Statistician, Gs-1530-13, Mp (open Continuous)

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Job description

Summary

This position is located in the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Program Legal Group (PLG), Civil Rights Data Collection Team (CRDC), headquarters in Washington, DC. The incumbent works under the direction of the CRDC Team Leader, and supports PLG's Director, and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy. Since 1968, OCR has conducted the CRDC to collect data on key education and civil rights issues in our nation's public schools.

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Overview

• Accepting applications

• Open & closing dates
  
  07/06/2021 to 07/05/2022
• Salary
  
  $103,690 - $134,798 per year
• Pay scale & grade
  
  GS 13
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  Location
  
  • Washington, DC Few vacancies
• Telework eligible
  
  Yes-as determined by the agency policy.
• Travel Required
  
  Occasional travel - 10% or less
• 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
  
  Moderate Risk (MR)
• Trust determination process
  
  Suitability/Fitness
• Announcement number
  
  OCR-HQ-2
• Control number
  
  

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This job is open to

• Individuals with disabilities
• Federal employees - Competitive service
  
  Current or former competitive service federal employees.
• Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
  
  Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.
• Land & base management
  
  Certain current or former term or temporary federal employees of a land or base management agency.
• Military spouses
• Family of overseas employees
  
  Family members of a federal employee or uniformed service member who is or was, working overseas.
• Peace Corps & AmeriCorps Vista
• Special authorities
  
  Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed above, but defined in the federal hiring regulations.
• Veterans

Clarification from the agency

• Current federal civilian employees in the competitive service on permanent career or career-conditional appointments; Former federal employees with reinstatement eligibility; Current federal employees eligible under Interchange Agreements; and, Applicants eligible under special hiring authorities (Schedule A, etc.). If you do not meet one of these categories, you may apply under the concurrently advertised vacancy announcement: OCR-HQ-2, which is open to all United States Citizens.

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Duties

This is an open continuous announcement with cutoff dates. Applications will be referred based on receipt of application and established cutoff dates as follows:

1st cutoff: August 5, 2021

2nd cutoff: September 6, 2021

3rd cutoff: October 6, 2021

4th cutoff: November 8, 2021

5th cutoff: December 7, 2021

6th cutoff: January 6, 2022

7th cutoff: February 7, 2022

8th cutoff: March 7, 2022

9th cutoff: April 6, 2022

10th cutoff: May 5, 2022

11th cutoff: June 6, 2022

END DATE: July 5, 2022

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Statistician, GS-1530-13, you will be responsible for:

The incumbent of this position provides methodological, statistical and conceptual formulations, advice, and guidance to OCR managers to determine institutional compliance with the civil rights laws, a major component of OCR's national civil rights compliance and enforcement program.

The Statistician:

- Handles the most complex aspects of applying the principles and theories of statistical analytics and OCR-related legal requirements to determining compliance with the civil rights laws under OCR's jurisdiction.
- Provides coordination and leadership where necessary to OCR managers, staff, or representatives from other ED components to develop, plan, and use statistical evaluation methodologies to determine civil rights compliance.
- Researches and develops new or revised methodological and analytical statistical approaches to determine compliance with the subject matter areas under OCR's jurisdiction, as well as to gather additional research to be used by policymakers and researchers in civil rights and educational fields.
- Represents OCR in a variety of meetings and conferences, maintains effective relationships with professional groups and education officials at the federal, state, and local levels, and presents information to OCR and Department leaders in an accurate and thorough manner.

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Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Must be a US Citizen
• Males 18 and over must be registered with the Selective Service.
• You may be subject to serve a one-year probationary period.
• Relocation will not be paid.

You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

If you are a current federal employee, you must meet all time-in-grade and time-after competitive appointment qualifications within 30 days of the closing date of this vacancy announcement. To verify that you meet these requirements, we will review your responses to the core eligibility questions on the occupational questionnaire, as well as your submitted resume and required documents. To make an accurate determination, you will need to include on your resume your federal position title, pay plan, occupational series, grade level, agency, dates for which you held the grade level (stated as MM/YYYY to MM/YYYY, OR MM/YYYY to PRESENT), and total hours worked per week.

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).

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification Requirements
You may meet the minimum qualifications for the GS-13, if you possess the specialized experience, education, or a combination of the two.

Specialized Experience for the GS-13
One year of experience in either federal or non-federal service that is equivalent to at least a GS-12 performing two (2) out of three (3) of the following duties or work assignments:

1. Experience conducting complex statistical analyses concerning civil rights matters and effectively communicating about such analyses with internal and external stakeholders.
2. Experience publishing high-quality reports on data from large data files with many data elements, and effectively communicating about such reports with internal and external stakeholders.
3. Experience developing/drafting surveys and submission tools to measure and collect data related to civil rights compliance, including development of business rules and other data quality checks demonstrated to improve data quality.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)
The quality of your experience will be measured by the extent to which you possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs). You do not need to provide separate narrative responses to these KSAs, as they will be measured by your responses to the occupational questionnaire (you may preview the occupational questionnaire by clicking the link at the end of the Evaluations section of this vacancy announcement).

1. Knowledge of a wide range of complex analytical and statistical theories, principles, and practices to perform the full range of statistical duties.
2. Ability to plan, coordinate, and execute studies of marked difficulty and responsibility in a timely and effective manner.
3. Knowledge of OCRs jurisdiction and adjacent legal and policy areas, and skill in designing sample surveys and modifying established methods.
4. Skill in communicating effectively in order to effectively explain and exchange information with colleagues and management, including written and oral/in-person communication skills.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement.

STATISTICS GS-1530

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..... click apply for full job details