• Job Description

  Req#: 763545800
  This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
  
  About the Position: Serve as Data Scientist for US Army Integrated Prevention Advisory Group (I-PAG) at the headquarters level and provides data support to assigned I-PAG locations.
  
  
  Duties
  
  
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for the Army’s prevention workforce in a highly specialized area of public health / prevention science.
  • Support prevention data efforts as assigned by supervisor.
  • Provide technical expertise (e.g., data integration through statistical software, tool development, and technical assistance) to inform requests for information comprehensive needs assessments, and comprehensive integrated primary prevention plans.
  • Collaborate with relevant internal and external partners to provide support to public health studies, prevention research, and evaluation projects.
  • Represent the Army at professional, DoD, and other government agency scientific and technical meetings.
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  • Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
  • Must obtain and maintain secret security clearance.
  • This position may require temporary duty (TDY) business travel up to 15% of the time.
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  Who May Apply: US Citizens
  
  In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
  
  Basic Requirement:
  1. 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

  2. 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.
  
  Specialized Experience: Conducting statistical analysis using statistical software (e.g. R, SAS); Providing data expertise to support aspects such as design, collection, analysis, synthesis, and interpretation; Conducting a literature review; Presenting findings to leaders; Collaborating with partners internal and external to your organizations to enhance research and/or public health practice; and Producing information products (e.g., scientific presentation, technical report, manuscript) or any other medium/format used to disseminate methods and findings.This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).
  
  Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
  
  
  

• About the company

  The United States Department of Defense is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. The DOD is the largest employer in the world, with over 1.3 million active-duty service members as of 2020. More employees include over 826,000 National Guard and reservists from the armed forces, and over 732,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the DoD's stated mission is to provide "the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security".

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