This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/547854600. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
The primary mission is a variety of administrative programs and data collection activities, and short range planning and special projects.
This vacancy is for a Survey Statistician position in the Chicago Regional Census Center duty stationed in Chicago, IL.
10/07/2019 to 10/09/2019
$46,554 - $107,357 per year
GG 07 - 12
No
Not required
No
Temporary - Full-Time, Time-Limited Appointment NTE 9/26/2020.
Full-time - Competitive Service:
Competitive
12
No
No
CHICAGO RO-2020-0001
547854600
Current or former competitive service federal employees.
Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Open to all U.S Citizens
The individual selected for this position will:
Applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
This announcement will close at 11:59pm Eastern time on the date the first (50) applications are received or on October 14, 2019 whichever comes first
This vacancy is advertised under 2 different announcements. Some applicants may not be eligible to be hired under THIS announcement. Please make sure you apply to the announcement that entitles you to consideration. Read the `Who May Apply` section carefully to determine your eligibility. If you are not eligible under this announcement, please see CHICAGO RO-2020-0002, Survey Statistician, GS-1530-7/9/11/12, CENSUS-MP-KML.
This is a Temporary Appointment, initial appointment is not to exceed (NTE) 9/26/2020. This appointment may be extended an additional year at management's discretion.
A probationary period may be required.
Relocation expenses will not be paid.
The work schedule for this position is Mixed Tour. With a Mixed Tour work schedule, an employee may be changed between full-time, part-time and intermittent work schedules to accommodate fluctuating workloads and is subject to a signed agreement.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Basic Entry Requirements for All Grade Levels:
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.
If you do not submit sufficient academic documentation necessary to demonstrate that you meet the eligibility and minimum qualification requirements described in this announcement, your application will be deemed incomplete and you will be ineligible for further consideration for this vacancy.
OR
B. Combination of education and experience - courses 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) collection, computing and analyzing data, and c) applying statistical techniques such as measurements of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance. The quality of the combination of education and experience must be sufficient to demonstrate that the applicant possesses the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform work in the occupation, and is comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study with a major in the appropriate field.
GRADE LEVEL REQUIREMENTS:
In addition to meeting the Basic Entry Requirements above, applicants must have the experience listed below.
Specialized Experience:
GRADE:07: you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-5 grade level in the Federal services. Experience includes: working on a single portion of a statistical survey such as data collection, data processing, data analysis, or data presentation. Assisting with leading and motivating a team. Competing projects under a tight deadline. Evaluating progress and cost reports and finding and implementing ways to eliminate or reduce significant bottlenecks and barriers to production to improve operations and reduce costs and setting and adjusting short-term priorities; preparing schedules for completion of work based on priorities, difficulty of assignments. Writing, analyzing, reviewing, interpreting tabular, graphic and/ or test reports using survey data and presenting data results.
OR
You have one full year of progressively higher-level graduate education.
GRADE 09: you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal services. Experience includes: Working on a single portion of a statistical survey such as data collection, data processing, data analysis, or data presentation. Assisting with leading and motivating a team, interviewing applicants, making selections and proposing performance and conduct related actions. Evaluating progress and cost reports and finding and implementing ways to eliminate or reduce significant bottlenecks and barriers to production to improve operations and reduce costs and setting and adjusting short-term priorities; preparing schedules for completion of work based on priorities, difficulty of assignments. Writing, analyzing, reviewing, interpreting tabular, graphic and/ or test reports using survey data and presenting data results.
OR
You have completed two years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or you have a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree.
GRADE 11: you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal services. Experience includes: Working on a single portion of a statistical survey such as data collection, data processing, data analysis, or data presentation. Writing technical reports analyzing and interpreting survey results. Experience supervising, managing or leading a team, establishing priorities to include planning and assigning work, interviewing applicants making selections and proposing performance and conduct related actions. Communicating with subordinate staff to achieve goals and objectives in the prescribed timeframes. Evaluating progress and cost reports and finding and implementing ways to eliminate or reduce significant bottlenecks and barriers to production to improve operations and reduce costs and setting and adjusting short-term priorities; preparing schedules for completion of work based on priorities, difficulty of assignments. Writing, analyzing, reviewing, interpreting tabular, graphic and/ or test reports using survey data and presenting data results.
