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Data Scientist
Office of the Inspector General · Posted 3 days ago
About the Role
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Inspector General's (OIG) Office of Analytics and Innovation (OAI) is seeking a data scientist to join our creative, multidisciplinary team. OAI's mission is to empower OIG to leverage data and analytics proactively to promote efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency. OAI deploys data analysis; data visualization; and statistical sampling, projection, modeling, and forecasting to identify fraud, waste, and abuse in USDA programs and operations.
What You'll Do
- →Provides expert design and development of data models and statistical analyses to visualize the impact of alternative strategies and methods.
- →Designs and implements custom layouts, algorithms, workflow processes, software, and computer programs for analyzing complex, enterprise-scale data sets used for modeling, data mining, and research purposes.
- →Provides expert and authoritative advice to the OAI team, it's customers, and invested stakeholders internal and external to Office of Inspector General.
- →As a project lead, ensures status updates and issues are communicated to the team and project manager.
- →Writing code (e.g., SQL, R, or Python) that can be used by others to create models, dashboards, and user apps.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a US Citizen or US National.
- ✓Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- ✓Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- ✓Direct Deposit - Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period depending on your appointment type, unless previous federal service is creditable.
- ✓During this time your employment will be evaluated, and we may consider: your performance and conduct, the needs and interests of the agency, whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government, and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary or trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓You must submit a copy of your college transcripts to show that you meet the basic education requirement for the Data Scientist position, 1560 series.
- ✓Unofficial transcripts with the degree title, list of courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter or semester hours earned can be used as a substitute for the official transcripts at the time of application.
- ✓If you are selected for a position, official transcripts will be required prior to entering on duty.
- ✓If a relevant course is not clearly qualifying (e.g., special topic, seminar, research, thesis, obscure or misleading course title, etc.), please submit an official course syllabi and/or detailed course description from the university/college for that particular course to ensure you are properly evaluated.
- ✓Provide all relevant transcripts, not just your most recent one.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 4c8f1329-c8ff-491b-ab18-e71f513a0c51
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