Mathematical Statistician

Duties

As the federal agency whose mission is to ensure the fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans, the Department of Justice is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. To build and retain a workforce that reflects the diverse experiences and perspectives of the American people, we welcome applicants from the many communities, identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, religions, and cultures of the United States who share our commitment to public service.

As a Mathematical Statistician, your typical work assignments may include:

• Reviewing, adapting, and modeling domestic manufacturing and distribution efforts necessary to meet legitimate US medical and scientific needs.
• Determining the availability of relevant data, performs methodological research, and generating inferences about drug abuse problems based on comprehensive analysis of data.
• Defining difficult and unique problems, conducting research, collecting data, reducing findings to facts, and interpreting and documenting findings.
• Ensuring the validity of statistical information upon which agency and Federal policy decisions are made in the development, direction and coordination of the Diversion Control effort.
• Exploring mathematical, statistical, and information handling, and generating inferences about the drug abuse and chemical diversion problems based on comprehensive analysis of the data.
• Assessing data and applying mathematical or statistical tools to index/model that reasonably anticipate future legitimate domestic needs of internationally controlled narcotic and psychotropic substances.
• Preparing complex technical and special reports, papers, presentations, briefing papers, and statistical materials based on the data collected and analyzed.
• Providing innovative recommendations for advancing models of legitimate medical and scientific drug and chemical consumption, diversion estimates of drugs and chemicals, and for resolving obscure problems related to drug and chemical diversion.
• Serving as spokesperson in defining the significance of drug abuse and chemical diversion statistics supporting drug and chemical control action.

To apply and for more information about the Diversion Investigator position please click here - USAJOBS - Job Announcement.