This position is located in Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPED), Budget Service, Cost Estimation and Analysis Division (CEAD) located in Washington, DC. The division is responsible for developing full-cost estimates for the Federal Pell Grant, Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL), and Ford Direct Student Loan (FDSL) programs.

Duties

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date.  We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.As a Statistician (Education), GS-1530-14, you will be responsible for:

Requirements

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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification RequirementsYou may meet the minimum qualifications for the GS-14, if you possess the specialized experience below.Specialized Experience for the GS-14One year of experience in either federal or non-federal service that is equivalent to at least a GS-13 performing two (2) out of three (3) following duties or work assignments: 1. Experience leading/overseeing the design, planning, and execution of statistical studies.2. Experience consulting, evaluating, and analyzing all aspects of statistical application. 3. Experience developing statistical methodologies to analyze data; and applying statistical theories, principles, and techniques. 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. Skills in applying a wide range of complex analytical, mathematical, and statistical methods, principles, and practices to research, plan, initiate, and direct analyses of major education databases focusing on specific issues, policies, and programs.2. Knowledge of statutory provisions, regulations, and guidelines relevant to education programs, emphasizing postsecondary education, to evaluate critical factors, prepare technical reports on methods and findings, and offer innovative recommendations related to assignment area.3. Knowledge of Agency programs and objectives sufficient to plan, conduct, and oversee analytic studies.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement.

Applicants must meet BOTH the Basic Requirement and the Specialized experience requirements in order to qualify for this position.

STATISTICS SERIES 1530

Basic Requirements:

Applicants must meet BOTH Basic Requirement and Specialized experience requirement in order to qualify for this position.

This position has a positive education requirement. The Basic requirement for education is:

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.

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-OFC OF PLANNING, EVAL. & POLICY DEVEL. 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, District of Columbia 20202 United States
• Name: Senora Jones
• Phone: 202-987-1235
• Email: [email protected]