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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:
08/02/2022 to 08/15/2022
$74,950 - $97,430 per year
GS 11 - 13
1 vacancy in the following location:
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Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Not required
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Permanent -
Full-time -
Competitive
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ORE-22-11589446-MPP-DJ
668968500
Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.
Current or former competitive service federal employees.
Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed above, but defined in the federal hiring regulations.
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.
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.
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GS-11 Qualification Requirements GS-13 Qualification Requirements Section - A Basic Requirement 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.
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. |
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 |
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.
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):
| You must submit a complete Application Package which includes: -Your responses to the Online Occupational Questionnaire (This is completed automatically during the apply online process).To apply for this position, - Your résumé showing work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment and duties performed. - Other supporting documents: - Cover Letter, optional - College transcript(s), if qualifying based on education - Most recent SF-50, "Notification of Personnel Action" showing you are/were in the competitive service and the highest grade or promotion potential held (if applying as a status candidate with current or former Federal Service) - DD-214, SF-15 Form and VA letter, or certification of expected discharge or release from active duty from Veterans for consideration under Veteran hiring authorities - Noncompetitive appointment authority documentation, if applicable - Career Transition Assistance Program/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program Documentation, if applicable (e.g. Certification of Expected Separation, Reduction-In-Force Separation Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal; SF-50 that documents the RIF separation action; and most recent performance appraisal.) |
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.
To apply for this position, you must complete the online application and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below.
A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration.
- To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application.
- Follow the prompts to select your résumé and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
- After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process.
- You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application.
To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each Application Status means, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/.
- If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternative application which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact at or to obtain an alternative application.
Once you successfully complete the application process, you will receive an acknowledgement e-mail of receipt. Your application package will be reviewed to ensure you meet the basic eligibility and qualifications requirements. A review will be made of your online questionnaire and the documentation you submitted to support your responses. A list of highly qualified applicants will be created and sent to the selecting official, and you will be notified via email if this occurs. The selecting official may choose to conduct interviews, and once the selection is made, you will receive a notification of the decision.
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This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/668968500. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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A FEDERAL CAREER LIKE NO OTHER!!! Are you ready to increase public safety, prevent crimes, reduce recidivism, and support the fair administration of justice in close collaboration with the District of Columbia's community? The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) has an opening for a Statistician to join our dedicated team and gain invaluable experience working in the public interest to support the fair administration of justice.
