This position is located in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, working directly with the Chief Statistician of the United States. This is a Direct Hire Public Notice. Category Rating, Veterans Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply to this Public Notice. Promotion to the next highest grade level is neither guaranteed nor implied.

Duties

This position is located in the Executive Office of the President (EOP), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), and works directly with the Chief Statistician of the United States. Among the responsibilities of OIRA's Statistical and Science Policy Branch, are the promotion of the quality, integrity, and efficiency of information and statistics collected, analyzed, and disseminated by the Federal Government that facilitates evidence-based policies and programs. The six core activities of the Branch are: (1) long-range strategic planning, (2) statistical policy, standard, and regulation development and implementation, (3) statistical program evaluation and review, (4) interagency and international coordination and engagement, (5) scientific review, and (6) information quality oversight. To learn more about relevant work of the Statistical Policy team within the SSP Branch, visit https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-regulatory-affairs/statistical-programs-standards/; and the Federal statistical system, visit StatsPolicy.gov. As a Statistician, GS-1530-12/13/14/15, your typical work assignments may include the following: Serve as an expert advisor and consultant on complex survey designs, statistical model results, data quality, assessment of disclosure risk, and utility of administrative records and other unstructured data sources underlying statistical products, program evaluations, regulatory impact analyses, and risk assessments. Assess surveys and program evaluations submitted to OMB by Federal agencies from across the government for compliance with the goals and requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act; provide training to encourage agency-wide improvements in the quality and utility of their information collections. Coordinate interagency working groups that develop and implement government-wide statistical standards or best practices for measuring population characteristics, improving statistical methods and models, and disseminating statistics about small groups. Lead development or maintenance of Federal Government-wide regulations, policies, and standards designed to promote data quality, utility, comparability and consistency, and protect confidentiality, mitigate the risk of reidentification, and otherwise enhance the integrity of Federal statistics. Evaluate the implications for the Federal statistical system of proposed statutes, Executive Orders, OMB policies, and Agency policies regarding confidentiality of data, use of privacy enhancing technologies, cyber security, access to Federal statistical data, and data sharing. This position is developmental in nature, with known promotion potential to the GS-15 level. Promotion to the next highest grade level is neither guaranteed nor implied.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national.
• Selective Service registration is required if you are a male born after December 31, 1959.
• Subject to pre-employment and random drug tests.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Executive Office of the President will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify/.
• May be required to successfully complete a one year probationary period.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS All applicants must meet the qualification requirements outlined below to be considered minimally qualified for this position. The qualification requirements are in accordance with the OPM Qualification Standards. ALL QUALIFICATIONS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must meet one of the following criteria listed below in order to meet the basic requirement for Statistician, 1530 A) Possess a degree from an accredited college or university that includes 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. 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- B) Possess a combination of education and experience that includes courses as shown in the above statement, 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. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have a minimum of one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility comparable to the next lower grade or comparable pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. In order to qualify at the GS-12 grade level, applicants must meet the specialized experience below: One year of specialized experience at the GS-11 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private/public sector that demonstrates: Applying statistical theory and techniques in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of quantitative data; AND Reviewing Federal data collection, analysis, and disseminated policies, programs, and techniques used to produce Federal statistics. In order to qualify at the GS-13 grade level, applicants must meet the specialized experience below: One year of specialized experience at the GS-12 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private/public sector that demonstrates: Applying statistical theory and techniques in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of quantitative data; Reviewing Federal data collection, analysis, and disseminated policies, programs, and techniques used to produce Federal statistics; Communicating ideas, conclusions, and recommendations in a concise manner; AND Organizing and leading own work projects or tasks with limited supervisory guidance. In order to qualify at the GS-14 grade level, applicants must meet the specialized experience below: One year of specialized experience at the GS-13 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private/public sector that demonstrates: Applying statistical theory and techniques in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of quantitative data; Reviewing Federal data collection, analysis, and disseminated policies, programs, and techniques used to produce Federal statistics; Organizing and leading own work projects or tasks with minimal to no supervisory guidance; Briefing senior managers and/or policy officials orally and in writing on complex technical information in a concise manner; AND Participating in interagency committees and making substantive contributions to several projects simultaneously. In order to qualify at the GS-15 grade level, applicants must meet the specialized experience below: One year of specialized experience at the GS-14 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private/public sector that demonstrates: Applying statistical theory and techniques in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of quantitative data; Reviewing Federal data collection, analysis, and disseminated policies, programs, and techniques used to produce Federal statistics; Organizing, leading, and completing own work projects independently; Briefing senior managers and/or policy officials orally and in writing on complex technical information in a concise manner; AND Leading interagency committees and making substantive contributions to multiple projects simultaneously. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

PASS/FAIL COURSES: If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address Office of Management and Budget 725 17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20503 US
• Name: Client Services EOP - OA
• Email: [email protected]