State of Maryland

A Statistical Assistant I is the intermediate level of semi-professional statistical work.  Employees in this classification have primary responsibility for recurrent, routine data collection duties, tabulations or reports that already have developed procedures.  Employees in this classification participate in selecting, orienting, training and supervising clerical personnel assigned to their projects.  Employees in this classification, under professional direction, assist with special studies, pilot projects and preparation of reports involving more complex statistical procedures and in the development of directions and procedures for the conduct of statistical and other data-related routines and tasks.  Employees in this classification may supervise clerical staff.

Employees in this classification receive moderate direction and supervision from a higher-level Statistical Assistant or a professional Research Statistician.  Work effectiveness is evaluated through conferences and reports.

Positions in this classification are evaluated by using the classification job evaluation methodology.  The use of this method involves comparing the assigned duties and responsibilities of a position to the job criteria found in the Nature of Work and Examples of Work sections of the class specification.

The Statistical Assistant I and Statistical Assistant II are differentiated on the basis of degree of supervisory control exercised by the supervisor over these employees. The Statistical Assistant I performs duties under close supervision at times and under general supervision at other times depending on the complexity of the specific duty being performed and the Statistical Assistant II performs the full range of duties and responsibilities under general supervision. 

Collects, codes, edits, classifies and tabulates statistical data;

Performs routine statistical procedures including preparation of frequency distributions and calculation of rates, measures of central tendency and other intermediate statistical techniques;

Arranges statistical information in tabular, chart or graphic form;

Assists statisticians in collecting, tabulation and analysis of data for special studies and projects;

May supervise clerical employees and review, check and verify their calculations;

Performs other related duties.

Knowledge of elementary and basic statistical techniques, methods and procedures;

Ability to organize, collect, code, edit, classify and tabulate statistical data;

Ability to present statistical information in tabular, chart and graphic form;

Ability to prepare frequency distributions;

Ability to compute accurate measures of central tendency;

Ability to assume responsibility for preparing routine reports;

Ability to assist in preparing special reports, as requested;

Ability to assume increasing responsibility for the conduct of routine statistical operations including supervision of lower-level personnel.

Education:   Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate with demonstrated aptitude for performing arithmetical calculations and dealing with numerical concepts.

Experience: Two years of experience in statistical work which must have included the application of basic elementary statistical techniques.

Note: Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in Statistician classifications or Statistician and Statistician Assistant specialty codes in the Statistics field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

Class specifications are broad descriptions covering groups of positions used by various State departments and agencies. Position descriptions maintained by the using department or agency specifically address the essential job functions of each position.

This is a Skilled Service classification in the State Personnel Management System.  All positions in this classification are Skilled Service positions.  Some positions in Skilled Service classifications may be designated Special Appointment in accordance with the State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 6-405, Annotated Code of Maryland.

This classification is assigned to Bargaining Unit B- Administrative, Technical and Clerical classes.  As provided by State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 3-102, special appointment, temporary, contractual, supervisory, managerial and confidential employees are excluded from collective bargaining.  Additionally, certain executive branch agencies are exempt from collective bargaining and all positions in those agencies are excluded from collective bargaining.

Employees in this classification are eligible to receive overtime compensation.  An employee who works more than the normal workweek is entitled to be compensated for that overtime as provided by State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 8-305.

This classification is one level in a Non-Competitive Promotion (NCP) series.  NCP promotions are promotions by which employees may advance in grade and class level from trainee to full performance levels in a classification series.  In order to be non-competitively promoted to the next level in a NCP series an employee must: 1) perform the main purpose of the class as defined in the Nature of Work section of the class specification; 2) receive the type of supervision defined in the class specification, and 3) meet the minimum qualifications of the classification.