Summary This position is locaited in the Headquaters (HQ), Defense Commisary Agency (DeCA), Policy Directorate, Business Analytics Division Responsibilities This a developmental position. Work assignments are progressively complex and intended to broaden your skills and provide you with practical experience to prepare you to perform at the target grade level. At the target grade level, the major duties are: Function as a Statistician in the Business Analytics Division, a future-focused, data-driven department chartered with improving all aspects of sales, supply chain and multi-channel initiatives by leveraging big data. Primarily responsible for analytical modeling, simulation and optimization projects to discover insights and identify opportunities through the use of statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization technique. Develop prototype solutions, mathematical models, algorithms and robust analytics to support analytic insights and visualization of complex data sets. Plan and implement inter-agency support agreements (ISA), memorandum of agreement (MOA), memorandum of understand (MOU)and other contractual agreements necessary to achieve the mission, which could require gaining approval from other government agencies. Create the necessary methodology to project results accurately at each organizational level, modifying the process as needed to account for unique internal operational conditions, major demographic changes, and significant shifts in the competitive marketplace. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications In accordance with the Individual Occupational Requirements for this series, https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/statistics-series-1530/, to qualify for this position you must possess the following basic requirement (by the closing date of this announcement): (a) A conferred Bachelor's degree that includes 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) A combination of education and experience, which when combined, equals 100% of the qualification requirements. Education must include all courses as shown in option A, above, and appropriate experience should include 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 the above requirement, per OPM's qualification standards for professional and scientific positions, https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards, to qualify for this position you must also possess one of the following (by the closing date of the announcement): a) Qualifying at the GS-12 Grade Level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-11 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Education cannot be substituted for specialized experience. Examples of Specialized Experience are: Recommending strategic operational improvements to enable an organizations sales growth while maximizing available resources. Developing strategies to increase customer transactions while meeting unit costs reductions. Analyzing large data sets, assisting in developing custom models and interpreting data. Executing survey or experimental design, sampling techniques, and collection and tabulation of data. Recognizing indicators and subtle changes in markets that might influence an organization's business. OR b) Qualifying at the GS-13 Grade Level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-12 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector. Education cannot be substituted for specialized experience. Examples of Specialized Experience are: Supporting strategic plans by creating, developing, and recommending strategic operational improvements to enable an organizations sales growth while maximizing available resources. Developing strategies to achieve the long-range goals and objectives of enhancing customer sales/savings, increasing customer transactions, and simultaneously meeting unit costs reductions. Supporting/leading various projects that deliver future operational strategies across an organization. Building, organizing and analyzing large data sets from multiple data sources as well as interpreting data and developing custom models. Researching new trends in an industry. Planning and executing of study phases: survey or experimental design, sampling techniques, collection and tabulation of data, analysis of findings in a variety of forms, and reporting of results. Examining the marketplace for indicators and subtle changes that might influence an organization's business. Volunteer Experience: Your Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; 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. For qualifications determinations your resume must contain your name, a description of your duties, the number of hours worked per week and the beginning and ending dates (month/year) for each position. Resumes that do not contain this information will be marked as insufficient and applicants may not receive consideration for this position. Education Your education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See https://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ for more information. Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position. We accept unofficial transcripts for the application process, as long as they contain your name, the name of the school, the date and degree awarded, and the list of classes and credits earned. Transcripts must be received by this office no later than 11:59 PM EST on the closing date in order to be considered. If selected, an official transcript MUST be received before an Entrance of Duty date is set. Additional Information REGARDING INTERVIEWS: Interviews may be required for this position. Accommodations may be made to conduct telephonic interviews to preclude travel hardships for applicants. Re-employed Annuitant: A former Federal employee who has retired under either the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) is an Annuitant. An annuitant cannot be hired (i.e. re-employed) unless the vacant position meets the criteria in the Department of Defense (DOD) policy on employment of annuitants issued December 10, 2008. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/1400.25-V300.pdf. Re-employed Annuitant: This position does not meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. Other Notes: Deliberate attempts to falsify your application information, such as copying portions of this job announcement into your resume, may result in you being removed from consideration for this position. Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement upon its closing. Applicants selected from this announcement may be required to serve a Two Year probationary period. Position is being filled at the GS-12 or GS-13 level If selected at a grade below the target grade of the position, you may be non-competitively promoted to the next higher grade when all statutory and regulatory requirements have been met, performance is satisfactory, and when recommended by the supervisor. Promotion is not guaranteed. 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