This
is an open continuous announcement. Qualified
applicants will receive consideration as vacancies become available until their
eligibility expires (3 months from the date their name is entered on the
inventory). For additional information
concerning the period of eligibility, please see the "What To Expect
Next" section of this announcement.
Relocation payment may be granted on a case by case
basis.
Summary
This
is an open continuous announcement. Qualified
applicants will receive consideration as vacancies become available until their
eligibility expires (3 months from the date their name is entered on the
inventory). For additional information
concerning the period of eligibility, please see the "What To Expect
Next" section of this announcement.
Relocation payment may be granted on a case by case
basis.
You must successfully complete a background investigation.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show proof that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Qualifications
All applicants must meet the following basic requirements:
(education can be obtained within 9 months):
A. You have a bachelor’s or higher degree; AND
B. You have 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics). Courses may be credited as statistical provided the course content is at least 50 percent statistical methods; AND
C. You have 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.; OR
D. You do not have a bachelor’s or higher degree but do meet the course work requirements specified in “B” and “C” above, and also have additional experience or education. Your experience includes a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing and analyzing statistical data; and (c) applying known statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance. Your combination of education and experience must total at least four years.
Notes Regarding Qualifying Education:
If you will meet any of the above education requirements within 9 months, you must submit documentation that includes specific information on the classes you will complete within the next 9 months. List the title and course number of the class, the department and college/university offering the class, the number of semester or quarter hours credit given for the class, and the date you expect to complete the class.
Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements will be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods. If the statistical content of a course cannot be determined based on the course title, you must submit an official course description for the course, or written documentation (documentation must be on official school letterhead) from a professor or other school official verifying that the content of the course is at least 50 percent statistical methods.
In addition to the basic requirements for all applicants described above, applicants applying for the GS-11 grade level must meet one of the following requirements (education can be obtained with 9 months):
A. You have Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or you have three years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D.; OR
B. You have had at least one year of professional work experience, equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal Service, where your analytical approaches and results were very generally reviewed for technical and professional adequacy. Your assignments required that you select and adapt standard statistical techniques from text books, handbooks, or other professional literature for a variety of problems when related precedents were available. Your assignments included work in all of the following areas: 1) designing and developing specifications for data collection and data processing requirements, operating procedures, training materials, and operational schedules for statistical studies and surveys; 2) selecting and applying advanced statistical analysis to socio/economic or demographic data, and developing professional papers or reports on such data; or you have had at least one year of experience supervising field data collection activities in large scale statistical surveys or studies; OR
C. You have a combination of graduate education described in “A” and experience described in “B” that when combined meets 100% of the qualifications requirements of this position. To calculate your percentage of graduate education, divide the number of graduate semester hours by 18. To determine your percentage of qualifying experience, divide your total number of months of qualifying experience, as described in “B” above, by 12. The two percentages must total at least 100% for you to qualify under the combination of education and experience.
In addition to basic requirements for all applicants described above, applicants applying for the GS-12 grade level must meet the following requirement (education can be obtained within 9 months): You had at least one year of professional work experience, equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal Service, where your work was generally reviewed only for adherence to accepted professional standards. Your assignments regularly required that you develop solutions to difficult statistical or analytical problems that did not have readily available precedents, establish analytical methodology, design sampling and estimation procedures for surveys, document work results and findings, and prepare oral and written technical reports. Your assignments included responsibility for all of the following: 1) independently leading a team to plan a statistical survey or study, 2) developing survey and data collection specifications, 3) establishing time schedules for various phases of survey operations, 4) coordinating the accomplishment and management of the various phases of the study or survey, and 5) making presentations and planning the analysis of the socioeconomic or demographic data developed by the survey or study.
Education
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.
Additional information
Career
Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) and Interagency Career Transition Assistance
Plan (ICTAP) candidates will be eligible if it is determined that they have
exceeded the minimum qualifications for the position by attaining at least a
rating of 85 out of 100. Information
about CTAP/ICTAP eligibility is on the Office of Personnel Management's Career
Transition Resources website at: http://www.opm.gov/ctap/index.asp. CTAP/ICTAP applicants MUST submit the
following documents:
1. A
copy of your specific RIF notice, written notice of your expected separation or
other documentation of priority consideration status;
2. A
copy of your latest SF-50 - noting current position, grade level, and duty
location;
3. A
copy of your last performance appraisal including your rating; and
4.
Any documentation from your agency that shows your current promotion potential.
