This is a developmental position within the Office of Program Policy & Evaluation (OPPE), Directorate of Program Evaluation and Information Resource. OPPE is responsible for producing and screening official data and conducting internal program evaluations and audits regarding the effectiveness of MSHA programs in protecting the health and safety of miners in accordance with the legislative and regulatory requirements of the Federal mine safety and health laws, standards, and regulations.

Duties

Duties at the developmental GS-11 level:

Requirements

• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• 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/IOR (Individual Occupational Requirement) and the Minimum Qualifications to qualify for the Statistician, GS-1530-11 position as described below. Basic Requirement: 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. Minimum Qualifications: All applicants must possess one of the following to be considered qualified for the GS-11 level. Specialized Experience: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-09 in the Federal Service. Specialized Experience is 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. Qualifying specialized experience for the GS-11 includes at least four (4) of the following: Creating tables and formulas in Excel and other statistical programs (R, SAS, Python, and/or Tableau); Evaluating and verifying data quality, accuracy and/or limitations; Conducting statistical analyses and preparing data for presentation; Applying statistical theories and techniques to create and distribute data reports and other correspondence; Making recommendations on data findings and solutions for program improvement; OR Education in lieu of specialized experience: Possess three (3) years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree that provided the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of this position; OR Combination of experience and education: Possess a combination of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in or related to the work of this position and progressively higher level graduate education that provided the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of this position.

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 course work requirements for this position.

Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.

Contacts

• Address Mine Safety and Health Administration 200 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20210 US
• Name: Tracy Sakato
• Phone: 240-867-2007
• Email: [email protected]