OR
You have 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a doctoral degree or you have a Ph.D. degree or equivalent doctoral degree.
GRADE 12: you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal services. Experience includes: Working on a single portion of a statistical survey such as data collection, data processing, data analysis, or data presentation. Writing technical reports analyzing and interpreting survey results. Experience supervising, managing or leading a team, establishing priorities to include planning and assigning work, interviewing applicants making selections and proposing performance and conduct related actions. Communicating with subordinate staff to achieve goals and objectives in the prescribed timeframes. Evaluating progress and cost reports and finding and implementing ways to eliminate or reduce significant bottlenecks and barriers to production to improve operations and reduce costs and setting and adjusting short-term priorities; preparing schedules for completion of work based on priorities, difficulty of assignments. Writing, analyzing, reviewing, interpreting tabular, graphic and/ or test reports using survey data and presenting data results. Evaluating expenditures and progress reports for data collection operations.
Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade 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
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.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your resume, optional cover letter and supporting documentation will be reviewed to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for the position. If you meet the minimum qualifications stated in the job opportunity announcement, we will compare your resume, optional cover letter and supporting documentation to your responses on the scored occupational questionnaire (True/False, Yes/No, Multiple Choice questions) and place you in one of three pre-defined categories. These categories are "gold," "silver," and "bronze." Your resume and/or optional cover letter must support your responses to the scored occupational questionnaire, or your score may be lowered. Candidates placed in the "gold" category will be identified for referral to the hiring manager and may be invited for an interview.
How you will be evaluated for preference eligibility: Within each category, those entitled to veterans' preference will be listed at the top of the pre-defined category for which they are placed.
The scored occupational questionnaire will evaluate you on the following competencies; please do not provide a separate written response:
For more information on category rating, please go to:
http://www.hr.commerce.gov/s/groups/public/@doc/@cfoasa/@ohrm/documents/content/prod01_009474.pdf
We recommend that you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the application process
A complete application consists of the following:
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 in 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 on the Department of Education's website - http://www.ed.gov/international/usnei/us/workrecog.doc 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.
CTAP and ICTAP Eligibles
CTAP and ICTAP candidates will be eligible for selection priority 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 and ICTAP eligibility is on the Office of Personnel Management's Career Transition Resources website at: http://www.opm.gov/ctap
CTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents:
ICTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents:
NOTE: You will not be considered if you fail to provide all required documents.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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.
Your complete application, including required documents, must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing date of this announcement.
To apply online, you must complete and submit an application by accessing the USAJOBS website at http://www.usajobs.gov/. To begin, click the "Apply" button and follow the prompts to register into your USAJOBS account, answer the questions, and submit all required documents. (After registering in your USAJOBS account and clicking "Submit," you will automatically transition to the Department of Commerce's specific site where you will complete your application. You must click "Submit" at the end of the application process to send your application for consideration.)
To return to your saved application, log in to your USAJOBS account at http://www.usajobs.gov/ and click on "Applications." Click on the position title, and then select "Update Application."
If you have problems completing your online application, including problems submitting your supporting documents, please contact the Help Desk by email at mgshelp@monster.com or by phone at 866.656.6831. The help desk is available Monday—Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online; however, if you are unable to apply online, please contact:
Karyn Lindsey at karyn.m.lindsey@census.gov.
You will be notified of your application status through USAJOBS at four points during the hiring process, as applicable. You can check the status of your application by accessing the USAJOBS website at http://usajobs.gov and clicking on "Applications" The status will be visible next to the corresponding position. The four points of notification are:
By submitting your application, you are certifying the accuracy of the information contained in your application. If you make a false statement in any part of your application, you may not be hired; you may be terminated after you begin work; or, you may be fined or jailed. After making a tentative job offer, we will conduct a suitability/security background investigation.
You will be required to submit official documentation prior to appointment. The agency will then verify the information provided on your application (i.e., degree, veterans' preference, disability, etc.).
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/547854600. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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