Survey Clerk OA

Full Job Description

This vacancy is for an Survey Clerk OA position in the Associate Director for Field Operations Field Division, Regional Office locations.

Few positions are available at each of the two (2) Regional Office locations.

This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Survey Clerk OA, 0303-5, FPL None, positions within the Census Bureau in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.

Minimum Education Requirement: To be minimally qualified for this position you MUST have a typing proficiency of at least 40 words per minute with three or fewer errors in a five-minute writing sample.

AND Specialized Experience: For the GS-05, you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-04 in the Federal service.

Experience for this position includes: providing office support to a staff and performing clerical duties such as, mass mailings, file system management, telephone monitoring, and maintain program forms and office files; maintaining survey materials, control files, computing ratios, and preparing computerized reports; using Google search or similar search engines, MapQuest or applications similar to YellowPages.com, Fast Data and Yahoo, using databases such as Access or Excel, conducting searches on specific data elements, reviewing case outcomes, and determining if adequate information is provided or if additional follow up is needed; or working and dealing with multiple customer demands in a professional environment.

OR Education: Four years above high school.

Note: Equivalent combinations of education and experience are qualifying for all grade levels and positions for which both education and experience are acceptable.

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. After you submit this application, you will receive an e-mail informing you that a USA Hire assessment is required.

You will have 48 hours from the closing date of this announcement, 04/03/2026, to complete the assessment as this assessment is part of your application. Major Duties:

• Coordinate a variety of tasks required in the collection, control, field review and report statistical data obtained in a major survey or combination of surveys.
• Provide technical assistance to field staff by using automated tools including addresses and/or respondent search through the internet or other search applications including mapping software.
• Perform automated searches for case status, documentation for case outcomes, and following up with field staff on missing or inadequate case information.
• Establish working relationships with all levels of management external parties, and stakeholders.