Supervisory Economist/Supervisory Statistician (Economics)

Duties include but are not limited to: Directs and provides technical guidance to a branch of professional and technical employees, providing technical leadership in the following areas: Developing and improving survey collection strategies and procedures; collecting data from the most complex companies in the Consumer Price Index Programs; improving survey non­response; assisting branch Field Economists in developing strategies for obtaining participation from respondents critical to multiple BLS programs and surveys; leading, training, and mentoring others; explaining survey findings and data uses; exchanging information on developments relevant to the programs; and making presentations to interested groups regarding survey results. Assigns work to staff Economists and Economic Assistants to achieve program goals. Assignments consider the level of experience required for appropriate data collection, the current regional economic status, as well as cost and time clustering of geograph