This position is located in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in Washington, DC. IES is the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. The incumbent will be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of studies on school climate and characteristics. The position is telework eligible consistent with the Agency’s telework and remote work program policy.  

Duties

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 150 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 150th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.As a Statistician (Education), GS-1530-12, you will be responsible for:• Working in a team to design and implement data collections on important education policy topics including school climate and safety, principal and teacher workforce characteristics and attrition.    • Developing and managing data collection contracts.    • Developing statistical products and responding to questions from the public, policy makers and the media about the data products.    

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Males 18 and over must be registered with the Selective Service.
• Relocation will not be paid.
• You may be subject to serve a one-year probationary period.
• A background investigation and fingerprints will be required.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification Requirements You may meet the minimum qualifications for the GS-12, if you possess the specialized experience, education, or a combination of the two.Specialized Experience for the GS-12:One year of experience in either federal or non-federal service that is equivalent to at least a GS-11 performing two (2) out of three (3) following duties or work assignments:1. Experience developing and conducting large-scale sample-based surveys.2. Experience developing, executing, or administering survey research grants or contracts.3. Experience working in one or more of the following K-12 education policy subject areas: school climate, school crime and safety, principal and teacher workforce patterns.EDUCATION (see EDUCATION SECTION of the vacancy announcement)Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) The quality of your experience will be measured by the extent to which you possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs). You do not need to provide separate narrative responses to these KSAs, as they will be measured by your responses to the occupational questionnaire (you may preview the occupational questionnaire by clicking the link at the end of the Evaluations section of this vacancy announcement).1. Ability to manage large-scale education data collection projects.2. Ability to develop, monitor, and document data collection operations, and to collaborate with senior staff to develop complex data collection programs.3. Ability to manage multiple research tasks and contracts at the same time.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement.

STATISTICS GS-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.

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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.

Education cannot be substituted for experience for this position and grade level. 

Foreign Education:

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must submit a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.  For further information, please click Foreign Education.

Contacts

• Address EDUCATION-INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES 400 Maryland Ave. S.W. Attn: Human Resources Services Washington, District of Columbia 20202 United States
• Name: Carrie Marez
• Phone: 303-844-3545
• Email: [email protected]