- Position Title
- Statistician (Operations and Administration)
- Agency
- Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
- Announcement Number
- 24-TTB-22-X Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Monday, December 18, 2023 to Tuesday, January 2, 2024
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
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Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
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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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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.
Preferences
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Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position.
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Are you currently serving or have served in the last five years in a Political Appointment in the Federal Government?
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Where did you learn about this Department of the Treasury job opportunity?
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Are you a current Federal employee?
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If you are, or ever were a Federal civilian employee, indicate the pay plan and grade level or pay band of the highest graded position you have ever held.
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Assessment 1
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I am applying for the Recent Graduates Program based on the following statement. Select the one statement that applies.
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Please state your expected graduation date.
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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).
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.
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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After carefully reading the above requirements, select one response from the options below:
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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.
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For the GS-11, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the federal service or equivalent qualifying educational accomplishment. Specialized experience for this position could include:
- Conducts analysis using statistical software to solve problems (such as Statistical Analysis Software (SAS), R studio, Python, or Structured Query Language (SQL)) AND
- Communicating analytical results in the form of written documents, graphs, charts, tables or dashboards (such as in Tableau or PowerBI); AND
- Working with open data assets, data inventories or metadata, and familiarity with OPEN Government Data Act, and Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy Making Act.
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3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral. (Attach a copy of transcript or list of college courses designating semester or quarter hours earned to ensure proper credit.)
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You may qualify on a combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.
- Conducts analysis using statistical software to solve problems (such as Statistical Analysis Software (SAS), R studio, Python, or Structured Query Language (SQL)) AND
- Communicating analytical results in the form of written documents, graphs, charts, tables or dashboards (such as in Tableau or PowerBI); AND
- Working with open data assets, data inventories or metadata, and familiarity with OPEN Government Data Act, and Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy Making Act.
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3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral. (Attach a copy of transcript or list of college courses designating semester or quarter hours earned to ensure proper credit.)
OR
You may qualify on a combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.
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For the GS-11 grade level, select the answer that best describes your experience and/or education.
For the GS-9, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the federal service or equivalent qualifying educational accomplishment. Specialized experience for this position could include:
- Conducts analysis using statistical software to solve problems (such as Statistical Analysis Software (SAS), R studio, Python, or Structured Query Language (SQL)) AND
- Communicating analytical results in the form of written documents, graphs, charts, tables or dashboards (such as in Tableau or PowerBI).
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Two years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Master's degree or equivalent graduate degree (or will attain within 9 months of application). Attach a copy of transcripts or list of college courses designating semester or quarter hours earned to ensure proper credit.
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You may qualify on a combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 18 semester hours (27 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.
- Conducts analysis using statistical software to solve problems (such as Statistical Analysis Software (SAS), R studio, Python, or Structured Query Language (SQL)) AND
- Communicating analytical results in the form of written documents, graphs, charts, tables or dashboards (such as in Tableau or PowerBI).
OR
Two years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Master's degree or equivalent graduate degree (or will attain within 9 months of application). Attach a copy of transcripts or list of college courses designating semester or quarter hours earned to ensure proper credit.
OR
You may qualify on a combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 18 semester hours (27 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.
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Select the answer that best describes your experience/education as it directly relates to the GS-09 specialized experience statement. Carefully review your application and ensure that your response is supported by your resume.
For the GS-7, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the federal service or equivalent qualifying educational accomplishment. Examples of specialized experience for this position could include: (NA)
- Conducts analysis using statistical software to solve problems, such as Statistical Analysis Software (SAS), R studio, Python, or Structured Query Language (SQL).
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1 year of graduate-level education or superior academic achievement based on a bachelor's degree that is demonstrated through class standing (upper 1/3 of class); grade point average (3.0/4.0 overall or 3.5/4.0 in major), or election to membership in a qualifying national scholastic honor society (or will attain within 9 months of application).
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You may qualify on a combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent.
- Conducts analysis using statistical software to solve problems, such as Statistical Analysis Software (SAS), R studio, Python, or Structured Query Language (SQL).
OR
1 year of graduate-level education or superior academic achievement based on a bachelor's degree that is demonstrated through class standing (upper 1/3 of class); grade point average (3.0/4.0 overall or 3.5/4.0 in major), or election to membership in a qualifying national scholastic honor society (or will attain within 9 months of application).
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You may qualify on a combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent.
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Please select the response below which best describes your qualifications for this position. Your response to this question will be verified based on information provided in your resume and answers to narrative questions.
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Which statement best describes your experience in facilitating the development of analytics projects with customers?
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Which response(s) describe your experience interacting with peers, customers and high-level managers across organizational units?
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Choose the one statement that best describes your experience developing memos, briefings, and other communication materials regarding data analysis efforts to a non-technical audience.
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Which statement(s) describe your experience with statistical reviews and analysis processes? (Select all that apply)
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Which statement(s) describe your experience analyzing information and evaluating significant factors?
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I have evaluated study proposals in terms of:
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I have experience examining data quality to:
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Choose the statement(s) that describe your experience in resolving data quality issues?
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Indicate your familiarity with interpreting and applying various data and information management laws.
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What statistical software packages and programming languages have you used for data analysis? (Select all that apply)
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Which of the following techniques have you applied to an analytic project or study?
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Which of the following analysis techniques or procedures have you conducted?
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Which of the following choices best characterizes your experience using programming languages for statistical or advanced analytics?
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Choose the response(s) that describe(s) your experience improving an organization's data assets.