Description:
This vacancy is for a Supervisory Survey Statistician position at the U.S. Census Bureau, Philadelphia Regional Office located in Philadelphia, PA.This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Supervisory Survey Statistician, 1530, 13, FPL GS-13 positions within the Census Bureau in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.
Requirements:
This vacancy is advertised under 2 different announcements. Read the 'Who May Apply' section carefully to determine your eligibility. If you are not eligible under this announcement, please see 24-PHI RO-12350013-DE-NJ.
Minimum Education Requirement:
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
Combination of education and experience - courses as shown, plus appropriate experience. 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.
In addition to meeting the basic entry requirements, you must possess the below specialized experience:
Specialized Experience: For the GS-13, you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Experience for this position includes conducting or overseeing operational evaluations or similar activities involving the collection, analysis, and presentation of data; experience communicating with subordinate staff to achieve goals in the prescribed time frames; experience as a first level supervisor to include interviewing applicants, making selections and proposing performance and conduct related actions; experience using administrative program and survey research data collection to monitor and analyze survey progress; experience preparing and presenting analysis or evaluations reports to interpret survey results and propose recommendations; and experience working on a single portion of a statistical survey such as data collection, data processing, data analysis or data presentation.
Education cannot be substituted for specialized experience.
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.