Minimum Education Requirement:

1. 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

2. 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.

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Specialized Experience: For the GG-1530-14, you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-[XX] in the Federal service. Experience for this position includes Experience supervising a staff responsible for overseeing the budget formulation for field survey operations for ongoing and periodic,
one-time surveys, preparing written documents, monitoring cost, progress, and quality of survey data collection operations, and liaising with the Regional Offices and other divisions. Experience in providing administrative and technical supervision; including leading a team.  Experience working on issues across organizational lines or geographic
areas requiring close and harmonious coordination and interdependence with other administrative, technical, and program management staff.
Experience analyzing and evaluating program data, survey materials, creating reports, and recommendation to higher management a course of action to get/keep the operations on
schedule and within budget.  Experience monitoring sponsor requirements and expectations for quality of results.  Experience researching and documenting technical and/or
administrative information.  Experience conducting detailed research and analysis of program operations.  Experience writing implementation procedures and related training, or
writing and editing technical research reports and presenting findings/results.  Experience with successful oversight and negotiation and collaboration regarding the review, testing,
research, and implementation of all aspects of survey data collection methodology, tools, procedures, and techniques.  Experience in creating agendas to effectively facilitate strong group interactions, sharing of critical information, and sharing lessons learned. 

Education: Education can not be substituted at this 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.