Supervisory Statistician (NTE 1 Year)

Office of Inspector General; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 144,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telework eligible

Job summary

Office of Inspector General in Washington, DC seeks a Supervisory Statistician in the Office of Data Analytics to support statistical and short-term analytical needs for audits and investigations.

The role emphasizes defensible sampling, survey design, rapid analytical triage, and quality control oversight of contractor and staff work, reporting to the Direct Service Hub and coordinating with audit teams.

Qualifications

• Degree/education supporting 15 statistics hours and 9 in science or related fields.
• Courses must include statistical methods or related research/statistics content.
• Combination of education and experience allowed.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary point of contact for audit teams needing statistical support.
• Oversee defensible probability sampling and survey design execution.
• Ensure quality control of work performed by contractors and JD staff.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Sampling

Survey design

Data quality control

Education

Statistics/Math degree with coursework in statistics

Job description

• Hiring Agency: Office of Inspector General
• Department: Department of Transportation
• Location: District of Columbia, District of Columbia

This position is for a Supervisory Statistician within the Office of Data Analytics (JD), Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The Office of Data Analytics serves as the OIG's center for advanced analytical capabilities, providing data science, statistical analysis, and economic modeling expertise to support investigations, audits, and the OIG broadly.

Key Responsibilities

This position is for a Supervisory Statistician within the Office of Data Analytics (JD), Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The Direct Service Hub provides rapid, on-demand analytical support to the Auditing and Evaluation office (JA) and serves as the primary liaison between audit teams and JD for statistical sampling, survey research, and other short-term analysis needs.

The incumbent will function as the primary point of contact for audit teams seeking direct statistical and other short-term analytical support on audit engagements. The role emphasizes defensible probability sampling, survey design and execution, rapid analytical triage, and quality control oversight of work performed by contractors and JD staff.

Requirements & Education

Mandatory Education Requirement: 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.

Transcripts Verifying Basic Education Requirement - You must submit unofficial or official transcripts verifying you meet the Basic Education Requirement. Ensure that the degree awarded and confer date are clearly stated on the transcript(s). You must provide documentation or proof that your degree(s) is from a school accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the Secretary, U.S.

Department of Education, or that your education meets the other provisions outlined in the OPM Operating Manual. If you completed your education outside of the U.S., you must provide proof its equivalent to accredited U.S. education programs. Special Instructions for Foreign Education: Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities.

Applicants educated in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree. You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing along with your application. Failure to provide such documentation when requested will result in lost consideration.

Learn more about education and training requirements. The link (s) below contain a list of accredited organizations that specialize in interpreting of foreign education credentials: Members - NACES https://naces.org/members/ Credential Evaluation Services - AICE - Association of International Credential Evaluators. Inc. https://aice-eval.org/members/

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Office of Inspector General, Department of Transportation.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $143913 - $187093/yr.

Is this position remote or telework eligible?

This position is eligible for telework.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-08.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.