TTB's mission is steeped in America's history, from the time of the Whiskey Rebellion to the work of agents like Eliot Ness. We are a nationwide team dedicated to collect alcohol, tobacco, firearms and ammunition excise taxes and ensure that alcohol beverages are labeled, advertised and marketed by law. We ranked 35th of 432 (top 10%) on agency subcomponents of 2022's Best Places to Work.

Duties

This position is located in TTB's Office of Analytics (OA). OA offers substantive work to govern and improve data, and to transform it into actionable insights. As a statistician you will develop and conduct analytical studies and research projects using advanced statistical techniques regarding key agency programs of major interest or having significant impact on the agency's mission. Using a variety of tools (e.g., Tableau, SAS, etc.) you will: - Query, clean, model, and interpret various data sets - Visualize data in compelling and meaningful ways for different audiences - Perform statistical analyses and generate formal statistical reports - Work with stakeholders to document and refine requirements for data analysis tools and products - Identify and solve data quality issues and to make sound planning and organizing decisions - Maintain TTB's data inventory and data dictionaries The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position. Using data and analytics, provide expert advice and consultation on critical program matters related to TTB operations, including tax collections, permit processing, and labeling. Advise TTB staff on the selection of appropriate statistical methodologies for specific problems and overseeing the implementation of the methods selected. Serve as a leader and subject matter expert in the statistics field to TTB management.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For the GS-12, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Analyzing and communicating technical requirements, AND Identifying analytical and statistical solutions.

Education

You must meet the minimum basic education and/or work experience requirements for statistician positions in the Federal government. These basic requirements include:

A. A degree that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and nine 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. A Combination of education and experience. This includes the 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.

The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Refer to the OPM instructions.

Contacts

• Address Assistant Admin - External Affairs - Chief of Staff - Office of Strategic Planning and Program Eval Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]