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STATISTICIAN

Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for DC
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for DC - Agency Wide
Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE)
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Summary

The ORE reports findings to internal and external stakeholders to inform and guide their decisions. With a team of statisticians, analysts, and data management specialists, ORE supports CSOSA's mission and goals by:

  • Conducting rigorous program evaluation;
  • Measuring performance;
  • Applying predictive analytics to guide decision making;
  • Promoting good stewardship of the Agency's data; and
  • Responding to requests for ad hoc analysis from managers and supervisors.

Overview

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Open & closing dates
08/02/2022 to 08/15/2022
Salary
$74,950 to - $97,430 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 11 - 13
Location
1 vacancy in the following location:
District of Columbia, DC
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Travel Required
Not required
Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
13
Job family (Series)
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
Yes
Position sensitivity and risk
Moderate Risk (MR)
Trust determination process
Announcement number
ORE-22-11589446-MPP-DJ
Control number
668968500

This job is open to

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Federal employees - Competitive service

Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales.

Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)

Federal employees whose job, agency or department was eliminated and are eligible for priority over other applicants.

Veterans

Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference

Military spouses

Military spouses of active duty service members or whose spouse is 100 percent disabled or died on active duty.

Individuals with disabilities

Individuals who are eligible under Schedule A.

Peace Corps & AmeriCorps Vista

Individuals who have served at least 2 years with the Peace Corps or 1 year with AmeriCorps VISTA.

Special authorities

Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed in another hiring path.

Clarification from the agency

Status Candidates (Merit Promotion and VEOA Eligibles): Applications will be accepted from current and former competitive service Federal employees, and people eligible under special hiring authorities such as the Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA), Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA), Disabilities Program, etc.

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Duties

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The Office of Research and Evaluation is composed of behavioral and social scientists responsible for conducting
research and program evaluation of community supervision and interventions believed to contribute to the successful supervision of offenders in the community. The office ensures accurate reporting of the Agency's supervision and programming performance measures using data extracted and analyzed from its Supervision and Management Automated Record Tracking case management system. Staff in the office is also responsible for performing predictive analytics, program evaluations, cost-benefit analyses, and a host of other mission-critical analytical support for departments across the agency. The Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) combines empirical evidence, scientific methods, and performance reporting to trace the Agency's progress in the fulfillment of its mission; and, reports findings to internal and external stakeholders to inform and guide their decisions. With a team of statisticians, analysts, and data management specialists. ORE supports CSOSA's mission and goals by conducting rigorous program evaluation; carrying out performance measurement; using predictive analytics and Research to guide decision making; promoting good stewardship of the Agency's data; and responding to requests with accurate information.

This is the GS-1530-13 Statistician full performance level. At the GS-11 grade level, this position is considered developmental. The incumbent performs Statistician work. Conducts analysis and evaluation projects focusing on informing agency practices that promote successful offender performance while on supervision including graduated sanctioning responses, performance in substance abuse treatment, vocational development and employment-skill matching. Supports build and maintenance of the Agency's Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Reporting Portal that stores mission-critical data,
management reports, and performance measures.

Supports the design and specification of data collection and processing, tabulation and visualization protocols, sampling, matching, and estimation procedures and analytic techniques to ensure high quality research products and services;

Trains technical staff regarding methodological, statistical, computational, or visualization techniques and procedures to increase awareness of and appropriate use of available tools and ensure high quality research products and services; Provides support to technical staff planning and conducting program evaluations; serves as first-line reviewer of prospective research designs; and recommends and monitors appropriate methodologies and techniques. Recommends, reviews, and monitors prospective mathematical, statistical, computational, or reporting techniques and procedures; serves as second-line subject matter expert for data collection and mathematical, statistical, computational, or reporting techniques and procedures; documents the evaluation of data sources to determine applicability, usability, and limitations for research, evaluation, and performance measurement and improvement efforts.

Prepares, or directs the preparation of written briefings, memoranda, letters, opinions, transmittals, and recommendations on substantive issues and findings for audiences. Develops and drafts items such as rules and notices. Researches and prepares final background and decision papers for the signature of the agency director, including organizing, analyzing and summarizing relevant reports and publications.

Collects, recovers, assembles manages, manipulates, and synthesized appropriate data to support research, evaluation, and performance measurement and improvement products. Develops research plans that apply valid scientific techniques to support research, evaluation, and performance measurement and improvement products and ensure research answers questions as unambiguously as possible. Performed computational, mathematical, and statistical work to support research, evaluation, and performance measurement and improvement efforts.

Develops and proposes predictive models exploiting patterns in historical and transactional data to predict
trends and behavior patterns to guide and enhance decision making.
Conducts and oversees data mining efforts and develops related research products including detecting
anomalies in database fields, searching and detecting associations among database fields, discovering
groups and structures among database fields, generalizing and classifying data, modeling data to describe
population processes, and summarizing patterns in data to provide compact narrative or visual
representations of data, increase understanding of trends and patterns in data, and aid custodial and treatment
decisions among program and operations decision makers.


Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen or National
  • Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable
  • Background security investigation, drug test, and favorable adjudication
  • May be required to successfully complete a one year probationary period (unless already completed).
  • Time-in-grade requirements must be met within 30 calendar day of the closing date of this announcement
  • This is not a virtual OR remote position; you must live within or be willing to relocate within a commutable distance of the duty location (no exceptions).

