Supervisory Economist/Supervisory Statistician (Economics)

You must meet the Basic Requirements and the Specialized Experience to qualify for the Supervisory Economist/Supervisory Statistician (Economics) position, as described below. Basic Requirement Economist, 0110: A) Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus. OR B) Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Statistician, 1530: 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 B) 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. Specialized Experience In addition to the basic requirements above, applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-13, in the federal service. This one year of specialized must be in or related to the field of economics or statistics and must have equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, judgment, and technical competence in order to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. Applicants must meet at least two of the specialized experience items below: Planning and directing projects or other tasks to accomplish organizational goals; Providing technical expertise, advice, and consultation to meet organizational goals; Reviewing and validating data to ensure accuracy, methodological soundness, and consistency with program goals.

Duties include, but are not limited to the following: Managing a major statistical program segment or survey that provides significant products or services for the public Preparing reports, publications, and, if applicable, news releases that present program statistics and results to the public Presenting program statistics and results at public meetings and conferences and answering questions from the news media and public about news releases Monitoring work processes and quality control procedures so that data and other products are developed efficiently, in the appropriate time frame, and according to schedule Proposing and managing process enhancements to improve efficiency