Statistician (Public Flyer - Direct Hire)

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Summary

Do you have a passion for public service? The United States Secret Service is looking for you! The USSS is a premier law enforcement organization with two (2) critical national security missions: protect our nation's leaders and to conduct criminal investigations. Our team members continue a tradition of excellence whether investigating financial crimes or protecting national and visiting foreign leaders. In the USSS we serve the country with duty, loyalty, justice, integrity, and courage.

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Responsibilities

The Office of Protect Operations (OPO), is responsible for overseeing 11 operational divisions in planning, directing, coordinating and implementing protective policies, programs and operations of the USSS. The OPO protects our nation's leaders and other designated individuals, designated facilities, and events of national significance by assessing threats and vulnerabilities and executing operational security plans. Duties may include:

• Serves as technical expert and provides technical guidance on all phases of statistical analysis, modeling, and simulation for directorate operational and business programs. Coordinates the work of other statisticians and analysts within and external to the directorate. Liaises with senior officials and technical advisors to ensure proper data collection and assessment.
• Plans, formulates, organizes, guides and conducts complex and in-depth assessments of operational and business programs. Determines appropriate methodologies and measures of effectiveness, and formulates and guides analyses based on defined constraints and risks to program success. Resolves all statistical problems occurring in the collection and summarization process.
• Advises management and provides expert, statistically-derived advice on risks impacting the agency's protective mission and business operations. Presents recommendations orally and in writing to senior officials and top-level decision makers to gain acceptance of recommendations. Prepares and presents technical briefs, white papers and executive summaries advising high-level managers of advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to resolve or manage issues identified through complex analysis.
• Plans, formulates, organizes, guides and conducts complex analytical studies, such as simulations, using modeling techniques designed to increase process efficiencies; may coordinate the work of other statisticians and analysts.
• Develops written reports targeted to different audiences, including professional statisticians, agency leadership, the law enforcement community, and the general public. Reports present the results and conclusions of investigations, models, concepts and results of mathematical modeling projects and simulations.

Travel Required

Not required

Supervisory status

No

Promotion Potential

13

• Job family (Series)

1530 Statistics

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Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Tier 5 Top Secret Clearance
• Pass a drug test (urinalysis)
• Certify you have registered with the Selective Service System if you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, or certify you are exempt from having to do so under Selective Service law.

Qualifications

OPMs Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) is defined as:

Basic Requirements:

• 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 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

Accrediting institutions recognized by the United States https://www.ed.gov/

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You must demonstrate at least one (1) year of the defined specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level and meet the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR). See link below:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/statistics-series-1530/

Specialized experience is defined as:

• GS-13: Providing technical advice on statistical analysis, maintaining liaison with senior officials and technical advisors to ensure proper data collection and assessment, planning, formulating and guiding complex and in-depth risk assessment for operational programs, resolving all statistical problems occurring in the collection and summarization process, presenting recommendations orally and in writing to senior officials and top level decision-makers, developing new and unique methods of analysis including modification of existing models, adapting and including theoretical considerations as necessary.

Education

See Qualifications section