07 level.) Specialized experience must include:

Hands-on research experience in the application of the principles of economics or statistical or econometric analysis; AND
Application of standard quantitative techniques used to research economic, statistical or financial data and information; AND
Programming, collecting, and analyzing data in an academic or professional setting; AND
Creating and updating charts and data tables in statistical analysis programs such as SAS, STATA, or R.

Education: A master's degree or two full academic years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such degree from an accredited college or university. Graduate education qualifying for this position must be in economics, mathematics, mathematical statistics, statistics, or computer science and must have provided knowledge, skills and abilities comparable to those that would be gained through one year of specialized experience as described above. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Combination of education and experience: A combination of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience may be used to meet total experience requirements (only graduate level education in excess of the first 18 semester hours (27 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education).

Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).

6. Do you meet the specialized experience for the CN-40 as listed above?

A. Yes

B. No

Specialized Experience
To qualify at the CN-30 level: You must have completion of all requirements for a Bachelor's Degree in one of the following fields - Economics, Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics, Statistics, or Computer Science.
OR

A combination of education and experience for one of the these fields as listed in the Basic Requirements for each series.

Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).

7. Do you meet the specialized experience for the CN-30 as listed above?

A. Yes

B. No

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