The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making. The position is located in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Field Operations.

Duties

The BLS headquarters is currently located in Washington, D.C. but is in the process of relocating within the National Capital Area to the Suitland Federal Center in Suitland, Maryland. If selected for this position, your assigned duty station will be Washington, D.C with the option to telework from an approved telework site within the locality pay area of Washington, D.C./Baltimore/Arlington while the future headquarters is being built. Upon completion of the new headquarters offices in Suitland, MD, you will be required to report onsite to the Suitland Federal Center for some portion of each pay period after receiving notification to do so. NOTE: This job is subject to a 5-day minimum on-site work requirement per pay period. Duties include, but are not limited to the following: Directs nationwide planning of field survey collection and operations for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) Directs subordinate supervisors and professional staff in the design of survey collection and operations procedures, in analyzing national survey workload demands and resource requirements, in negotiating final workload and resources with CPI program management, in allocating workload and resources, including personnel, to individual Bureau regions, and in establishing collection priorities, timetables, and objectives for regional survey execution Plans field testing and evaluation of alternative collection approaches for existing operations and new approaches for potentially changed program survey requirements Leads national execution and evaluation of CPI field survey collection and operations through the Bureau's regional offices, including regular assessment of national and individual regional program status against quantity, response, and quality deliverables Monitors field resource consumption against plan and directs actions to ensure field program operations are within allocated budget and personnel resource limits

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.

Qualifications

You must meet the Basic Requirements and the Specialized Experience to qualify for Supervisory Economist/Supervisory Statistician (Economics), as described below. Basic Requirement Economist, 0110: A) Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus. OR B) Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Statistician, 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. OR 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. Specialized Experience Specialized experienceis the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. In addition to the basic requirements above, applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-14, in the federal service. Applicants must meet at least 3 of the 4 specialized experience statements below to be found minimally qualified: Designing nationwide field survey data collection plans and operations for economic programs; Organizing, directing, and coordinating complex economic programs, including managing organizational priorities and goals; Providing authoritative, technical advice and guidance in administration and management areas, including budgetary and financial management and human resources; Interpreting policies, regulations, and standards and developing clarifications where needed

Education

Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.

If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position. Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.

Contacts

• Address Bureau of Labor Statistics 200 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20210 US
• Name: Kristen Nathe
• Phone: 312-353-2364
• Email: [email protected]