Interdisciplinary

This position is part of the Defense Human Resources Activity. The incumbent plans, designs, and executes multiple simultaneous short- and long-term research projects covering broad military personnel policy domains such as retention, career progression, total force fitness, and quality of life, including highly sensitive behavioral and sociological topics such as sexual assault and suicide prevention.

You may qualify at the GS-13, if you fulfill the following qualifications: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service: Experience planning, developing, administering, and analyzing survey instruments, questionnaires, and/or focus group protocols, including establishing specifications for data content, collection, and dissemination. Expertise with researching military personnel topics (e.g., readiness, organizational climate, sexual assault, retention, military spouse employment) is preferred. Experience applying advanced social/statistical methods, techniques, and practices; and expert knowledge of analytic techniques (descriptive, inferential, univariate, regression, and other multivariate) commonly used in behavioral science research to analyze data from large-scale, probability-based sample surveys to determine attitudes and opinions. Leading efforts to describe research results by writing technical, methodological and research reports. This position requires graduate-level statistical training, including 9 semester hours in statistics at the graduate level. Experience in applying social science methodologies, theories, and analytic techniques (such as statistics, psychology, and social sciences) to synthesize complex analytical findings for presentation (orally and in writing) to senior leadership. ; OR You may qualify at the GS-12, if you fulfill the following qualifications: B. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service: Assisting in the planning, developing, administering, and analyzing survey instruments, questionnaires, and/or focus group protocols, including establishing specifications for data content, collection, and dissemination. Familiarity with researching military personnel topics (e.g., readiness, organizational climate, sexual assault, retention, military spouse employment) is preferred. Experience supporting the application of advanced social/statistical methods, techniques, and practices; and expert knowledge of analytic techniques (descriptive, inferential, univariate, regression, and other multivariate) commonly used in behavioral science research to analyze data from large-scale, probability-based sample surveys to determine attitudes and opinions. Experience contributing to the development of research results by writing technical, methodological and research reports. This position requires graduate-level statistical training, including 9 semester hours in statistics at the graduate level. Experience in applying social science methodologies, theories, and analytic techniques (such as statistics, psychology, and social sciences) to synthesize complex analytical findings for reports. ; OR In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0101/0180/1530 series. C. If you are applying for the Social Science 0101 series, you must have the following. Degree: behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position. OR Combination of education and experience that provided the applicant with knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. OR Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrated that the applicant has acquired knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. D. If you are applying for the Psychology 0180 series, you must have the following: Degree: major or equivalent in psychology for all specializations except clinical psychology and counseling psychology. E. If you are applying for the Statistics 1530 series, you must have the following: 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. 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. *NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.