This vacancy is for a Supervisory Survey Statistician position in the Department of Commerce located at the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland. The Census Bureau is accessible from the Metro Rail Green Line - Suitland Station.

Duties

Convert survey specifications, and field data collection into budgets, estimates, operational and procedural plans, and detailed procedures and instructions. Develops procedures to support operations for each survey, field assignments and scheduling supervisory observations. Directs the analysis of cost, overall survey workloads, survey budgets and allocations, and established quality standards.

Requirements

• Applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• U.S. Citizen
• Suitable for Federal employment.
• Registered for Selective Service if applicable. (www.sss.gov)
• Time-in-grade/band requirements must be met by closing date.
• A supervisory probationary period may be required.
• This is a NON-BARGAINING unit position.

Qualifications

For permanent Census employees, this is a competitive temporary promotion opportunity not to exceed (NTE) 1 year or 2/10/2024, whichever comes first; this temporary promotion may be extended or terminated earlier. At the conclusion of the temporary promotion, the permanent Census employees will return to their position of record. For all other Department of Commerce (DOC) employees, this is a competitive temporary appointment opportunity not to exceed (NTE) 1 year or 2/10/2024, whichever comes first; this temporary appointment may be extended or terminated earlier. Minimum Education Requirement: 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 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. AND Specialized Experience: For the GS-14, you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 in the Federal service. Experience for this position includes: supervising or leading a team and evaluating work performance; responsible for overseeing the budget formulation; performing quality review and cost analysis of survey data collection operations; setting short and long-term survey program priorities; monitoring overall survey success under stringent deadlines and making recommendations to resolve issues. Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level. 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; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer.

Contacts

• Address Associate Director for Field 4600 Silver Hill Road Washington, DC 20233 US
• Name: Noni Jones
• Phone: 301-763-7783
• Email: [email protected]