The
Department of Commerce provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with
disabilities. If you need a reasonable
accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify
the Human Resources Office. The decision
on granting reasonable accommodation will be on a case-by-case basis. TTY users can contact the Human Resources
Office via the Federal Relay Service, 1-800-877-8339.
Relocation Expenses will be
paid on a case by case basis
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Additional benefits available at our Headquarters located in Suitland, MD, include fitness center; child-care facility; credit union; free parking; convenient access to Metrorail and Metrobus transit services in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia communities; car pools/van pools; etc.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Once the hiring agency submits a request to fill a position, you will be placed in one of three pre-defined quality categories. The three categories are:
Gold - Applicants possessing a background that demonstrates a superior level of possession of all evaluation criteria.
Silver - Applicants possessing a background that demonstrates a satisfactory level of possession of the evaluation criteria.
Bronze - Applicants possessing the specialized experience described above.
Application of Veterans' Preference: Category rating and selection procedures place
those with veterans’ preference above non-preference eligibles within each
category. Veterans who meet the eligibility and qualification requirements and
who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10 percent are
listed in the highest quality category
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Additional benefits available at our Headquarters located in Suitland, MD, include fitness center; child-care facility; credit union; free parking; convenient access to Metrorail and Metrobus transit services in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia communities; car pools/van pools; etc.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
*Resume showing relevant experience; cover
letter optional. Your resume must indicate your citizenship
and if you are registered for Selective Service if you are a male born after
12/31/59. Your resume should also list
your education and work experience including the dates (mm/dd/yy) of each
employment along with the number of hours worked per week. Your resume will be used to validate your
responses to the assessment tool(s).
*Veterans' Documentation. If you are applying through VEOA or VRA, you must submit a
copy of your Certificate of Release or Discharge From Active Duty, DD-214
(Member 4 copy), or other official documentation from a branch of the Armed
Forces or the Department of Veterans Affairs showing dates of service and type
of discharge. Ten-point preference eligibles must also submit an Application
for 10-Point Veteran Preference, SF-15, along with the required documentation listed on the back
of the SF-15 form.
*Sole Survivorship
Documentation. If you are applying as Sole Survivorship
preference, you must provide a copy of your DD-214 (Member Copy 4 is
preferable) or another form of official documentation which shows your discharge
or release from active duty occurred on or after August 29, 2008 and was based
on a sole survivorship discharge.
*Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)
and Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) documentation, if
applicable. See the “Other Information” section.
*Education. If this position requires higher education, you must submit an unofficial transcript
or a list of courses that includes the following information: name of accredited institution, grades
earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned. Education completed in foreign colleges or
universities may be used to meet the requirements. Please refer to http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/policy/ApplicationOfStds-04.asp
for more information.
You
are not required to submit official documents at this time; copies are
sufficient.
Special
Instructions for Foreign Education:
Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries
must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and
universities. Applicants educated in
whole or in part of foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence,
including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency
evaluation of course work and degree. A
listing of these accredited organizations can be found here at
http://www.naces.org/members.htm. You must provide a copy of the letter
containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course
listing along with your application.
Failure to provide such documentation when requested will result in lost
consideration.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To
apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and
submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below.
The
complete Application Package must be submitted by Monday, March 13, 2017 and
include:
·
Resume
·
Response
to online questions, and
·
Required
supporting documentation
To
begin the process, click the Apply Online button at the bottom of this screen
to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the
prompts to complete the assessment questionnaire. Please ensure you click the
Submit My Answers button at the end of the process.
To
fax supporting documents you are unable to upload, complete this cover page
http://staffing.opm.gov/pdf/usascover.pdf using the following 1370711. Fax your
documents to 1-478-757-3144.
2.
Print this 1203FX form to provide your response to the assessment questionnaire
http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdfimage/opm1203fx.pdf and
3.
Fax the completed 1203FX form along with any supporting documents to
1-478-757-3144. Your 1203FX will serve as a cover page for your fax
transmission.
COMMERCE Bureau of Census
Please do not send mail
Washington, DC 00000
Next steps
After all application packages have been received, we will review
your resume to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. After we
review and evaluate all applications, the most highly qualified candidates will
be referred to the hiring manager for further consideration and possible
interviews. After a tentative job offer, we will conduct a suitability and or
security background investigation. You will be notified up to four times during
the hiring process:
1. Upon receipt of your application.
2. Upon minimum qualification determinations.
3. After the certificate is issued.
4. After final selection is made.
You may check the status of your application for this position at any time by
logging onto the USAJOBS "My Account" tab and clicking on
"Application Status". We also recommend you opt to receive status
change emails through USAJOBS by logging into "Notification
Settings." Please notify us if your contact information changes after the
closing date of the announcement. Also, note that if you provide an email
address that is inaccurate, or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam
blocker), you may not receive important communication that could affect your
consideration for this position.
PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT CONSIDERATION: Qualified
applicants will receive employment consideration for a period of three months
from the date their name is entered on the inventory. Applicants may request an
extension of their eligibility by submitting a written request within two weeks
of their expiration date to OPM’s email address: washington@opm.gov. Only ONE
extension will be granted. Applicants who would like consideration beyond the
six months period MUST reapply.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
*Resume showing relevant experience; cover
letter optional. Your resume must indicate your citizenship
and if you are registered for Selective Service if you are a male born after
12/31/59. Your resume should also list
your education and work experience including the dates (mm/dd/yy) of each
employment along with the number of hours worked per week. Your resume will be used to validate your
responses to the assessment tool(s).
*Veterans' Documentation. If you are applying through VEOA or VRA, you must submit a
copy of your Certificate of Release or Discharge From Active Duty, DD-214
(Member 4 copy), or other official documentation from a branch of the Armed
Forces or the Department of Veterans Affairs showing dates of service and type
of discharge. Ten-point preference eligibles must also submit an Application
for 10-Point Veteran Preference, SF-15, along with the required documentation listed on the back
of the SF-15 form.
*Sole Survivorship
Documentation. If you are applying as Sole Survivorship
preference, you must provide a copy of your DD-214 (Member Copy 4 is
preferable) or another form of official documentation which shows your discharge
or release from active duty occurred on or after August 29, 2008 and was based
on a sole survivorship discharge.
*Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)
and Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) documentation, if
applicable. See the “Other Information” section.
*Education. If this position requires higher education, you must submit an unofficial transcript
or a list of courses that includes the following information: name of accredited institution, grades
earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned. Education completed in foreign colleges or
universities may be used to meet the requirements. Please refer to http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/policy/ApplicationOfStds-04.asp
for more information.
You
are not required to submit official documents at this time; copies are
sufficient.
Special
Instructions for Foreign Education:
Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries
must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and
universities. Applicants educated in
whole or in part of foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence,
including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency
evaluation of course work and degree. A
listing of these accredited organizations can be found here at
http://www.naces.org/members.htm. You must provide a copy of the letter
containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course
listing along with your application.
Failure to provide such documentation when requested will result in lost
consideration.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To
apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and
submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below.
The
complete Application Package must be submitted by Monday, March 13, 2017 and
include:
·
Resume
·
Response
to online questions, and
·
Required
supporting documentation
To
begin the process, click the Apply Online button at the bottom of this screen
to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the
prompts to complete the assessment questionnaire. Please ensure you click the
Submit My Answers button at the end of the process.
To
fax supporting documents you are unable to upload, complete this cover page
http://staffing.opm.gov/pdf/usascover.pdf using the following 1370711. Fax your
documents to 1-478-757-3144.
2.
Print this 1203FX form to provide your response to the assessment questionnaire
http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdfimage/opm1203fx.pdf and
3.
Fax the completed 1203FX form along with any supporting documents to
1-478-757-3144. Your 1203FX will serve as a cover page for your fax
transmission.
COMMERCE Bureau of Census
Please do not send mail
Washington, DC 00000
Next steps
After all application packages have been received, we will review
your resume to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. After we
review and evaluate all applications, the most highly qualified candidates will
be referred to the hiring manager for further consideration and possible
interviews. After a tentative job offer, we will conduct a suitability and or
security background investigation. You will be notified up to four times during
the hiring process:
1. Upon receipt of your application.
2. Upon minimum qualification determinations.
3. After the certificate is issued.
4. After final selection is made.
You may check the status of your application for this position at any time by
logging onto the USAJOBS "My Account" tab and clicking on
"Application Status". We also recommend you opt to receive status
change emails through USAJOBS by logging into "Notification
Settings." Please notify us if your contact information changes after the
closing date of the announcement. Also, note that if you provide an email
address that is inaccurate, or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam
blocker), you may not receive important communication that could affect your
consideration for this position.
PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT CONSIDERATION: Qualified
applicants will receive employment consideration for a period of three months
from the date their name is entered on the inventory. Applicants may request an
extension of their eligibility by submitting a written request within two weeks
of their expiration date to OPM’s email address: washington@opm.gov. Only ONE
extension will be granted. Applicants who would like consideration beyond the
six months period MUST reapply.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
