Mathematical Statistician

Mhemical Stistician Department of Commerce U.S. Census Bureau Multiple Directores Summary This vacancy is being filled via the Direct-Hire Authority (DHA) for a Mhemical Stistician position loced the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland . The Census Bureau is accessible from the Metro Rail Green Line

• Suitland Stion. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Mhemical Stistician , 1529
• 11/12 , FPL GG-12 positions within the Census Bureau in the same geographical locion with the same qualificions and specialized experience.

Learn more about this agency Summary This vacancy is being filled via the Direct-Hire Authority (DHA) for a Mhemical Stistician position loced the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland . The Census Bureau is accessible from the Metro Rail Green Line

• Suitland Stion. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Mhemical Stistician , 1529
• 11/12 , FPL GG-12 positions within the Census Bureau in the same geographical locion with the same qualificions and specialized experience. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/06/2026 to 05/19/2026 Salary $85,447
• $133,142 per year Pay scale & grade GG 11
• 12 Locion Few vacancies in the following locion: Suitland, MD Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Term
• 4 years Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 12 Job family (Series) 1529 Mhemical Stistics Supervisory stus No Security clearance Other Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk Trust determinion process Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus Yes Announcement number 26-BOC-12952968-DHA-BTE Control number 867988000 This job is open to Help The public U.

S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency All qualified United Stes citizens. Duties Help Researches, plans, and implements assigned projects requiring the applicion of mhemical stistical theory. Plans and conducts project-reled studies, which includes preparing specificions and developing new or modifying existing procedures. Develops and applies measures/models to resolve problems. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Applicants must meet all qualificion requirements by the closing de of this announcement. U.S. Citizen. Suitable for Federal employment. Registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov). This is a term appointment not to exceed 4 years. At management discretion, this appointment may be extended up to a maximum of 10 years from the original appointment de. This is a

BARGAINING

unit position. This position may be covered by one or more of the following bargaining units: American Federion of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2782(HQ) or AFGE Local 1438(DN). If you have specific questions, please contact the HR Specialist. A one-year probionary period may be required. Qualificions

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Educion Requirement:

1. A Degree th included 24 semester hours of mhemics and stistics, of which least 12 semester hours were in the mhemics and 6 semester hours were in stistics. Courses acceptable toward meeting the mhemics course requirement must have included least four of the following: differential calculus, integral calculus, advanced calculus, theory of equions, vector analysis, advanced algebra, linear algebra, mhemical logic, differential equions, or any other advanced course in mhemics for which one of these was a prerequisite. Courses in mhemical stistics or probability theory with a prerequisite of elementary calculus or more advanced courses accepted toward meeting the mhemics requirements, with the provision th the same course cannot be counted toward both the mhemics and the stistics requirement. OR 2. A combinion of educion and experience

• courses as shown above, plus approprie experience or additional educion.

The experience should have included a full range of professional stistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing stistical da, and (c) applying known stistical techniques to da such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlion, analysis of variance, and tests of significance.

AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Specialized Experience:

For the GG-11 , you must have one year of experience a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the

GS/GG-09

in the Federal service.

Experience for this position includes:

building stistical or machine learning models; analyzing da; producing reports on stistical results; AND conducting file verificions or instrument testing.

OR Educion:

3 years of progressively higher-level gradue educion leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.

OR Combinion of Educion and Experience:

A combinion of specialized experience (less than one year of experience as described above) and directly reled gradue educion (beyond 2 years of gradue educion), th when combined equals 100% of the qualificion requirement.

Note:

Only gradue educion in excess of two years (generally 36 semester hours) may be used in this calculion.

Specialized Experience:

For the GG-12 , you must have one year of experience a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the

GS/GG-11

in the Federal service.

Experience for this position includes:

Building stistical or machine learning models; analyzing da; communicing findings to technical and non-technical audiences; producing reports on stistical results; conducting file verificions or instrument testing; AND writing code for cloud-based environments.

OR Educion:

Educion cannot be substituted for experience the

GS/GG-12

grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer. Additional informion This announcement is issued under the Direct-Hire authority. Consistent with 5 U.S.0 3304(a)(3) and OPM regulions (5 CFR 337 Subpart B) on

Direct-Hire:

All candides who meet all the qualificion and other eligibility requirements may be referred for considerion. Competitive examining rules providing for ring and ranking and veterans' preference do not apply. Additionally, Individuals who have received a Voluntary Separion Incentive Payment, otherwise known as a buyout, must repay th incentive if they are reemployed by the Federal Government within five years of separion. Reasonable Accommodion (RA)

Requests:

If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online applicion. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudicion decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments . The Department of Commerce also provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the Human Resources Office. The decision on granting reasonable accommodion on a case-by-case basis. TTY users can contact the Human Resources Office via the Federal Relay Service, 1-800-877-8339. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help 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 th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . 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 informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. You evalued based on how well you meet the qualificions listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g., resume , supporting documents), your responses on the applicion questionnaire. This position is announced under a government-wide DHA for Mhemical Stistician positions in the 1529 series. Under this DHA, applicants are required to meet minimum qualificion requirements the grade level(s) of interest. Veteran's Preference, Schedule A, and other methods of considerion

DO NOT APPLY

under DHA regulions. Appointments made under this authority processed as new appointments to the Civil Service. Current Civil Service employees would, therefore, be given new appointments to the Civil Service. Current Federal employees may be required to serve a new probionary period (5 CFR 315.802(b). You assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Attention to

Detail Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork Online Assessment:

Applicants must complete the online USA Hire Competency Based Assessments measuring critical general competencies required to perform the job. Examples used in the assessment may include general situions not directly reled to this position. Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion.

CTAP and ICTAP candides:

CTAP and ICTAP candides eligible for selection priority if it is determined th they have exceeded the minimum qualificions for the position by taining least a ring of 85 out of 100. Informion about CTAP and ICTAP eligibility is on the Office of Personnel Management's Career Transition Resources website : https://www.opm.gov/policy-da-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ctap_guideline.pdf . Do NOT include the following types of informion in your applicion if included on your resume you will not be considered for this position: Social Security Number (SSN) De of Birth (DOB) Photos of yourself Personal informion: such as age, gender, religious affiliion, etc. We recommend th you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the applicion process. You may preview the questionnaire for this vacancy: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12952968 . Benefits Help 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 th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . 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 informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help Your applicion package should include the following documents:

Resume:

Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you deemed disqualified and removed from considerion. Your resume must include your educional and relevant work experience for the position for which you are applying to include the title and des (mm/yy) of employment along with the number of hours worked per week. If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion may be marked as incomplete, and you will not receive considerion for this position. Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) and Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) documention , if applicable: CTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents: A copy of your RIF separion notice; notice of proposed removal for declining a directed geographic relocion outside of the local commuting area; a Certifice of Expected Separion (CES); or certificion th you are in a surplus organizion or occupion (this could be a position abolishment letter, a notice of eligibility for discontinued service retirement, or similar notice). A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action" noting current position, grade/band level, and duty locion; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your bureau/opering unit th shows your current promotion potential. ICTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents: A copy of your RIF separion notice; notice of proposed removal for declining a directed geographic relocion outside of the local commuting area; notice of disability annuity terminion; certificion from your former agency th it cannot place you after your recovery from a work-reled compensable injury; or certificion from the Nional Guard Bureau or Military Department th you are eligible for disability retirement. A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action", documenting your RIF separion, noting your position, grade/band level, and duty locion, and/or Agency certificion of inability to place you through RPL, etc.; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your agency th shows your current promotion potential.

Educion Documention:

If this position requires proof of higher educion, or you are substituting educion for experience, you must submit an unofficial transcript or a list of courses th includes the following informion: name of accredited institution, grades earned, completion des, and quarter and semester hours earned. This also includes Census Bureau employees. Educion completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. Please refer to OPM's Qualificion Policy for more informion. You are not required to submit official documents this time; copies are sufficient. Special Instructions for

Foreign Educion:

Qualifying educion from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evalued in terms of equivalency to th acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educed in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited prive organizion for an equivalency evaluion of course work and degree. You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluion with a course-by-course listing along with your applicion. Failure to provide such documention when requested will result in lost considerion. For further informion on the evaluion of foreign educion, refer to the U.S. Department of Educion's web site Academic and Professional Mobility | Internional Affairs Office (ed.gov) .

NOTE:

You will not be considered if you fail to provide all required documents. Resume Transcript If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Your complete applicion, including required documents, must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on 05/19/2026. The applicion process is as follows: To apply on-line, you must complete and submit an applicion by accessing the USAJOBS website https://www.usajobs.gov . To begin, click Apply Online to cree a

USA JOBS

account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your

USA JOBS

resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about two (2) hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: USAJOBS Help Center | How to see your applicion and job stus . Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online; however, if you are unable to apply online, please email the agency contact. Agency contact informion Bradley Ellerman Phone 301-763-3780 bradley.t.ellerman@census.gov Address Human Resources Division 4600 Silver Hill Road Washington, DC 20233 US Next steps You notified of your applicion stus through USAJOBS four points during the hiring process, as applicable. You can check the stus of your applicion by accessing the USAJOBS website https://usajobs.gov and clicking on "Applicions." The stus visible next to the corresponding positions. The four points of notificion are: Applicion Received or Applicion Incomplete; Minimum Qualificion Requirement Met or Minimum Qualificion Requirement Not Met; Referred or Not Referred; and Selected or Not Selected. By submitting your applicion, you are certifying the accuracy of the informion contained in your applicion. If you make a false stement in any part of your applicion, you may not be hired; you may be termined after you begin work; or you may be fined or jailed. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct a suitability/security background investigion. You required to submit official documention prior to appointment. The agency will then verify the informion provided on your applicion (i.e., degree, veterans' preference, disability, etc.). Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help Your applicion package should include the following documents:

Resume:

Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you deemed disqualified and removed from considerion. Your resume must include your educional and relevant work experience for the position for which you are applying to include the title and des (mm/yy) of employment along with the number of hours worked per week. If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion may be marked as incomplete, and you will not receive considerion for this position. Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) and Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) documention , if applicable: CTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents: A copy of your RIF separion notice; notice of proposed removal for declining a directed geographic relocion outside of the local commuting area; a Certifice of Expected Separion (CES); or certificion th you are in a surplus organizion or occupion (this could be a position abolishment letter, a notice of eligibility for discontinued service retirement, or similar notice). A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action" noting current position, grade/band level, and duty locion; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your bureau/opering unit th shows your current promotion potential. ICTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents: A copy of your RIF separion notice; notice of proposed removal for declining a directed geographic relocion outside of the local commuting area; notice of disability annuity terminion; certificion from your former agency th it cannot place you after your recovery from a work-reled compensable injury; or certificion from the Nional Guard Bureau or Military Department th you are eligible for disability retirement. A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action", documenting your RIF separion, noting your position, grade/band level, and duty locion, and/or Agency certificion of inability to place you through RPL, etc.; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your agency th shows your current promotion potential.

Educion Documention:

If this position requires proof of higher educion, or you are substituting educion for experience, you must submit an unofficial transcript or a list of courses th includes the following informion: name of accredited institution, grades earned, completion des, and quarter and semester hours earned. This also includes Census Bureau employees. Educion completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. Please refer to OPM's Qualificion Policy for more informion. You are not required to submit official documents this time; copies are sufficient. Special Instructions for

Foreign Educion:

Qualifying educion from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evalued in terms of equivalency to th acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educed in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited prive organizion for an equivalency evaluion of course work and degree. You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluion with a course-by-course listing along with your applicion. Failure to provide such documention when requested will result in lost considerion. For further informion on the evaluion of foreign educion, refer to the U.S. Department of Educion's web site Academic and Professional Mobility | Internional Affairs Office (ed.gov) .

NOTE:

You will not be considered if you fail to provide all required documents. Resume Transcript If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Your complete applicion, including required documents, must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on 05/19/2026. The applicion process is as follows: To apply on-line, you must complete and submit an applicion by accessing the USAJOBS website https://www.usajobs.gov . To begin, click Apply Online to cree a

USA JOBS

account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your

USA JOBS

resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about two (2) hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: USAJOBS Help Center | How to see your applicion and job stus . Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online; however, if you are unable to apply online, please email the agency contact. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Bradley Ellerman Phone 301-763-3780 bradley.t.ellerman@census.gov Address Human Resources Division 4600 Silver Hill Road Washington, DC 20233 US Next steps You notified of your applicion stus through USAJOBS four points during the hiring process, as applicable. You can check the stus of your applicion by accessing the USAJOBS website https://usajobs.gov and clicking on "Applicions." The stus visible next to the corresponding positions. The four points of notificion are: Applicion Received or Applicion Incomplete; Minimum Qualificion Requirement Met or Minimum Qualificion Requirement Not Met; Referred or Not Referred; and Selected or Not Selected. By submitting your applicion, you are certifying the accuracy of the informion contained in your applicion. If you make a false stement in any part of your applicion, you may not be hired; you may be termined after you begin work; or you may be fined or jailed. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct a suitability/security background investigion. You required to submit official documention prior to appointment. The agency will then verify the informion provided on your applicion (i.e., degree, veterans' preference, disability, etc.). Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/06/2026 to 05/19/2026 Salary $85,447

• $133,142 per year Pay scale & grade GG 11
• 12 Locion Few vacancies in the following locion: Suitland, MD Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Term
• 4 years Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 12 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number 26-BOC-12952968-DHA-BTE Control number 867988000