APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 200 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 200th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.
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As a Statistician, GS-1530-11, you will be responsible for:
• Assisting in identifying problems of data quality and completeness and working to develop statistically sound solutions to statistical problems.
• With supervisory guidance, carrying out analytical projects requiring statistical methods.
• Providing statistical support for both policy development and program management initiatives within the program office and advising other principal offices within the agency on the collection and use of data.
• Assisting in implementing improved methods and techniques for assembling, evaluating, analyzing, and representing data.
• Supporting implementation of changes in analytic practices and procedures. This work supports the work of other principal offices within the agency and supports policy development within the program office.
As a Statistician, GS-1530-12, you will be responsible for:
• Planning analytical projects requiring statistical methods.
• Assembling, evaluating, analyzing, and representing data.
• Preparing quantitative analyses from the Federal Student Aid, National Center for Education Statistics, Census, and other sources to estimate the costs of the federal student aid programs (e.g., Federal Pell Grant, Ford Direct Student Loan), drawing upon a range of statistical software, including SAS and other statistical applications.
• Providing advice about problems of data quality and completeness and working to develop statistically sound solutions to statistical problems.
• Initiating improved methods and techniques for assembling, evaluating, analyzing, and representing data.
• Proposing and assisting in implementing changes in analytic practices and procedures. This work supports the work of other principal offices within the agency and supports policy development within the other program offices.
• Writing a variety of statistical, technical, and general information memos and reports for agency and external audiences, including Executive Office of the President, other federal agencies, states, and professional organizations.
• Presenting findings that are both rigorous and accessible and does so orally and in writing.
Starting at $82,764 Per Year (GS 11-12)