Statistician (Operations And Administration)

• Provide statistical support (both sampling and analysis) to all DFAS Operations organizations.
• Develops new and updates existing statistical (survey) sampling plans for various reviews and applications within DFAS and the Department of Defense (DoD) using professional texts and publications on statistical (survey) sampling methodology.
• Provide quantitative analytical support to both DFAS and external DoD customers (e.g. service components and Defense Agencies) for statistical applications.
• Verifies information at the request of the DoD Comptrollers Office military service members and other DoD components.
• Analyzes using various statistical methods; such as descriptive inferential univariate multivariate and non-parametric models
• Constructs mathematical models of sampling plans using SPSS Microsoft Excel or other software programs appropriate for the specific type of data involved in the project and in adherence with applicable guidelines and regulations.
• Interprets and presents both orally and in writing results from quantitative analyses of data collected from quality or financial reviews.
• Serves as statistical consultant on teams and special projects providing professional and technical guidance in areas of statistical (survey) sampling and quantitative methods of data analysis.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National
• Background or Security Investigation - see the Additional Information field below for more details.
• Registered for Selective Service (males born after)
• Suitable for Federal employment
• Obtain/Maintain Financial Management Certification
• New employees to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify including your rights and responsibilities visit .
• The incumbent of this position will be required to be physically on-site full-time regular telework is not authorized for this position.

Qualifications

This position is being filled under the Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense via delegated authority by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. We reserve the right to close this announcement early or to extend as appropriate based upon the needs of the Agency. Qualified application packages may be referred to management at various points in the selection process depending on the number and timing of applications received. Selections may be made at any point during the announcement open period.

Human Resources will determine your qualifications for grade level based on your interest and the additional following criteria. Resumes for federal government positions need more detailed work descriptions and accomplishments than a typical private sector resume. Please be sure to clearly describe the full scope of your work experiences in your resume. Combinations of education and experience may also be sufficient.

This position has a positive education requirement. To qualify for this position you must meet the basic requirement described below:
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.

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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.

You MUST send proof of education or of certification to be considered for this position. Click here for more information on who must submit documentation at the time of application and what documentation is acceptable: Transcripts and Certifications.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement qualified applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-11) in the Federal service which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position.

Specialized experience is defined as experience such as: Experience applying advanced statistical principles to large-scale financial and accounting systems. This includes designing and implementing statistical sampling plans to test financial transactions performing complex data analysis using software like SPSS or SAS and applying a wide range of analytical techniques such as regression and variance analysis.

Volunteer Experience: 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 to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience including volunteer experience.

You may qualify for consideration if meeting time-in grade specialized experience education requirement 90 days after competitive appointment requirement and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement unless otherwise indicated on the announcement.