Statistician (economics)

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Job description

Summary

This position is in the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis and select offices within the Division as listed below. The Division is headquartered in Washington, DC.

• Office of Asset Management
• Office of Corporate Finance
• Office of Economic Statistics (OES)
• Office of Financial Intermediaries
• Office of Litigation Economics
• Office of Markets 1 (OM1)
• Office of Markets 2 (OM2)
• Office of Risk Assessment

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Overview

• Accepting applications

• Open & closing dates
  
  09/09/2021 to 01/10/2022
• Salary
  
  $79,659 - $161,756 per year
  SK-11: $79,659 - $134,955 SK-12: $95,470 - $161,756
• Pay scale & grade
  
  SK 11 - 12
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  Location
  
  1 vacancy in the following location:
  
  • Washington, DC 1 vacancy
• Telework eligible
  
  Yes-as determined by the agency policy.
• Travel Required
  
  Not required
• Relocation expenses reimbursed
  
  No
• Appointment type
  
  Permanent
• Work schedule
  
  Full-time
• Service
  
  Competitive
• Promotion potential
  
  13
• Job family (Series)
  
  1530 Statistics
• Supervisory status
  
  No
• Security clearance
  
  Other
• Drug test
  
  No
• Position sensitivity and risk
  
  Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
• Trust determination process
  
  Suitability/Fitness
• Announcement number
  
  21-DH--WLJ
• Control number
  
  

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This job is open to

• The public
  
  U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

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All US Citizens

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Duties

If selected, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for addressing complex, multifaceted issues related to legal, regulatory, and business risks in the market. Typical duties at the full performance level of SK-13 include:

• Providing research, analysis, and advice to the Division and SEC staff on issues relating to the field of economics;
• Building economic models, determining empirical methodology, organizing data collection, and summarizing studies in formal and informal presentations;
• Leading economic and statistical analyses regarding regulated entities and or products for rulemaking, risk assessment, and enforcement purposes;
• Guiding and assisting senior economists in the preparation of papers and manuscripts for publication.

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Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• You must be a US Citizen.
• Application procedures are specific to this vacancy announcement. Please read all the instructions carefully. Failure to follow the instructions may result in you not being considered for this position.
• Supplementary vacancies may be filled in addition to the number stated in this announcement.
• This position has promotion potential to the SK-13 level.
• PROBATIONARY PERIOD: This appointment may require completion of a one-year probationary period.
• SECURITY CLEARANCE: Entrance on duty is contingent upon completion of a pre-employment security investigation. Favorable results on a Background Investigation may be a condition of employment or selection to another position.
• DRUG TESTING: This position may be subjected to drug testing requirements.
• PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION (PCS): Moving/Relocation expenses are not authorized.
• DIRECT DEPOSIT: All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
• This position is in the collective bargaining unit.
• Due to COVID-19, the SEC is currently in a mandatory telework posture. This position is eligible to request telework in accordance with the SEC 's telework policy.
• All SEC employees (whether teleworking or working onsite) who are not approved for a reasonable accommodation must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by no later than Nov. 22, 2021.
• For information about where to obtain a vaccine at no cost to you, please visit Vaccines.gov.

Qualifications

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Certificates will be issued on a bi-weekly basis. If all required documents are not received by the bi-weekly cut-off, your application will be reviewed once all documents are received. All required documents must be received by the closing date, to be considered.

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. 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.

BASIC REQUIREMENT:

A. Applicants must show successful completion of a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's 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. An appropriate 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 QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: In addition to meeting the basic requirement, applicants must also meet the minimum qualification requirement.

SK-11: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SK-9 level:
1. Providing statistical analysis on economic data sets to support programmatic decisions;
2. Developing and monitoring effective methods for the collection of quantitative data;
3. Interpreting results of statistical analysis; and
4. Conducting statistical studies, surveys and analyses

SK-12: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SK-11 level:
1. Evaluating economic data to determine trends, completeness and accuracy;
2. Developing statistical protocols to ensure effective and through data analysis;
3. Interpreting results of statistical analysis; and
4. Conducting statistical studies, surveys, and analyses sufficient to use in briefing materials for senior management.

Education

ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

PASS/FAIL COURSES: If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:

Additional information

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC) VACCINATION REQUIREMENT: In accordance with Executive Order 14043 (Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees) and to protect the health and safety of the federal workforce..... click apply for full job details