Statistician

This Statistician position is with Risk Management Agency (Department of Agriculture) in Phoenix, AZ. The incumbent will serve as a Statistician in the Risk Management Agency (RMA), Deputy Administrator for Product Management, Actuarial, Filing and Prices Division, Actuarial Branch. As such, the employee is responsible for conducting complex statistical analysis, developing and validating actuarial rates and yield models, assessing program impacts, and contributing to the design and evaluation of crop insurance products and serves as a technical authority on statistical methodologies. Key duties: • Researches, plans, and implements projects that represent an important segment of Agency operating programs. • Initiates, applies, and plans developmental studies, providing recommendations for advancing programs and/or methods. • Verifies the accuracy and validity of the data and underlying assumptions. • Analyzes data collected to identify areas of comparable productivity and risk. Qualifications: To be eligible, applicants must meet one of the following requirements. Completed all requirements for an associates, bachelors, masters, professional, doctorate, vocational, or technical degree or certificate from a qualifying educational institution within the previous two (2) years. OR Individuals who, due to military service obligation, were precluded from applying to the Recent Graduates Program during any portion of the 2-year eligibility period described above shall have a full 2-year period of eligibility upon release or discharge from active duty. This eligibility period cannot extend more than 6 years from the date on which the requirements for the academic course of study were met. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. If education is required or being used to qualify, you must submit a copy of your transcripts. Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements within 7 months of the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below Basic Requirement: GS-1530: 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 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, you must also possess experience and/or directly related education listed below. Specialized Experience Requirement For the GS-09 grade level: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in federal service or comparable experience not gained through federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: experience that could have been gained by frequently producing or assisting on annual or monthly surveys, research reports, or other similar types of agricultural or statistical work products. This experience may include the development of a study; the collection, compilation, and analysis of data from primary or secondary sources following detailed and exact procedures and regulations; or drafting preliminary interpretive reports, or portions of such reports. OR Education at the GS-09 grade level: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or at least 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: mathematics, statistics, economics, engineering, actuarial science, or other technical degree. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience as listed above. 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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer 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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. 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