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Position Specific Description

Recruitment Number 23-158TY, Research Statistician V, SR-24, Honolulu, O`ahu.

Summary of Duties

The purpose of the position is to perform highly complex research and statistical analysis on various phases of court operations. The work is a mix of research, statistical analysis, business analysis, and data processing. The position works closely with customers, business analysts and IT specialists and is expected to manage and execute large research projects with significant independence. The position exercises significant judgment to research, analyze, and process data into clear and effective formats for customers to understand the information and its statistical significance. The position utilizes data mapping tools, extraction and transformation tools, report builders, statistical analysis and presentation tools, databases, data warehouses, web servers and file servers. The position serves as a technical expert and plays a significant role in planning and leading projects, as well as creating policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Education Requirement: A bachelor\'s degree from an accredited college or university which included three (3) semester hours in statistics and fifteen (15) additional semester hours in an appropriate field; e.g., the physical or biological sciences, agriculture, medicine, education or engineering; or in 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.

Progressively responsible administrative, professional, or technical work experience which included: 1) sampling, 2) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, 3) applying statistical methods to data collection or processing or establishing and data collection systems; 4) applying known statistical techniques to data such as measures of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance and tests of significance may be substituted for the degree requirements on a year-for-year basis.

Examples of 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.

Specialized Experience: Three and one-half (3-1/2) years of research statistical survey work which included applying statistical theory and methods 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.

Supervisory Aptitude: The applicant must demonstrate the possession of supervisory aptitude. Supervisory Aptitude is the demonstration of aptitude or potential for performing supervisory duties through successful completion of regular or special assignments which involved some supervisory responsibilities by details to supervisory positions; by completion of training courses in supervision accompanied by application of supervisory skills in work assignments, or by favorable appraisals of a supervisor indicating the possession of supervisory potential.

Substitution of Graduate Study for Experience:

Successful completion of graduate study at an accredited college or university which included at least one (1) 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 (1) year of Specialized Experience.

(2) 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.

Supplemental Information

Any additional information may be attached to your online application, submitted by email to Recruitment@courts.hawaii.gov, or mailed to the following address: Hawai`i State Judiciary, Human Resources Department, 426 Queen Street, First Floor, Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813.

Education: If you are using education as a substitution for experience, you must submit a copy of your transcript(s) or diploma(s) at the time of application. If you are selected for a position, we will request an official transcript (not a copy) at a later date. The official transcript must indicate completion of the training and/or the awarding of the appropriate degree.

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