Job Description
Statistician
Executive Office of the President
Office of Management and Budget
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Summary
This position is located in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, working directly with the Chief Statistician of the United States.
Duties
This position is located in the Executive Office of the President (EOP), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), and works directly with the Chief Statistician of the United States. Among the responsibilities of OIRA's Statistical and Science Policy Branch, are the promotion of the quality, integrity, and efficiency of information and statistics collected, analyzed, and disseminated by the Federal Government that facilitates evidence-based policies and programs. The six core activities of the Branch are: (1) long-range strategic planning, (2) statistical policy, standard, and regulation development and implementation, (3) statistical program evaluation and review, (4) interagency and international coordination and engagement, (5) scientific review, and (6) information quality oversight.
To learn more about relevant work of the Statistical Policy team within the SSP Branch, visit https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-regulatory-affairs/statistical-programs-standards/; and the Federal statistical system, visit StatsPolicy.gov.
As a Statistician, GS-1530-12/13/14/15, your typical work assignments may include the following:
Serve as an expert advisor and consultant on complex survey designs, statistical model results, data quality, assessment of disclosure risk, and utility of administrative records and other unstructured data sources underlying statistical products, program evaluations, regulatory impact analyses, and risk assessments.
Assess surveys and program evaluations submitted to OMB by Federal agencies from across the government for compliance with the goals and requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act; provide training to encourage agency-wide improvements in the quality and utility of their information collections.
Coordinate interagency working groups that develop and implement government-wide statistical standards or best practices for measuring population characteristics, improving statistical methods and models, and disseminating statistics about small groups.
Lead development or maintenance of Federal Government-wide regulations, policies, and standards designed to promote data quality, utility, comparability and consistency, and protect confidentiality, mitigate the risk of reidentification, and otherwise enhance the integrity of Federal statistics.
Evaluate the implications for the Federal statistical system of proposed statutes, Executive Orders, OMB policies, and Agency policies regarding confidentiality of data, use of privacy enhancing technologies, cyber security, access to Federal statistical data, and data sharing.
This position is developmental in nature, with known promotion potential to the GS-15 level. Promotion to the next highest grade level is neither guaranteed nor implied.