Health Statistician

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/14/2024.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

Specialized Experience Requirements at the GS-14 level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level in Federal Service. To be creditable, your application package must demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Mastery through education and experience of the knowledge, skills, and abilities applicable to the theory, professional concepts, principles, and practices of statistical methods of research, including design and methods of analysis.
• Mastery knowledge, skill, and ability to analyze, develop, and clearly express complex issues both orally and in writing to individuals at all levels of an organization, including those agency or program officials several managerial levels removed from the employee.
• Knowledge to appropriately safeguard the security of research data.
• Detailed mastery knowledge of advanced analytical techniques is needed to perform extensive statistical analysis in order to provide expert advice to investigators and others in the Agency regarding design feasibility.
• Expert in applying quantitative analytical and research techniques to examine questions concerning health, health care delivery, and health outcomes.

Preferred Experience: Experience overseeing and participating in major VA research projects that investigate important and difficult issues in Veteran health and health care delivery.

Physical Requirements: The work is essentially sedentary and is usually accomplished with routine computer equipment and office furniture. Travel may be required to other local offices, VHA facilities, or study sites to participate in site meetings or conferences, conduct data gathering or validation for special projects or to attend professional conferences or meetings.

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; religions; 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.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.