Clarification from the agency

U. S. Citizens, no prior Federal experience required.

As the architect of the IRS data strategy, the Chief Data and Analytics Officer works with IRS leaders across the enterprise to establish data priorities and increase data literacy. The CDAO leads data governance activities, such as setting data standards and quality guidelines and collaborates with the IRS CIO on strategies to improve access to data to advance program goals and support research, statistics and evidence building. By collaborating with peers in other Treasury bureaus and across government, and through regular engagement with private sector data leaders, the CDO ensures IRS policies align with industry best practices and support government-wide efforts to treat data as a strategic asset.

As leader of the IRS Research, Applied Analytics and Statistics organization, the CDAO leads a team of almost 400 data scientists, statisticians, social scientists, computer programmers, and support personnel as well as significant contract resources. This team develops and delivers cutting-edge analytical solutions for addressing current and emerging tax service and compliance challenges. Data and analytics are at the heart of IRS strategic goals as embodied by the recently released Taxpayer First Act Report to Congress. This is an exciting opportunity to join the diverse and dynamic IRS leadership team as it begins a new era in tax administration founded in data and analytics.  

Major Duties:

• Develops and implements data strategy to advance new solutions for addressing current and emerging tax compliance issues, supporting tax policy research, and providing insight and guidance on applying data-driven approaches for improving tax administration and instilling a data-driven culture.
  
  
• Develops and implements IRS-wide data and analytical policies, governance structures, programs, and tools to meet the short-term and long-term challenges and needs of the agency.
  
  
• Assists the IRS Commissioner and senior leadership in overseeing and performing critical strategic planning activities and functions by identifying emerging and cross-divisional initiatives, developing cutting edge analytical approaches, reviewing and validating appropriate measures and indicators, and assisting with implementation.
  
  
• Partners with key IRS business executives to identify opportunities for applying analytics to a challenge, develops hypotheses, and conducts research to address taxpayer non-compliance, enhance service delivery, and protect tax revenue.
  
  
• Oversees developing and implementing best practices in statistics, computer science, data science, economics, operations research, and social science.
  
  
• Oversees state-of-the-art data warehouse and computing environments developed to support advanced research and analytics.
  
  
• Advises IRS leadership on training and education programs to enhance data literacy and use of data across the enterprise.
  
  
• Leads efforts to establish analytically driven centers of excellence and communities of practice to support data and analytics.
  
  
• Leads agency activities supporting federal government-wide data and evidence building laws and policies.
  
  
• Engages with the Treasury Chief Data Officer, other agencies and professional organizations to share IRS practices and identify opportunities to better address customer needs.

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Conditions of employment

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CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
If selected for this position, you will be required to:

• Complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed).
• Senior Executive Service employees are required to be geographically mobile to accomplish the Service’s mission. 
• If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so.
• Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment.
• Provide information to successfully complete a background investigation. Applicants must have a successfully adjudicated FBI criminal history record check (fingerprint check) and a NACI or equivalent.
• Go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the Form I-9 (http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-9_IFR_02-02-09.pdf); one must be a valid state or federal government-issued picture identification. Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S. Employees must maintain PIV credential eligibility during their service with the Department of the Treasury.
• A pre-employment federal income tax verification.
• Federal law requires verification of identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) participates in e-Verify (Employment Verification) and may provide information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and/or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to secure a work authorization. You will receive written instructions and contact information for SSA and DHS if this information cannot be confirmed.
• Salary for Senior Executive Service jobs will vary depending on qualifications.
• File a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report within 30 days of appointment and with an annual review.
• Veterans' preference does not apply to positions in the Senior Executive Service.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement for entry into the Senior Executive Service (SES), your résumé must show evidence of progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive

level management capability, and that is directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under:

1) Technical Qualifications (TQs)

2) Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs)

To be qualified for this position, your résumé must reflect experience in a managerial capacity. Typically, experience of this nature is gained at or above the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service, or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. As such, your resume must demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as: 

• Directing the work of an organizational unit;
• Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects;
• Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance; and
• Supervising the work of other managers and exercising important policy-making, policy determining, or other executive functions.

