In accordance with the Individual Occupational Requirements for this series, https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/statistics-series-1530/, to qualify for this position you must possess the following basic requirement (by the closing date of this announcement):

(a) A conferred Bachelor's degree that includes 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) A combination of education and experience, which when combined, equals 100% of the qualification requirements. Education must include all courses as shown in option A, above, and appropriate experience should include 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 the above requirement, per OPM's qualification standards for professional and scientific positions, https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards, to qualify for this position you must also possess one of the following (by the closing date of the announcement):

a) Qualifying at the GS-12 Grade Level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-11 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Education cannot be substituted for specialized experience.

Examples of Specialized Experience are:

• Recommending strategic operational improvements to enable an organizations sales growth while maximizing available resources.
• Developing strategies to increase customer transactions while meeting unit costs reductions.
• Analyzing large data sets, assisting in developing custom models and interpreting data.
• Executing survey or experimental design, sampling techniques, and collection and tabulation of data.
• Recognizing indicators and subtle changes in markets that might influence an organization's business.

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b) Qualifying at the GS-13 Grade Level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-12 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Education cannot be substituted for specialized experience.

Examples of Specialized Experience are:

• Supporting strategic plans by creating, developing, and recommending strategic operational improvements to enable an organizations sales growth while maximizing available resources.
• Developing strategies to achieve the long-range goals and objectives of enhancing customer sales/savings, increasing customer transactions, and simultaneously meeting unit costs reductions.
• Supporting/leading various projects that deliver future operational strategies across an organization.
• Building, organizing and analyzing large data sets from multiple data sources as well as interpreting data and developing custom models.
• Researching new trends in an industry.
• Planning and executing of study phases: survey or experimental design, sampling techniques, collection and tabulation of data, analysis of findings in a variety of forms, and reporting of results.
• Examining the marketplace for indicators and subtle changes that might influence an organization's business.

Volunteer Experience: Your Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service program (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.

For qualifications determinations your resume must contain your name, a description of your duties, the number of hours worked per week and the beginning and ending dates (month/year) for each position. Resumes that do not contain this information will be marked as insufficient and applicants may not receive consideration for this position.

Time after competitive appointment: Candidates applying under merit promotion must have completed three months of civilian service after a competitive appointment by the closing date of the announcement. (5 CFR 330.501)

Time-in-Grade: Current or previous federal employees must have held a permanent appointment in the competitive or excepted service for a minimum of 52 weeks at the GS-12 (or equivalent) level to be eligible for the position by the closing date of the announcement.

All current DeCA & Federal employees regardless of your location or human resources service provider must submit a copy of a recent SF50 showing your current position title, pay plan-series-grade, tenure and position occupied.

Documents to verify time-in-grade.

Current DeCA & Federal employees receiving human resources services from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA): You do not need to submit documents to verify you meet time-in-grade requirements UNLESS the documents are not in your eOPF. It is your responsibility to ensure the required supporting documents are in your eOPF before you complete the application process. We will review your eOPF to verify education (if you are using it to qualify), time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment. If these documents are not in your eOPF, you must submit them with your application or risk automatic disqualification. We do not use eOPF to determine or verify your qualifications. Qualifications information must be in your resume.

Current DeCA & Federal employees serving overseas and former federal employees: You must submit sufficient documents (i.e., SF 50s) to verify you meet time-in-grade requirements. Some SF 50s dated within the last 52 weeks do not demonstrate you meet time-in-grade on their own (e.g., Gen Adj from the current year). You may need to submit two (2) or more SF 50s to show you meet this requirement. Examples of appropriate SF 50s include Promotion, Reg WRI, and SF 50s effective more than 52 weeks ago. If you are applying for a higher grade than you currently hold you must show you held the next lower grade for at least 52 weeks.

All current Department of Defense (DoD) employees can access MyBiz and/or eOPF to obtain copies of their SF 50s.

Overseas Employees: DeCA employees working overseas MUST submit copies of your current SF-50, showing your current tenure, grade and salary.