Summary
This is a Without Compensation (WOC) Research Statistician Assistant position with the Office of Research and Development (ORD). The VA Research Program strives to promote Veteran-centered care to improve patient experiences and outcomes across VA healthcare and community settings, and to advance value-driven care by providing Veterans the highest quality care at the lowest financial burden.
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This is a Without Compensation (WOC) Research Statistician Assistant position with the Office of Research and Development (ORD) in St. Louis, MO. The incumbent will function as a data manager responsible for working with research data utilizing various statistical methods. The incumbent will work under the direction of the Principal Investigator (PI); the lead researcher who designs, directs, and manages the assigned study. The incumbent's duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Designing, testing, implementing, and monitoring research data collected as part of health status questionnaires.
- Production and testing of research data to ensure validity and reliability.
- Establishing and monitoring data collection timelines and response rates; and ensuring completeness.
- Assisting the Principal Investigator (PI) with data control procedures to include preliminary analyses, editing/correction of errors, and preparation of data files for analysis and final reports of study findings.
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Conditions of employment
- U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- Subject to background/security investigation.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/10/2026.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: All applicants must possess the following experience:
- Assisting in gathering and organizing statistical data from routine reporting sources, following established procedures and guidance.
- Performing basic reviews of source documents to check for completeness, obvious errors, and consistency with prior reports.
- Entering and updating statistical data in standard formats, making simple adjustments as instructed to ensure accuracy.
- Locating readily available data from primary and secondary sources and made straightforward comparisons to identify differences or changes.
- Performing simple statistical calculations using prescribed methods, such as totals, averages, and basic frequency counts, under close supervision.
NOTE: Applicants must possess at least 3 out of the 5 experience points listed above. Any claimed experience must be documented on the applicant's resume to include the organization name, dates, and position title through which the experience was gained.
A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
Physical Requirements: The work is predominantly sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there will be some walking, standing, bending and carrying of items of moderate weight such as large binders, banker style file boxes, meeting materials, papers, books or small parts. Hand and eye coordination for delicate testing procedures may be the only special physical demand required to perform the work.
Education
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications (particularly positions with a positive education requirement). Therefore, applicants must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants can verify accreditation here. All claimed education will be verified by the appointing agency accordingly.
If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. Please see additional information here.
Additional information
- Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process as it pertains to the DVA, please review this document.
- It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment. If you are unable to apply online or require an alternate method to submit application documentation, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this job announcement.
- VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact listed on this job announcement for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator.
- The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced federal and/or VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified: applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the required competencies of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website here.
- For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.
- During the application process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting-in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.
- Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.
- The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position. This job announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies as needed.
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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
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