- Position Title
- Supervisory Survey Statistician
- Agency
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Announcement Number
- 25-ATL RO-12654905-IMP-NJ Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, January 10, 2025 to Monday, January 20, 2025
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Eligibilities
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Are you a current employee of the Department of Commerce (DOC) 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:
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice, to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
- 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.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice, to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
2.
Are you a current Department of Commerce employee in the competitive service?
Current Department of Commerce employee (includes any Bureau under Commerce) on a term, temporary or Excepted Service appointment with reinstatement eligibility.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50), or equivalent personnel action form, reflecting your permanent, competitive status (Current Census Bureau employees need not submit SF-50). Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect career or career-conditional (Tenure 1 or 2) and must reflect that your status was in the competitive service (Position Occupied is 1).
Please note: Examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, with-in grade/range increases. While a General Adjustment and/or Award SF-50 may be your most recent SF-50 it typically DOES NOT show proof of time-in-grade. Thus, you may have to submit more than one SF-50 as proof of time-in-grade. Current Census Bureau employees do not need to submit an SF-50; however, it is highly recommended.
Current Department of Commerce employee (includes any Bureau under Commerce) on a term, temporary or Excepted Service appointment with reinstatement eligibility.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50), or equivalent personnel action form, reflecting your permanent, competitive status (Current Census Bureau employees need not submit SF-50). Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect career or career-conditional (Tenure 1 or 2) and must reflect that your status was in the competitive service (Position Occupied is 1).
Please note: Examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, with-in grade/range increases. While a General Adjustment and/or Award SF-50 may be your most recent SF-50 it typically DOES NOT show proof of time-in-grade. Thus, you may have to submit more than one SF-50 as proof of time-in-grade. Current Census Bureau employees do not need to submit an SF-50; however, it is highly recommended.
3.
Are you a current Federal employee that holds, or has previously held, a permanent (non-temporary) career or career-conditional position in the Competitive Service at the same or higher grade level with the same or higher promotion potential as the position being announced?
To verify your eligibility as a current Federal civilian employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting your permanent, competitive status and the promotion potential of the position. You may need to submit more than one SF-50.
To verify your eligibility as a current Federal civilian employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting your permanent, competitive status and the promotion potential of the position. You may need to submit more than one SF-50.
Preferences
1.
Have you held a political appointment within the previous five-year period?
Please carefully read ALL eligibility questions below and select the appropriate response. We can ONLY verify eligibility options for which you claim and provide proper documentation (see required documents section). If you fail to select a response for at least one eligibility, or you select an eligibility that you do not provide proof, your application may be marked INELIGIBLE as out of the area of consideration.
2.
I authorize my application information being shared with hiring managers for similar positions within the Census Bureau. I understand this option may not result in further consideration for additional positions nor will it impact my application for this announcement.
3.
What is the highest grade you have held on a permanent (non-temporary) basis in the federal service? If you have never held a federal position, please type "N/A".
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4.
What was the date of the promotion/appointment for the highest grade held above? Your response will assist in verifying the time-in-grade requirement. If you have never held a federal position, please type "N/A".
(limit 250 characters)
Assessment 1
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In addition to meeting the basic education requirements, do you have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least at the next lower grade level? (See the "Qualifications" section of this announcement for the definition of specialized experience.)
2.
A. Do you have 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.
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.
3.
Will you have one year of time-in-grade at the grade 12 level as of the closing date of this announcement?
4.
Indicate your experience with survey data collection instruments:
5.
Please indicate the aspects of computer-assisted survey data collection with which you have experience.
6.
Indicate your experience evaluating expenditures and progress reports in relation to planned expenditures and progress for a large-scale field data collection survey or census:
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Indicate your experience planning, implementing, supporting and monitoring program objectives and activities for data collection operations for multi-state, interviewer conducted, household based (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing, Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing, and other) data collection operations, and evaluating their effectiveness and documenting results.
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Do you have experience using statistical packages to perform statistical analyses?
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I have performed the following supervisory functions in work unit or team assignments.
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Do you have experience estimating program costs and justifying budgets?
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Have you managed multiple projects at the same time and resolved group or individual differences and/or conflicts?
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Do you have experience communicating complex issues and concepts, as well as the methods available for understanding and addressing issues/concepts in order to solve problems?
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Do you have experience assigning and reviewing the work of others responsible for the following census or survey data responsibilities?
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Do you have experience effectively communicating complex, technical information in written form and in person to a variety of audiences?