Supervisory Survey Statistician

• Direct and apply statistical input requirements of major segments of the agricultural production and economic programs to include data sampling editing estimating and summarizing procedures to obtain the required statistical output.
• Plan and coordinate the collection analysis estimation and dissemination of statistical data
• Direct the development and production of official statistical estimates and forecasts
• Analyze and interpret complex survey data and apply statistical methodologies to develop evaluate or validate estimates forecasts statistical indicators or other analytical products.
• Manage the agencys operational survey program including its programs policies goals and objectives.
• Provide technical advice and recommendations to senior Agency officials and program managers on survey operations data analysis estimates forecasts and issues affecting agricultural statistics and related programs.
• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Lead and accomplish work through others.

• You must be a US Citizen or US National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Direct Deposit - Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Financial Disclosure Required.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify including your rights and responsibilities visit to one year supervisory/managerial probationary period unless prior service is creditable. New USDA supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required training program before the end of their probationary period.

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions specialized experience and/or education as defined below.

Time in Grade: Current federal employees applying for a promotion opportunity must meet the time in grade requirement of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled.

Basic Requirement:

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

Combination of education and experience that included the courses 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 such as measurement of central tendency dispersion skewness sampling error simple and multiple correlation analysis of variance and tests of significance.

In addition to meeting the basic requirements described above applicants must also meet additional qualification requirements as stated below.

Specialized Experience:

Specialized experience is experience directly related to the position to be filled. Specialized experience must be described for each grade level advertised. The specialized experience requirements for this position are:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level that includes:

• Leading or independently managing statistical survey or estimation programs
• Evaluating the quality accuracy and reliability of statistical data and estimates
• Applying statistical methodologies to develop or evaluate estimates forecasts statistical indicators or other analytical products.
• Providing technical advice or recommendations to senior officials concerning statistical programs