Statistician

Summary This position is based at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System within Medical Research Service. The mission is to develop and test innovative care models and health systems interventions which markedly improve the effectiveness and value of VA health care - while advancing scientific methods for accelerating multi-level adoption - implementation - spread and sustainability of practice-based evidence. Qualifications Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Basic Requirements United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA PolicySpecialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organizationSpecialized experience may include: Conducting statistical analysis within a healthcare setting to include creation of research studies - drafting proposals - and writing reports on findingsinterpreting scientific results - literature reviews - graphs - and proposalsand experience presenting data within a team settingAND You must provide a transcript showing you have met the basic education requirement listed in the 1530 Individual Occupational Series Requirement as described belowIndividual Occupational Requirements:Basic Requirements: 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 engineeringor in the social sciences including demography - history - economics - social welfare - geography - international relations - social or cultural anthropology - health sociology - political science - public administration - psychology - etcCredit 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 processingor Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown in A above - plus appropriate experience or additional educationThe 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 significancePer Office of Personnel Management General Schedule Qualification Policies - federal employees are assumed to have gained experience by performing duties and responsibilities appropriate for their official series and grade level as described in their position descriptionExperience that would not normally be part of the employee's position is creditable when documented by satisfactory evidence (e.g. - a memorandum from the manager - human resources director - or official documentation such as SF-52 - SF-50 documenting an official detail/assignments - or other comparable documentation)The documentation must indicate whether the employee performed the duties full time or - if part-time - the percentage of times the employee performed the additional dutiesTo receive credit for experience in your resume that is not within the official series and grade level of your position - you must provide official documentation of such experience as indicated aboveExperience refers to paid and unpaid experience - including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. - Peace Corps - AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g. - professionalphilanthropicreligionsspiritualcommunitystudentsocial)Volunteer work helps build critical competencies - knowledge - and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employmentYou will receive credit for all qualifying experience - including volunteer experienceExperience refers to paid and unpaid experience - including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. - Peace Corps - AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g. - professionalphilanthropicreligionsspiritualcommunitystudentsocial)Volunteer work helps build critical competencies - knowledge - and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employmentYou will receive credit for all qualifying experience - including volunteer experienceNote: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per weekPart-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activitiesApplicants 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 employmentFor 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/ Physical Requirements: The work is usually performed in an office environment - meeting rooms - or similar settingsTravel between two campuses (Sepulveda and West Los Angeles) may be required and involves the normal risks and discomforts of automobile - bus - or rail transportation. Duties The major duties of the Statistician include - but are not limited to: Participates in a research study and ensures that the research design is properly followedPrepares the research instruments to collect quantitative dataSelects subjects according to criteria for inclusion and obtaining informed consentsCollects data and ensures that instruments are consistently and properly administeredEnsures reliability and validity of the dataResponsible for the adequacy of methods selected and the accuracy of the results obtainedConducts and records interviews with subjects as required by the research designCategorizes and analyzes qualitative data obtained from interviewsDetermines which facts may be validly expressed quantitativelyCarries out project proposal with extreme precisionRecognizes variations in statistical findings which demand prompt action in connection with adjusting or changing proceduresDevelops and modifies methods used in research studiesCompiles data from existing Medical Center recordsabstracts existing documents and categorizes quantitative/qualitative data obtained from documentsDevelops and implements data management activitiesorganizes data entry - produces and edits computer datasets - applies appropriate statistical techniques and performs statistical calculations in analysis and description of the data and interpretation of resultsAdapts established statistical methods to specific problemsWrites reports and presents findings in the most pertinent form such as tables - overheads and slidesDrafts a proposal for a subsequent study based on the baseline data and a thorough review of the professional literatureReviews the quality of data to assure that the data collection instrument is being consistently and properly administered by testing for interviewer reliability and for problems or variations in the dataParticipates in meetings with the principal investigator (PI) and the research assistants to develop the details of public health studiesDevelops data management details - organizes data entry - produce and edit computer datasets - develop and update data screening programs in appropriate programming languagesSelects appropriate statistical techniques and perform complex statistical calculations in preliminary - intermediate and final analysis - in description of the data and in interpretation of resultsRecommends types of further analysis to be doneWork Schedule: Monday-Friday - 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Telework: Not availableVirtual: This is not a virtual positionPosition Description #: 06943T Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized