Statistician (Health)
As a Statistician (Health) you will:
Serve as the senior science advisor to the Division Director and Deputy Director. Oversee the initiation, conduct and monitoring of Division research projects and maintains liaison with external researchers and organizations engaged in vital statistics research. Provide testimony at OMB and Congressional hearings based on expertise relating to Division and Center research initiatives. Represent the Center and the Division at meetings with other federal agencies, State and local agencies, public health organizations, business and labor entities. Review all reports, articles or monographs completed as part of the research and programs of the Division to ensure that documents are of a high technical caliber, represent important additions to the knowledge base of vital statistics research, and command national and international attention in the public health and health services field. Monitor legislative and regulatory changes made by state and local jurisdictions governing the release of vital statistics data and ensures that such changes are reflected in NCHS policies and processes. Plan, develop, implement and monitor policies and procedures for access to and release of micro-data, compressed data files, and web-based query systems based on vital statistics data under the terms of the National Vital Statistics Cooperative Agreement developed with the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) and the states. Work closely with NAPHSIS, the states and local jurisdictions to collaborate on issues critical to improving data quality and developing criteria and performance measures for the transmission and release of vital statistics data. Basic
Qualifications:
A 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 A 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. Minimum
Qualifications:
Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-14 in the Federal service as defined in the next paragraph. Specialized experience is experience which is directly related to the position which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) to successfully perform the duties of the position to include conducting scientific studies and research in a wide range of health services (i.e. public health, epidemiology, medical informatics and/or a related field); and evaluating public policies and procedures related to vital statistics.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Serve as the senior science advisor to the Division Director and Deputy Director. Oversee the initiation, conduct and monitoring of Division research projects and maintains liaison with external researchers and organizations engaged in vital statistics research. Provide testimony at OMB and Congressional hearings based on expertise relating to Division and Center research initiatives. Represent the Center and the Division at meetings with other federal agencies, State and local agencies, public health organizations, business and labor entities. Review all reports, articles or monographs completed as part of the research and programs of the Division to ensure that documents are of a high technical caliber, represent important additions to the knowledge base of vital statistics research, and command national and international attention in the public health and health services field. Monitor legislative and regulatory changes made by state and local jurisdictions governing the release of vital statistics data and ensures that such changes are reflected in NCHS policies and processes. Plan, develop, implement and monitor policies and procedures for access to and release of micro-data, compressed data files, and web-based query systems based on vital statistics data under the terms of the National Vital Statistics Cooperative Agreement developed with the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) and the states. Work closely with NAPHSIS, the states and local jurisdictions to collaborate on issues critical to improving data quality and developing criteria and performance measures for the transmission and release of vital statistics data. Basic
Qualifications:
A 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 A 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. Minimum
Qualifications:
Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-14 in the Federal service as defined in the next paragraph. Specialized experience is experience which is directly related to the position which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) to successfully perform the duties of the position to include conducting scientific studies and research in a wide range of health services (i.e. public health, epidemiology, medical informatics and/or a related field); and evaluating public policies and procedures related to vital statistics.
- Department:
1530 Statistics - Salary Range:
$142,701 to $170,800 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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