Positions are located in the Bureau of Justice Statistics, DOJ's principal statistical agency. Your work will involve designing, processing, coordinating core and periodic data collections; applying appropriate theories, techniques, and methods for analyzing, interpreting, and reporting on statistical information; and producing a variety of analytical models, survey instruments, and statistics.

Duties

(The duties described reflect the full performance level of this position)

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Subject to background/suitability investigation/determination.
• Submit all required documents.
• Federal payments are required to be made by Direct Deposit.
• Requires registration for the Selective Service. Visit www.sss.gov.
• Pre-employment drug testing required.
• 1-year probationary period may be required.

Qualifications

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:A. Applicants must show successful completion of a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included 15 semester/22 quarter hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester/9 quarter hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester (13 quarter) 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 is given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content includes statistical methods, e.g., courses that included studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements of business cycles, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data, such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing.ORB. 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.ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADE 11:In addition to meeting the basic entry qualification requirements, applicants must have had either specialized experience and/or directly related education in the amounts shown below. Education and experience may be combined to meet the total experience requirements. 1. The applicant must have completed three (3) years of progressively higher level graduate education leading toward or having achieved a Ph.D. degree or an equivalent doctoral degree when it provided the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.OR2. The applicant must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-9.Specialized experience is experience which is in or related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Examples include: prepared preliminary drafts of portions of comprehensive statistical studies or analyses; conducted portions of broad statistical projects using a variety of established data collection methods; wrote or edited statistical reports; evaluated the methodology of conventional and precedented studies.ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRMENTS FOR GRADE 12:In addition to meeting the basic entry qualification requirements, applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level.Specialized experience is experience which is in or related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Examples include: wrote or edited statistical reports that included analysis of varied technical problems and issues; evaluated statistical results in consultation with subject matter specialist; planned and conducted portions of broad statistical projects using various and extensive methods of data collection; applied computerized modeling mathematics techniques.Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.aspAll qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Click here to see the full Qualifications Statement.

Education

See Qualifications.

Contacts

• Address Office of Justice Programs 810 7th Street NW Washington, Dist of Columbia 20531 US
• Name: Kathleen Smith
• Email: [email protected]