Research Statistician IV - Executive Office on Early Learning

Salary Range:

All new external applicants will be placed on the initial step of the salary range.

However, placement above the initial step of the salary range will be based on special characteristics and critical needs of the position, an applicant's exceptional qualifications, the availability of funds, and other relevant factors.

Such appointments require prior approval.

Hawaii State Department of Education employees will be placed on the salary range in accordance with Department regulations.
Research Statistician IV, SR-22:

$5,076.00 - $6,177.00 per month

Initiates research

statistical investigations, and plans and designs the activities of such investigations.
O rients project staff on study objectives.
R ecognizes the need for research statistical investigations in the subject matter area that will yield pertinent data.
S elects, modifies and applies statistical techniques and methods to the collection and analysis of data.
C onducts survey studies with the help of subordinate personnel in an assigned geographic area for survey reporting systems.
R ecognizes the effect of relevant socio-economic data on the design and execution of research statistical studies.
P repares narrative reports of findings with valid conclusions and predicts trends.
P repares reports of budget needs of the project study.
P repares data for computer processing.
A dvises program specialists, administrators or the general public of research findings and/or research procedures.
Education Requirement:

Applicants must have successfully completed one of the following: A.

A

full 4-year course leading to a Bachelor's degree in an accredited college or university which has included 3 semester hours in statistics and 15 additional semester hours in an appropriate field, e.g. the physical or biological sciences, agriculture, medicine, education or engineering; or i n the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, sociology, political science, public administration, business administration, psychology, etc.

B.

F our years of progressively responsible experience in administrative, professional, investigative, technical or other responsible work which demonstrated that the applicant is able to assimilate and analyze data to arrive at sound solutions to problems and which includes evidence of professional statistical work.

T his experience should include evidence of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling; (b) collecting, computing and analyzing statistical data; (c) applying statistical methods to data collection or processing or in the establishment and operation of data collection systems; (d) applying known statistical techniques to data such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance and tests of significance.
Without other indication of professional statistical experience, work in the processing of numerical or quantified information by other than statistical methods is not considered appropriate qualifying experience.

Examples of such non-qualifying work include statistical clerical work; statistical drafting; work requiring the calculation of totals, averages, percentages or other arithmetic summations; work involving the preparation of simple tables or charts; work requiring the verification of data by simple comparison or proofreading.

C.

C ourses as given in A above, plus additional appropriate experience as described in B or education which when combined with these courses, will total four years of education and experience and give the applicant a technical knowledge comparable to that which would have been acquired through successful completion of a full four-year course.
Experience Requirements

:

Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience of the type and quality described below and in the amounts indicated in the following table:
Class Title

Specialized Experience

Supervisory Experience

Admin Experience

Total (years)

Research Statistician IV

2-1/2

0

0

2-1/2

Specialized Experience :

Research statistical survey work which included applying statistical theory and method to the planning, establishment and operation of comprehensive data collection systems, including all phases of collection, editing, processing and publishing of complex and extensive statistical data.

The capacity to plan and coordinate statistical survey activities of considerable difficulty, breadth and complexity is required.
S

ubstitution of Graduate Study for Experience

:

Successful completion of graduate study at an accredited college or university which included at least one graduate course in research methods and techniques or in advanced statistics may be substituted for experience to the extent indicated below:
(1)

Each full year (30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours) of graduate study in an appropriate field, as described in the Education Requirement, for one year of Specialized Experience.

(2)

The completion of all requirements for the Ph.D. degree in statistics or in any of the appropriate subject-matter field, including the thesis, may be substituted for all of the experience required for the Research Statistician IV level.
Quality of Experience

:

Possession of the required number of years of experience will not in itself be accepted as proof of qualification for a position.

The applicant's overall experience must have been of such scope and level of responsibility as to conclusively demonstrate that applicant has the ability to perform the duties of the position for which applicant is being considered. Salary:

The advertised salary is based on full-time employment and includes shortage and school year differentials, if applicable.

Requirements:

Applicants must meet all the requirements for the position they are seeking as of the date of the application, unless otherwise specified.

Unless specifically indicated, the required education and experience may not be gained concurrently.

Calculation of experience is based on full-time, 40-hour workweeks.

Part-time experience is pro-rated.

Example:

Twelve months of experience at 20 hours/week is equivalent to six months of experience, not one year.

Also, hours worked in excess of 40 hours/week will not be credited.

Example:

Twelve months of experience at 60 hours/week is equivalent to one year of experience, not one and a half years.

Temporary Assignment:

Claims of Temporary Assignment (TA) experience to meet the minimum qualification requirements must be verified and attached to the application using one of the options below:

A copy of the applicants TA History Report or equivalent system-generated report;

A signed letter from the applicants supervisor that includes the applicants name, his/her TA job title, the TA start and end dates (from mm/yy to mm/yy), his/her specific TA duties performed, and either the TA hours worked per week or total TA hours worked; or,

Copies of the applicants signed SF-10 Forms.

Documents:

Attach all relevant supporting documents to your application.

Documents that were attached to applications submitted before November 16, 2023 do not automatically attach or transfer to applications submitted on and after December 16, 2023.

All submitted documents become the property of the Hawaii State Department of Education.

Information about Temporary Positions:

Temporary positions may be extended year to year, dependent upon funding and departmental needs.

Making yourself available for temporary positions increases your employment possibilities and may lead to permanent opportunities.

A person hired for a temporary position may also become a temporary employee upon satisfactory completion of the initial probation period of at least six months.

Once a temporary employee, you would be eligible to apply for promotion and transfer opportunities to permanent as well as other temporary positions.

You may also enjoy other rights and benefits as afforded to an employee in a permanent position, with the exception of return rights and placement rights associated with a reduction-in-force.
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