Division of Research and Statistics Overview
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.
DRS carries out its work through four main organizational areas - the Office of Research and Analysis (ORA), the Office of Data and Statistics (ODS), the Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO), and the Climate Change and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Branch. ORA is responsible for producing and disseminating high quality research and analysis related to housing market and housing finance. ODS is responsible for primary collection, development, production, management, validation, documentation, and dissemination of data and statistics over several key FHFA datasets. OCDO supports FHFA in managing and leveraging data as a strategic asset by improving data governance, lifecycle data management, analytics capabilities, and public data dissemination for DRS and throughout the Agency. The Climate Change and ESG Branch provides the coordination needed to achieve the Agency's Climate Change and ESG strategic objectives and leads the Agency's research on climate change.
The incumbent will possess knowledge in economics, statistics, housing finance, accounting, and credit, financial, and regulatory reporting. This includes demonstrated skills in research, analysis, assessment, programming, and data analytics with formal training in economics, statistics, or a related quantitative field.
Major Duties & Responsibilities
The Economist/ Statistician duties listed below are at the EL-09 level:
- 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.
- Conducts validation and quality assessment of data to produce and disseminate accurate and reliable data and statistics.
- Conducts survey design, questionnaire design, sampling, survey weights, data imputation, non-response analysis, and bias analysis.
- Conducts research, analysis, assessment, modeling, and programming to improve production and dissemination of housing and mortgage data and statistics.
- 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.
Starting at $74,076 Per Year (EL 9)