Failure to meet the basic qualification requirement and address all Mandatory Technical Competency and Executive Core Qualification factors will result in your application being disqualified.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): The ECQs were designed to assess executive experience and potential not technical expertise. They measure whether an individual has the broad executive skills needed to succeed in a variety of SES positions. All applicants must submit a written narrative to address the ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and should contain at least two examples per ECQ describing your experiences and accomplishments/results. The narrative should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities, scope and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments, policy Initiatives undertaken and the results of your actions. Applicants should not enter "Refer to Resume" to explain your answer.

The narrative must not exceed 10 pages.

NOTE: Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program graduates who have been certified by OPM do NOT need to address the ECQs:

1. Leading Change: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. (Competencies: creativity and innovation, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, strategic thinking, vision)
2. Leading People: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organizations vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. (Competencies: conflict management, leveraging diversity, developing others, team building)
3. Results Driven: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. (Competencies: accountability, customer service, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, problem solving, technical credibility)
4. Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. (Competencies: financial management, human capital management, technology management)
5. Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. (Competencies: partnering, political savvy, influencing/negotiating)

Fundamental Competencies: These competencies are the foundation for success in each of the Executive Core Qualifications: Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Continual Learning, Written Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Public Service Motivation. The Fundamental Competencies are crosscutting; and should be addressed over the course of each ECQ narratives.

Applicants should follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Result (CCAR) model outlined in the guide. 

• Challenge - Describe a specific problem or goal.
• Context - Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (e.g., clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale).
• Action - Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge.
• Result - Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization. These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills.

Additional information about the SES and Executive Core Qualifications can be found on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) SES Website. You are strongly encouraged to review OPMs Guide to SES Qualifications for specific examples and guidance on writing effective ECQ narrative statements.
 

MANDATORY TECHNICAL COMPETENCY QUALIFICATIONS (TQs):

In addition to specialized experience, applicants must possess the following technical qualifications that represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to perform the duties
and responsibilities of the position. Please give examples and explain the complexity of the knowledge possessed and the sensitivity of the issued you handled.

Technical Qualifications (TQs)-- Your résumé must show that you possess the following TQs:

1. Experience developing or implementing strategies to advance the use of data within an organization, including leading or participating on a Data Governance Board, establishing data governance procedures such as data quality and/or metadata standards, developing strategic priorities for data acquisition and advancing data literacy.
   
   
2. Comprehensive knowledge of and experience in applying a range of cutting-edge advanced analytics (data/text mining, machine learning, pattern matching, forecasting, visualization, semantic analysis, network and cluster analysis, multivariate statistics, graph analysis, simulation, neural networks, etc.) to advance organizational goals such as improving processes or outcomes.

To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.

Preferred Qualifications:

The IRS seeks candidates who possess a PhD from an accredited institution, accompanied by a distinguished record of accomplishments in statistics, computer science, operations research, data science, economics, mathematics, or a similar field.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

1. Applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements will be eligible for consideration in this process. Applicants will be rated based on the quality and extent of their leadership skills, technical experience and accomplishments, as described in their Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ) and Technical Competency (TC) narratives (defined above).

2. Applicants are required to submit separate narrative statements specifically addressing the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs). These narratives are mandatory for consideration in the process. The ECQs describe the leadership skills needed to succeed in the Senior Executive Service and are in addition to the specific technical competencies. To assess the executive potential of each candidate, applicants must demonstrate, with specific examples, how their experience is relevant to exercising leadership in each ECQ. A concise executive summary must show where and when the qualifications were obtained, the organizational setting in which the experience was acquired (e.g.; organizational size, level, and assigned fiscal resources) and a narrative discussion of the qualifications.

3. For noncompetitive consideration:

a. Current or former Senior Executive applicants are not required to address the ECQs but it is MANDATORY to address the TQs for this position in the resume and submit an SF-50 that documents your career appointment status in the SES.

b. SES Candidate Development Program (SESCDP) applicants who have not been placed on a career Senior Executive appointment are not required to address the ECQs, but it is MANDATORY to address the TQs for this position in the resume and also submit a copy of your OPM-QRB certification.   

4. Applicants will be evaluated by a Senior Executive Panel and those determined best qualified may be referred to participate in a selection interview.  

If selected, you must be certified by an OPM Qualifications Review Board (QRB), unless you are a current or former OPM certified SES executive. You must receive certification before you can be appointed to the position.

Additional information about the SES and Executive Core Qualifications is available at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/#url=Overview