Statistician (Health)

Centers-For-Medicare-and-Medicaid-Services; Woodlawn (MD); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

CMS, Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics, Survey Management & Analytics Group, seeks a Health Statistician (GS-1530-13) to evaluate program data, conduct data surveys, and perform statistical studies on prices, utilization, and costs related to health care and human services programs. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date.

Your resume should document at least one year of specialized experience, including: designing large-scale questionnaires; linking survey responses

Qualifications

• Design or lead development of probability-based questionnaires or computerized survey instruments for large-scale surveys.
• Develop a process for combining raw survey data to link responses across interviews, apply data edits, recodes, or create derived variables.
• Conduct formal evaluations of survey questions, measures, or estimates, using response patterns and benchmarks to interpret results and recommend whether content or measures should be revised, used, or published.
• Assess how changes to questionnaires or data collection affect downstream processing, consistency over time, derived variables, weights, included populations, or published results.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate program data and conduct data surveys.
• Perform statistical studies on prices, utilization, and costs related to health care and human services programs.

Skills

Questionnaire design

Data linkage & processing

Statistical evaluation

Survey methodology

Job description

This position is located in the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics,Survey Management & Analytics Group (SMAG).

As a Statistician (Health), GS-1530-13, you will evaluate program data, conduct and evaluate data surveys; perform statistical studies on prices, utilization, and costs related to health care and human services programs.

ALL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.

Your resume (limited to no more than 2 pages) must include detailed information as it relates to the responsibilities and specialized experience for this position. Evidence of copying and pasting directly from the vacancy announcement without clearly documenting supplemental information to describe your experience will result in an ineligible rating. This will prevent you from receiving further consideration.

In order to qualify for the GS-13, you must meet the following: You must demonstrate in your resume at least one year (52 weeks) of qualifying specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal government, obtained in either the private or public sector, to include:

• Design or lead the development of probability-based questionnaires or computerized survey instruments for large-scale surveys.
• Develop a process for combining raw survey data in order to link responses from the same respondents across interviews, apply data edits, recodes, or create derived variables.
• Conduct formal evaluations of survey questions, measures, or estimates, using response patterns and benchmarks to interpret results and recommend whether content or measures should be revised, used, or published.
• Assess how changes to questionnaires or data collection affect downstream processing, consistency over time, derived variables, weights, included populations, or published results.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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 that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.