Research Statistician

Full Job Description

Please note: There is no pay associated with this position. This position serves as Without Compensation Research Statistician within 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.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/16/2026. You may qualify based on your education and experience as described below.

Individual Occupational Requirements Basic Requirements: 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.

A transcript must be submitted with your application Experience: Uses statistical and database computer programs to construct and manage datasets and databases relevant to projects.

Checks validity of data and programs through use of frequencies, listings, summaries, and calculation of meaningful data metrics. Conducts univariate and multivariate statistical data analyses.

Conducts multivariate regression analyses using ordinary least squares, logistic, and survival models. Reviews analytical results for accuracy and completeness.

Develops and maintains systems and databases designed to ensure that research projects comply with administrative policies, procedures and requirements set forth by entities.

Codes data and summarizes it in tables and graphs.

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; religions; 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: 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. Major Duties:

Major Duties: Analytic and casual influence support for ongoing VA-casual methods core projects that are nearing completion, specifically, the target trial emulation off shingles vaccination for the prevention of dementia and cognitive decline.

This research investigator will contribute to the interpretation of quantitative findings and the preparation of research results for publications, presentations, and operational reporting.

This work directly supports veterans as it ensures robust analytic practice is employed to identify case-and-effect relationships, which affects clinical decision-making and directly aligns with research mission of the VHA office of Research and Development.

Work Schedule: (Without Compensation)