These positions are located in the Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Office of Quality Improvement and Office of Strategic Business Operations. The duty location for these positions is Rockville, MD. **Applicants please note: Additional selections may be made across the Department of Health and Human Services through this vacancy announcement.**

Duties

Major Duties: As a Statistician, you will provide conceptual, programmatic, and technical guidance for data management and statistical analysis. Your major duties include: Developing high priority HRSA-relevant analysis and evaluations, identifying the appropriate analytic methods to be used, identifying potential sources of data, conducting the analyses and evaluations, and preparing results for dissemination. Identifying, designing, and conducting analyses of program data, using pertinent data from a variety of sources as appropriate, to identify trends, respond to queries, inform analyses of existing and proposed relevant policies, strengthen the program and perform management, and advance the mission. Interpreting results for both internal and external stake holders. Providing advice and expertise on data acquisition, collection, analyses and methodology including the use of epidemiologic, costs, and functional status information for program planning, monitoring and evaluation purposes. Developing written materials of a scientific nature such as summaries or reports of study findings, analytic reports, progress reports on active grants, FAQs, talking points, PowerPoint slides, visual products, and scientific publications materials. Serving as a project officer on contracts, cooperative agreements, and/or grants, monitoring projects, independently evaluating budget, and identifying problems and making innovative recommendations for their solution. NOTE: Do not cut and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Requirements

• U. S. Citizenship is required.
• Males ages 18 through 25 must be registered with the Selective Service.
• PHS Commissioned Corps applicants must submit current personnel orders.
• This position has an education requirement - Must submit transcripts.
• A one year probationary period may be required.
• Employment is subject to the successful completion of the pre-appointment process (i.e., background investigation, verification of qualifications and job requirements, completion of onboarding forms, submission of required documents, etc.)

Qualifications

THESE QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE: 08/31/2023. Do not cut and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into to your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR STATISTICIAN SERIES, 1530: 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 in 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. ALL APPLICANTS MUST PROVIDE A COPY OF THEIR UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS TO ALLOW HR TO VERIFY THAT THEY MEET THE EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS POSITION BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT. APPLICANTS WHO DO NOT PROVIDE THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION WILL BE RATED INELIGIBLE. COPIES OF DIPLOMAS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE AS VERIFICATION OF THE EDUCATION REQUIREMENT; PLEASE DO NOT SEND THEM. In addition to the OPM Individual Occupational Requirements stated above, your resume must clearly demonstrate the required minimum qualifications stated below. MINIMUM QUALIFYING SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, an applicant's one full year of specialized experience must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for successful job performance. GS-12: In order to qualify for this GS-12 position, your resume must clearly demonstrate that you have one full year of minimum qualifying specialized experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-11 level in the federal service. Examples of minimum qualifying specialized experience equal to the GS-11 level include performing the following types of tasks on a regular and recurring basis: Using statistical theories and techniques that relate to one or more of the following: experimental design, data analysis, data visualizations, sampling, forecasting to prepare reports, summaries, etc. OR Reviewing and analyzing public health data using statistical techniques and statistical software (e.g., SAS, SPSS, STATA, Tableau, etc.) including documenting the results of the analysis. GS-13: In order to qualify for this GS-13 position, your resume must clearly demonstrate that you have one full year of minimum qualifying specialized experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-12 level in the federal service. Examples of minimum qualifying specialized experience equal to the GS-12 level include performing the following types of tasks on a regular and recurring basis: Using statistical software (e.g., SAS, SPSS, STATA, Tableau, R, etc.) to handle large data set manipulations and analyses of public health data. OR Performing statistical data collection requirements activities, such as preparing, processing, and coordinating ad hoc and standing collection requirements. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; community; student; social). If such experience is on a part-time basis, you must provide the average number of hours worked per week as well as the beginning and ending dates of the experience so it can be fully credited. TO PREVIEW THE OCCUPATIONAL ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE, please click on the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12071292

Education

This position has an education requirement. You must submit a copy of your transcripts (or a list of your courses including titles, credit hours completed and grades) to document that you have met the education requirement. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. Official transcripts will be required prior to your starting work.

Foreign Education: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov.

Contacts

• Address Health Resources and Services Administration 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857 US
• Name: AskHR HRSA Helpdesk
• Phone: (301) 443-3780
• Email: [email protected]