Statistician

Minimum qualifications (PBrequirements)

• At least 15 years of experience in roles of increasing complexity and seniority in statistical sampling, design and evaluation, including proposing and developing sampling methodologies.
• Experience testifying as an expert witness. Please list the matters, the courts or agencies, and the years.
• Eligible for a PBPublic Trust background investigation and fitness determination. U.S.-based; U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residence preferred.
• Education and employment history that can be independently verified, as PB52.237-7001 requires.

Preferred qualifications

• PhD or other advanced degree in statistics, mathematics or a closely related field. PBprefers this but does not require it.
• Audit or compliance sampling experience, such as benefit, claims, payment-error, OIG or financial audit sampling.
• Familiarity with ERISA, defined benefit pension plans, actuarial benefit calculations, or PB standard termination and multiemployer programs.
• Proficiency in SAS, R or Python; design-based estimation and variance (stratified, cluster and ratio estimators); exact intervals for rare events; discovery and attribute acceptance sampling.
• Clear technical writing for non-statisticians and for court.