Statistician - Arlington, United States - US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Verified Company

Arlington, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Duties:

Typical work assignments include:

Providing statistically sound advice to CISA's Statistical Official (SO) for the development of the statistical plans for CISA programs, objectives, policies, and procedures.
Establishing and overseeing CISA's statistical activities and policies and implementing DHS statistical data standards and statistical data sharing agreements.
Working with CISA CDO on all matters related to the management, governance, collection, analysis, protection, use, production, dissemination, and availability of statistical reporting data.

Requirements:

Conditions of Employment:

You must be a U.S. citizen.
All Federal employees are required to participate in Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer for salary payments.
DHS uses E-Verify, an Internetbased system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.
You must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance suitable for Federal employment as determined by a background investigation. This may include a credit check, a review of financial issues, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs.
Oneyear probationary period may be required.
This position may be designated as essential personnel. Essential personnel must be able to serve during continuity of operation events without regard to declarations of liberal leave or government closures due to weather, protests, and acts of terrorism or lack of funding. Failure to report for or remain in this position may result in disciplinary or adverse action in accordance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations (5 U.S.C and 5 CFR Part 752, as applicable).
This position requires a preemployment drug test. All applicants tentatively selected for this position will be required to submit to a drug test to screen for illicit/illegal drug use prior to receiving a final offer of employment. A final offer of employment is contingent upon a negative drug test result.

Qualifications:

To be considered mínimally qualified for this position, you must demonstrate that you have the required education and education and/or experience for the respective grade level in which you are applying.
Applicants must demonstrate that they meet the Basic Requirements
AND Minimum Qualification requirements as listed below.

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BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

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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.

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IN ADDITION TO MEETING THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS ABOVE, YOU MUST ALSO MEET THE FOLLOWING MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

You qualify for the GS-14 grade level, if you have:

EXPERIENCE:
At least one (1) year of specialized experience at the GS-13 grade level (or equivalent) performing at least 2 of 3 of the following duties:

Planning and executing novel and complex statistical studies that involved several related studies or several segments of a large data collection project that required simultaneous coordination.
Developing and/or presenting comprehensive professional papers or reports on statistical studies or surveys.
Advising others on recognizing and evaluating significant and critical factors in research to draw inferences using statistical data and solve complex problems.

NOTE:
There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at the GS-14 level.

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.

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

Education:

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