Statistician (Health)
Open 09/28/2026 to 10/07/2026 (might close sooner).
***This job will close when we have received 50 applications which may be sooner than the closing date, 10/07/2026.***
***THIS POSITION IS NOT REMOTE. ONLY ONSITE***
***U.S. Citizenship required***
***Few vacancies in the following location:
- Hyattsville, MD
***YOU MUST APPLY ON USAJOBS.***
Link to USAJOBS ANNOUNCEMENT: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/886378800
***PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE USAJOBS ANNOUNCEMENT.***
***For questions regarding the position or application process, please contact the point of contact listed under “Agency Contact Information” in the USAJOBS vacancy announcement.***
***This is not an entry level position.***
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY
As a(n) Statistician (Health), you will:
- Design, and conduct, and coordinate complex epidemiologic and statistical research studies addressing organizational priorities and the health of the U.S. population, to include developing research questions, designing analytic approaches, and interpreting study findings.
- Evaluate and ensure data quality, reliability, and consistency by developing and implementing quality-control procedures, identifying data limitations and inconsistencies, selecting appropriate methods for quality assessment, and developing and overseeing procedures to modify or improve data.
- Represent the organization and communicate research findings to scientific and professional audiences through presentations at professional meetings and conferences, preparation of papers for publication and presentation, and collaboration with government, nongovernment, and other professional stakeholders.
Qualifications
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Basic Qualifications: You must possess one of the items listed below.
- 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.
In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
Minimum Qualifications: You must have one year specialized experience to perform successfully the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service performing ALL of the following:
- Planning, producing, and documenting analytic data files for surveys or other data collections.
- Planning, conducting, and providing technical guidance on data quality evaluations, including assessing data reliability, limitations, and interpreting evaluation results.
- Providing guidance on designing, and conducting statistical analyses of population, clinical health, or administrative data related to health topics for publication and dissemination.