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Apply Now: BJS Senior Statistician Vacancy Announced

BJS is seeking a senior statistician to serve as senior advisor to the bureau. Applicants must have a bachelor's or higher-level degree from an accredited college or university with a specific number of hours in statistics and other related topics. See qualifications for a full list of eligibility requirements. Job duties include—

  • providing statistical advice and guidance on BJS’s efforts to establish, maintain, and revise national justice statistical programs
  • planning, preparing, coordinating, and disseminating data and information in very broad and technically complex subject-matter areas
  • providing technical direction to BJS staff related to project designs, specification of data processing and tabulation protocols, data analysis, report production and dissemination, and public-use data archival
  • ensuring the appropriateness of the methodologies used for the collection of criminal justice data conducted either in-house or under contract arrangement with outside entities.

Applications are due by August 10, 2020.

Date Published: August 11, 2020