The U.S. Census Bureau is seeking a highly-motivated and capable executive to serve as the Chief, Economic Statistical Methods Division. This position is a Senior Executive Service (SES) Career-Reserved position. Positions in the SES are not graded. SES pay is commensurate with qualifications. SES employees are eligible for bonuses and awards based on performance. Veteran's preference is not applicable to SES.

Duties

As the Chief, Economic Statistical Methods Division, you will: Participate in the planning and formulation of Census Bureau applied statistical methods and techniques, quality standards, policy, and programs, with specific responsibility for the mathematical statistical techniques and statistical standards for producing official economic statistics primarily from businesses and public sector entities. Work directly with the senior staff of the Economic Programs Directorate to plan methods and design of programs, conduct related special studies, and formulate important applied methodological goals that affect economic statistics; work collaboratively with the Research and Methodology Directorate for problem solving and learning new research methodologies and techniques that can be applied to support business and government statistics programs. Direct the survey pretesting for the economic surveys, including cognitive and usability testing. This includes working with the survey subject matter areas on survey design and implementation of standard collection methodologies supported by survey statistics. Direct the development of special-purpose mathematical statistical theory for use in solving specific problems and documents such work for knowledge retention, transfer, and publication. Direct the staff in the development of new data products and using third-party data, including those that combine multiple sources of data. Travel Required: Occasional Travel Description: Travel may be required to attend or present at meetings and conferences on topics relevant to the U.S. Census Bureau's mission.

Requirements

Qualifications

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs): ECQ #1 - Leading Change: involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Leadership Competencies: Creativity and Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, and Vision. ECQ #2-Leading People: involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflict. Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, and Team Building. ECQ #3 - Results Driven: involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, and Technical Credibility. ECQ #4 - Business Acumen: involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, and Technology Management. ECQ #5 - Building Coalitions: involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy and Influencing/Negotiating. Fundamental Competencies: These competencies are the foundation for success in each of the Executive Core Qualifications: Interpersonal Skills, Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Written Communication, Continual Learning and Public Service Motivation. Professional and Technical Qualifications (PTQs): PTQ #1- Extensive experience and understanding of statistical theory and applications that can be applied to the leadership of a primarily mathematical statistical organization that supports large, complex surveys and/or censuses. PTQ #2- Experience in dealing effectively with and understanding the statistical needs of a broad range of data users including high-level statistical officials in Federal, state, and/or local organizations, professional groups, industry, the general public, and international agencies. PTQ #3- Broad level of experience managing or overseeing multiple, large-scale complex projects, within scope, schedule, and budget. For detailed guidance on ECQs, applicants are strongly encouraged to review the Office of Personnel Management's Guide to Executive Qualifications at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/ Example ECQ statements are available at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/reference-materials/guidetosesquals_2012.pdf

Education

MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS (1529) EDUCATION

1. Degree: that included 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, of which at least 12 semester hours were in mathematics and 6 semester hours were in statistics.

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2. Combination of education and experience -- at least 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, including at least 12 hours in mathematics and 6 hours in statistics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

STATISTICS (1530) EDUCATION

1. 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

2. 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.

Contacts

• Address Census Executive Resources - All Directorates 4600 Silver Hill Road Washington, DC 20233 US
• Name: Victoria Middleton
• Phone: 301-763-2245
• Email: [email protected]