Qualifications

GS-11 Qualification Requirements
To minimally qualify for GS-11 position, you must meet all the following requirements (Basic Requirement and Specialized Experience):

Section - A Basic Requirement
This position has a positive education or combination experience requirement. To qualify for this position, you must meet one of the basic requirements described below: Bachelor's 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.

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Combination of education and experience: courses as shown in Section 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. In addition to meeting the basic requirement, qualified applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-09) in the Federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as experience conducting a statistical analysis by collecting and analyzing data in order to discern patterns and trends using quantitative research by applying statistical and mathematical methodologies and techniques. This includes using statistical techniques to experimental design, data analysis, sampling, forecasting, quality control, and operational research for an organization, company, or agency. Assisting in statistical studies and projects, develop study design plans, evaluate progress of the study, and create or collaborate in preparing statistical reports on the results of a statistical analysis study or research project. Assisting in the development of professional papers or reports on statistical studies or surveys. Experience using statistical software packages and computer database tools.

OR - (Substitute for Specialized Experience at the GS-11 grade level)

3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree that is directly related to the position can be substituted to meet the Specialized experience requirement only.

Time-in-Grade: Current or former federal employees who have held a GS position in the preceding 52 weeks, must meet the time in grade requirement. Applicant must have served 52 weeks as a GS-09 or higher grade in Federal Service.


GS-13 Qualification Requirements

Section - A Basic Requirement
To minimally qualify for the GS-13 position, you must meet all the following requirements (Basic Requirement and Specialized Experience):

This position has a positive education or combination experience requirement
To qualify for this position, you must meet one of the basic requirements described below:
Bachelor's 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: courses as shown in Section 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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement, qualified applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-12) in the Federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position.
Specialized experience is defined as experience conducting a statistical analysis by collecting and analyzing data in order to discern patterns and trends using quantitative research by applying statistical and mathematical methodologies and techniques. This includes:

  • Applying advanced statistical techniques to experimental design, data analysis, sampling, forecasting, quality control, and operational research for an organization, company, or agency.

  • Applying data mining, data modeling, and machine learning using various statistical software programs to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured data sets.

  • Conducting statistical studies and projects, develop study design plans, evaluate progress of the study, and create or collaborate in preparing statistical reports on the results of a statistical analysis study or research project.

  • Developing and/or presenting professional papers or reports on statistical studies or surveys.

  • Providing technical expertise to support complex statistical analyses.

  • Working knowledge of statistical principles, theories, techniques, and methods to conduct complex statistical review and analyses projects.

  • Planning and executing a variety of complex projects and develop recommendations requiring technical and administrative judgment.

Education is not substitutable for specialized experience at the GS-13 grade level.

Time-in-Grade: Current or former federal employees who have held a GS position in the preceding 52 weeks, must meet the time in grade requirement. Applicant must have served 52 weeks as a GS-12 or higher grade in Federal Service.

Note about experience
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.

Education


ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
PASS/FAIL COURSES: If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.
GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Additional information

Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA): To be eligible for a VEOA appointment under Merit Promotion procedures, you must be a preference eligible or a Veteran separated after 3 years or more of continuous active service performed under honorable conditions.

If you are an eligible Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) applicant, you may apply for special selection over other applicants for this position. Individuals who have special priority selection rights under the CTAP or ICTAP must be well qualified for the position. To be well qualified, applicants must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and meet the mid-level (scoring between 85 and 89) of the rating criteria for all factors or the established cutoff score. CTAP/ICTAP eligibles must submit one of the following as proof of eligibility for the special selection priority: a separation notice; a "Notice of Personnel Action" (SF-50) documenting separation; an agency certification that you cannot be placed after injury compensation has been terminated; an OPM notification that your disability annuity has been terminated; OR a Military Department or National Guard Bureau notification that you are retired under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) or 8456. Additional information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

This vacancy announcement may be used to fill future vacancies for identical positions within the next year.

Relocation expenses are not authorized.

Bargaining Unit Status: Not Eligible

All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments directly deposited into a financial institution of their choosing.

Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.

You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

CSOSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

CSOSA uses E-Verify, if you are selected for this position, the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-Verify" System. Federal law requires DHS to use the E-Verify System to verify employment eligibility of all new hires, and as a condition of continued employment obligates the new hire to take affirmative steps to resolve any discrepancies identified by the system.

Position is Mission Essential and is not subject to administrative dismissal in emergencies based on inclement weather conditions, or other emergency situations, as appropriate. A Mission Essential employee is required to report for, or remain at, work in emergency situations; dismissal or closure announcements do not apply to him/her unless his/her supervisor instructs otherwise.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Your application will be evaluated according to the extent and quality of experience, education, and training. If you meet the basic qualification requirements, your resume, online questionnaire and the documentation you submitted to support your responses will be evaluated against the knowledge, skills, and abilities and the result of the additional assessments required for this position. The assessments measure the critical competencies that are required to successfully perform the job. This evaluation determines which candidates will be referred to the selecting official for consideration.

Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics):

  • Attention to Detail
  • Data Management
  • Mathematical Reasoning
  • Oral Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Research
  • Statistical Data Analysis
  • Statistical Data Analysis
  • Written Communication

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