Job Summary

This is a developmental position within the Office of Program Policy & Evaluation (OPPE), Directorate of Program Evaluation and Information Resource. OPPE is responsible for producing and screening official data and conducting internal program evaluations and audits regarding the effectiveness of MSHA programs in protecting the health and safety of miners in accordance with the legislative and regulatory requirements of the Federal mine safety and health laws, standards, and regulations.

Job Description

You must meet the Basic Requirements and the Minimum Qualifications to qualify for Statistician, GS-1530-09 as described below. Basic Requirement: 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, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing. OR B. 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 Qualifications: GS-09: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-07 in the Federal Service. Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Qualifying specialized experience for GS-09 must include at least 4 of the following: Experience with the basic comprehension of statistical theories and techniques that relate to creating and distributing data reports and other correspondence; Experience in providing evaluation and research support; Experience in creating tables and formulas in Excel and other statistical programs (R, SAS, Python, and/or Tableau); Experience in identifying and downloading data from external data sources; Experience in researching and gathering pertinent data from a wide variety of sources, and presenting the data in a professional manner; Experience conducting statistical data analysis, queries, and making recommendations on the results. OR Education in lieu of specialized experience: Possess a Master's degree or equivalent graduate degree that provided the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to do the work of this position; OR, Possess two (2) full years of progressively higher level graduate education that provided the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to do the work of this position; OR Combination of education and experience: Possess a combination of Specialized Experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 level in or related to the work of this position and graduate level education that provided the specific knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of this position.