Pathways Recent Graduate Economist​/Statistician​/Data Scientist

This position is located in the Bureau of the Actuary & Research, Railroad Retirement Board. The incumbent is professionally responsible for planning and conducting various economic, statistical and financial studies, projects, and cost calculations for programs administered by the agency under the provisions of the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA), Railroad Unemployment and Insurance Act (RUIA), and/or other pertinent laws. This job announcement may be used to fill one or more vacancies.

Basic Requirements for Economist Series 0110:
Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus. OR Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Basic Requirements for Statistician Series 1530:
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 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.

Basic Requirements for Data Science Series 1560:
Degree:
Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position. or Combination of education and experience:
Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.

In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements listed above, applicants must have the specialized experience and/or directly related education as defined below. For Grade GS-07:

A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service that includes assisting with the planning and conducting data collection studies or projects; analyzing data sets; assisting with conducting analysis using various computer applications and software such as QMF, SAS, R, SQL, and Excel; and assisting in developing a portion of a technical report.

OR

B. One full year of graduate level education in an accredited or pre-accredited college or university in one of the following related fields:
Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or Computer Science. The education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. OR

C. Superior Academic Achievement:
Completion of a 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree in a field of study that demonstrates the competencies required by this position with either (1) a grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 based on a 4.0 scale; (2) a 3.5 GPA based on a 4.0 scale for all required courses completed in a qualifying major field of study at either the time of application or during the last two years of your undergraduate curriculum;

(3) class standing of upper third…