Division of Research and Statistics
Closing Date: 3/3/23Salary: $70,549 - $112,174 per year
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The Division of Research and Statistics (DRS) serves as a leading source of informative research, accessible data, and recognized expertise in housing finance. DRS produces and disseminates high-quality data, research, statistics, and analysis to internal and external stakeholders. DRS executes life-cycle data management and provides agency-level data governance. Finally, DRS contributes economic expertise and analyses to policy, regulatory and supervisory decision-making.
Duties:
- Performs various aspects of the lifecycle of data: design, development, collection, storage, production, validation, management, maintenance, documentation, dissemination, usage, and user support.
- Conducts primary data collection of administrative and survey data, including mortgage, borrower, and property data. Examples include loan application, loan performance and appraisal data.
- Conducts validation and quality assessment of data to produce and disseminate accurate and reliable data and statistics.
- Conducts research, analysis, assessment, modeling, visualization, and programming to improve production and dissemination of housing and mortgage data and statistics using a variety of tools such as SAS, Stata, R, SQL, and Tableau.
- Writes and disseminates technical documentation, technical reports, statistical blogs, analytical insights, and research papers, including internal and external presentations.
- Develops, creates, and produces statistical products, including dashboards and other similar tools.
- Provides support of internal and external users of the data and statistics produced and disseminated by the office.
- Communicates with users of data and statistics to improve and further development data and statistics.
- Monitors developments in data and quantitative methods and industry best practices in economics, statistics, housing finance, and credit, financial, and regulatory reporting to improve and further develop data production and dissemination.
- Provides technical information and briefings to peers and senior staff in the agency, regulated entities, industry groups, and the public.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
A. Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus.
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B. Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
