Summary

This position is located in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). OJP provides federal leadership, funding, and other critical resources to directly support law enforcement, combat violent crime, protect American children, provide services to American crime victims, and address public safety challenges, including human trafficking and the opioid crisis.

Duties

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The duties and responsibilities for a GS- 1530-13/14 generally include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Designs and manages one or more complex statistical data series or major components of a large-scale data series, including program development, project management, data collection and data
• analysis.
• Conducts statistical analysis and applies this to a wide variety of situations to solve novel problems related to the research area supported.
• Analyzes a variety of data sets using appropriate statistical software such as SPSS, SAS, Stata and R; applies statistical software to develop program code.
• Develops new statistical methods and/or modifies existing data analysis methods.
• Performs statistical analyses of agency program data.
• Develops forecasting models; formulates statistical projections and trends for agency programs.
• Advises and assists on format design, data monitoring, and related aspects of statistical methods and study design.
• Presents statistical findings to a wide range of audiences including professional associations, agency representatives, and criminal justice researchers.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• You will be required to complete a pre-employment security investigation and background check which includes a drug screening.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born on, or after, December 31, 1959. Those not registered should have an approved exemption on file. Visit www.sss.gov.
• You must meet all eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement and continue to meet these requirements throughout the hiring process. Offers can be rescinded if requirements are not met.
• Security Requirements: Non-Sensitive/Moderate Risk
• A USA Hire assessment is required. An email will be sent with additional information after you submit your application. You will have 48 hours from the closing date of this announcement to complete the assessment.
• 1-year probationary period may be required.

Qualifications

To qualify for the position of Statistician (Social Science), at GS-1530-13/14, you must meet the qualification requirements listed below.

Basic Entry Requirements:

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.

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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.

GS-13: Specialized Experience:

Applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level. Specialized experience is experience which is in or related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

Examples of specialized experience include:

• Planning data collection activities and preparing guidelines, standards, training manuals, and quality assurance plans related to the collection and analysis of statistical data.
• Developing study methodologies to be followed, including study specifications, survey and data collection instruments, and approaches to be used.
• Providing policy and procedural consultation, advice, and guidance on complex technical issues in a specialized statistical area related to a specialized statistical study or data collection.
• Coding survey or administrative data collection instruments in a survey design software platform.
• Cleaning, weighting, and evaluating the quality of data.
• Presenting statistical findings to a wide range of audiences; authoring original and creative reports which require minimal edits and little or no substantive changes.

GS-14: Specialized Experience:

Applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level. Specialized experience is experience which is in or related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

Examples of specialized experience include:

• Leading the development of significant collaborative studies; directing the technical and organizational components of statistical programs.
• Producing statistical reports; reviewing statistical publications for accuracy and identifying areas where complementary datasets can be used to expand analysis and understanding.
• Performing critical reviews of scientific or technical procedures, protocols, methodologies, inspections, and investigations for scientific and regulatory policy implications.
• Reviewing mathematical models, sample surveys, statistical measurements, reports, and documentation to evaluate all potential impacts and prepare responses to requests.
• Experience leading or reviewing data cleaning, weighting, and non-response bias analysis adjustments.

Online Assessment:

This position requires an online assessment. After you submit this application, you will receive an e-mail informing you that a USA Hire assessment is required of you. You will have 48 hours from the closing date of this announcement 07/21/2026 to complete the assessment as this assessment is part of your application.

You MUST meet all qualification requirements, including time-in-grade, by the closing date of this announcement, 07/21/2026.

Your resume must support your responses to the online questionnaire and the qualification requirements. Failure to do so may result in an ineligible rating.See the Required Documents section for important notes about what must be included in your resume.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement. Please see the Qualifications section for more information.

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone. No substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Education must be reviewed and certified by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, in order for it to be creditable towards your qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from accredited institution.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see the Department of Education website. If you are qualifying on foreign education, you MUST submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.

Additional information

• Recruitment incentives may not be authorized.
• OJP offers opportunities for flexible work schedules.
• Additional selections may be made from this announcement.
• Probationary Period: You may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period to evaluate your fitness and whether continued employment advances the public interest. We may consider: 1) performance and conduct; 2) agency needs and interests; 3) advancement of agency/Government organizational goals; and 4) Federal service efficiency. Upon completion, employment terminates unless you receive written certification that your continued employment advances the public interest.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.

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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.