Statistician

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. You may qualify based on your experience and education as described below: Basic Requirements: Applicants must meet the basic requirement for this position. To meet the basic requirement for Statistician GS-13 and above positions, applicants must have: 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 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. AND Specialized Experience: In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, you must also meet the specialized experience requirement. Specialized experience for the GS-13 grade level is defined as one year of experience at the GS-12 level, or equivalent that is directly related to the position and which has equipped the candidate with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Examples of specialized experience include but are not limited to: 1) Assessing and improving program effectiveness by using quantitative and qualitative methods for complex management processes and data systems. 2) Applying a wide range of advanced Statistical theory, principles, concepts, methods, techniques, and practices (such as linear and nonlinear modeling, statistical tests, clustering, et cetera). 3) Skillfully employing methods of scientific inquiry and quantitative techniques, setting up a null hypothesis and testing the hypothesis. 4) Designing, constructing, and executing complex algorithms to solve complicated problems pertaining to a wide variety of characteristics of the VHA healthcare system. 4) Sampling, statistical design and analysis, data modeling, network analysis and other operations research analytical techniques (logistic and multiple linear regression), statistical estimation and inference. There is no educational substitution for the GS-13 level.
The Statistician provides statistical and analytical expertise to VHA leaders and field managers as a member of the Office of Productivity, Efficiency, and Staffing (OPES), within the Analytics and Performance Integration (API) division of the Office of Quality and Patient Safety (QPS). OPES designs, develops, and maintains national models and studies related to the delivery of health care for both clinical and administrative functions.