Job opening: Mathematical Statistician
Salary: $117 962 - 153 354 per year
Published at: Dec 16 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Diversion Control Division, UN Reporting & Quota Section.
This position(s) primary purpose is to design, develop, and adapt mathematical methods and techniques. Utilizes a number of planning and evaluation activities in ensuring the validity of statistical information upon which agency and Federal policy decisions are made in the development, direction and coordination of the Diversion Control effort.
Duties
As a Mathematical Statistician, your typical work assignments may include:
Reviewing, adapting, and modeling domestic manufacturing and distribution efforts necessary to meet legitimate US medical and scientific needs.
Determining the availability of relevant data, performs methodological research, and generating inferences about drug abuse problems based on comprehensive analysis of data.
Defining difficult and unique problems, conducting research, collecting data, reducing findings to facts, and interpreting and documenting findings.
Ensuring the validity of statistical information upon which agency and Federal policy decisions are made in the development, direction and coordination of the Diversion Control effort.
Exploring mathematical, statistical, and information handling, and generating inferences about the drug abuse and chemical diversion problems based on comprehensive analysis of the data.
Assessing data and applying mathematical or statistical tools to index/model that reasonably anticipate future legitimate domestic needs of internationally controlled narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Preparing complex technical and special reports, papers, presentations, briefing papers, and statistical materials based on the data collected and analyzed.
Providing innovative recommendations for advancing models of legitimate medical and scientific drug and chemical consumption, diversion estimates of drugs and chemicals, and for resolving obscure problems related to drug and chemical diversion.
Serving as spokesperson in defining the significance of drug abuse and chemical diversion statistics supporting drug and chemical control action.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service: Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see http://www.sss.gov/).
- Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit: http://www.dhs.gov/E-Verify/.
- Incumbent is subject to random drug testing.
- Selectee may be required to serve a probationary period.
- Employment is subject to the successful completion of a background investigation. Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Qualifications
For more information on eligibility requirements see: DEA Employment Eligibility
Applicants must meet all of the required qualification requirements described below by the closing of this announcement. If you are qualifying based on education or if there are mandatory education requirements listed below, you MUST submit a copy of your college transcript with your application.
Basic Qualification Requirements:
A. Degree: that includes 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, of which at least 12 semester hours were in mathematics and 6 semester hours were in statistics.
OR
B. 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.
AND
Have at least one full year of qualifying specialized experience that is at least equivalent in difficulty and complexity to work performed at the GS-1529-12 grade level. Specialized experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.
Qualifying experience must demonstrate the following:
GS-13: One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level or pay band in the Federal service that includes performing at least four (4) of the six (6) the following duties: 1) Design, develop, and adapt mathematical methods and techniques to statistical processes; 2) Ensure the validity of statistical data for policy decisions and resource allocation; 3) Prepare complex technical reports, presentations and statistical materials based on data collected and analyzed; conduct research, collect data, reduce findings to facts, and interpret and document findings; 4) Use mathematical and statistical measures/models to resolve problems and make recommendations; 5) Defend/explain conclusions resulting from evaluation of data; or 6) Evaluate the precision and validity of estimates and investigate sources and magnitude of error in data.
Additional information on the position qualification requirements are located in the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Qualifications Standards Handbook.
Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Education
This position requires specific coursework and a degree to meet the basic education requirement.
You must submit an official transcript, unofficial transcript, or a list including courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned. Your transcript(s) must clearly demonstrate the course(s) listed in the qualification requirement section. If the transcript(s) does not clearly demonstrate this you must submit a copy of the course description and/or other documentation demonstrating that the courses are equivalent.
See the qualification section of this vacancy announcement for education requirements.
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. For a list of accredited organizations recognized as specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials, visit:
www.naces.org/members.php
If you are claiming education as any part of your qualifications for this position, you must submit an official transcript, unofficial transcript, or a list including courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned. Failure to provide such documentation with your application will result in lost consideration.
Contacts
- Address Drug Enforcement Administration
Do Not Send Postal Mail
Springfield, VA 21310
US
- Name: DEONNA WALKER
- Phone: (571)776-2612
- Email: [email protected]
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