WOC-Research Statistical Assistant

Full Job Description

This position serves as Without Compensation Research Statistical Assistant 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.

Please note, there is no pay associated with this position. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/31/2026.

You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Experience: You must possess general experience in any type of work that demonstrates designing, testing, implementing, and monitoring data collected as part of health status questionnaires, production and testing to ensure validity and reliability, and troubleshooting during the study.

Assists in data control procedures including preliminary analyses, editing and correction of errors, and preparation of data files for analysis and final reports of study findings.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: 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.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Major Duties:

Assists the Principal Investigator in data control procedures including preliminary analyses, editing and correction of errors, and preparation of data files for analysis and final reports of study findings.

Responsible for working with data utilizing statistical methods.

Design, test, implement and monitor data collected as part of health status questionnaires, production and testing to ensure validity and reliability, and trouble shooting during the course of the study.

Establishes and monitors data collection timelines and response rates, ensuring completeness of the process. Work Schedule: Full-time (Without Compensation)