•    The position is telework eligible consistent with the Agency’s telework and remote work program policy.This position is located in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Program Legal Group (PLG), Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), in Washington, D.C. The Supervisory Statistician GS-1530-15 supervises a staff of at least three senior level analysts & professionals on the CRDC team responsible for the data collection process and making the data available through web-based & other methods.

Duties

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th 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.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification RequirementsYou may meet the minimum qualifications for the GS-15, if you possess the specialize experience, education, or a combination of the two.Specialized Experience for the GS-15One year of experience in either federal or non-federal service that is equivalent to at least a GS-14 performing two (2) out of  three (3) of the following duties or work assignments: 1. Experience with data programs to innovate or enhance concepts and contributing to the improvements of departmental activities. 2. Experience with statistical principles, methodologies, and best practices in order to support the Department's efforts.    3. Experience with management principles, including the ability to translate organizational goals to operational tasks, and provide appropriate program and administrative guidance to staff. Basic Experience Requirements 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. 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. Knowledge of data programs sufficient to innovate or enhance concepts to improve activities. 2. Ability to plan and ensure the execution of long-range goals and projects of national scope and significance. 3. Ability to respond to inquiries received from internal and external sources. 4. Knowledge of assigned area sufficient to provide expertise on department priorities, and activities. 5. Ability to participate in panel discussions at the national and/or international level. 6. Ability to serve on committees concerned with civil rights data issues or related data issues. 7. Ability to conceive and plan internal and external engagements.

Education

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-OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 400 Maryland Ave. S.W. Attn: Human Resources Services Washington, District of Columbia 20202 United States
• Name: Bethany Lowry
• Phone: 202-987-0203
• Email: [email protected]