Mathematical Statistician (Data Scientist) or Statistician (Data Scientist)

WHAT IS THE SMALL BUSINESS / SELF-EMPLOYED DIVISION?

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A description of the business units can be found at :

Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas :

• SB / SE Operations Support
• Business Development Office

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level :

Serves as a technical expert with responsibility for the initiation, planning, implementation, controlling, modifying and executing of all or part of an entire project, including such tasks as formulation of workload estimates for program segments, specification of the methodology to be used, preparation of appropriate specifications and procedures, and review of computer systems specifications and materials and instructions needed for assuring the adequacy of the project's design and objectives.

Explores novel methods of retrieving data and develops innovative recommendations to management and senior leadership as a means for making data driven decisions such as modification of processes and policies.

Reviews, evaluates, validates, and documents the results of the findings.

Assists the supervisor in determining the scope, goals and schedules for future programs in the Office. Results have a direct impact on assigned area's policy.

Acts as a troubleshooter in resolving bottlenecks at any step in a project by identifying and proposing solutions; this may include coordination with other project team members or stakeholders to mitigate issues.

• Collaborates with business and technology partners to understand business needs, identify opportunities, and develop and implement analytical solutions.
• Identifies and assesses relevant data sources' validity and reliability to meet project needs.
• Collates, cleans, transforms, analyzes, and integrates structured and unstructured data from various sources in preparation for analysis.

This position has career progression. If you are selected at a grade level lower than the full working level, you may be non-competitively promoted as your career progresses.

For example, you may be hired as a GS-05, but if the position has career progression to GS-11, then you may move from a GS-05 to a GS-11 in as little as three years.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National and provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.

Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or one year of experience refers to full-time work;

part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month / year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement :

BASIC REQUIREMENTS : GS-1530 Statistician (Data Scientist) :

You must have 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.

Combination of education and experience courses as shown 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.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS : GS-1529 Mathematical Statistician (Data Scientist) :

You must have a degree that included courses in mathematics and statistics totaling at least 24 semester hours. This course work must have included a minimum of 12 semester hours of mathematics and 6 semester hours were in statistics.

A combination of education and experience that includes at least 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, including at least 12 hours in mathematics and 6 hours in statistics, as described above;

and Experience that showed evidence of statistical work.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below :

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR GS-09 : You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service.

You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows : Two (2) full academic years of progressively higher-level graduate education in Mathematics, statistics or related field of study from an accredited college or university.

Master's or equivalent degree in Mathematics, statistics or related field of study from an accredited college or university.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR GS-11 : You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service.

You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows : Three (3) full academic years of progressively higher level graduate education in Mathematics, Statistics or related fields.

Ph. D. or equivalent doctoral degree Mathematics, Statistics or related field of study from an accredited college or university.

Required Documents

The following documents are required and must be provided with your application. All application materials, including transcripts, must be in English.

• Online Application - Questionnaire
• Education - See Education Section above
• Registration / License (if applicable) - active, current registration / license
• High School Diploma - If you are 16 or 17 years of age, you MUST submit documentation of graduation from high school.

Please note that if you do not provide all required information, as specified in this announcement, your application will be determined incomplete.

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