Clarification from the agency

Open to IRS Career/Career-Conditional, Treasury/IRS CTAP, & IRS RPP employees

WHAT IS THE WAGE & INVESTMENT (W&I) DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

• Activates, monitors, and controls job distribution and resource allocation for special processing requirements to link internal operating systems and utility programs with application programs, peripheral equipment, teleprocessing and input/output channels.
• Monitors systems status and performance, observes and responds to system messages, and defines, isolates, and resolves a wide range of common equipment and operating problems, failures and malfunctions. Assists in developing new or revised operating procedures.
• Run and monitor test programs to identify problems or potential for obvious problems such as memory overload. Corrects or adjusts priorities and workflow by reconfiguring equipment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Conditions of employment

STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD):
PD94924A, PD92155A, PD92156A, and PD92157A
Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions.

• If you are in a telework eligible position, you may be directed to temporarily telework on a full-time basis due to COVID 19. Employees must be within a 200-mile radius of their official assigned post-of-duty (POD) while in a telework status. Once normal operations resume, employees may be directed back to the office to perform the duties of their position. Telework eligibility does not guarantee telework; employees must meet and sustain IRS telework eligibility requirements and supervisor's approval to participate in the IRS Telework Program. As a reminder - If you are selected for a position, you are responsible for reporting to your designated POD (location) on the negotiated start date or as directed by management.

Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. 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.

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-4 LEVEL: GS-4 Level: You must have one year of general experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-3 grade level in the Federal service. General experience for this position includes: Progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work that indicates ability to acquire the particular competencies needed to perform the duties of the position to be filled. This may be paid or non-paid experience.
OR
Two years of education above the high school level (education may have been obtained in an accredited junior college, college, university, business, secretarial or technical school).
OR
An equivalent amount of combined education and experience.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-5 LEVEL: GS-5 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-4 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience with operating functions primarily related to peripheral computer components such as mail machines and printers; recording control totals for on-line output reports; preparing problem logs; following processing schedule and alerting of missing output listings; filing on-line controls and responding to inquiries related to controls and control totals. Examples of qualifying experience may have been gained in positions in the operation of a computer or peripheral device used in support of computer operations, computer related occupations that involve programming, systems analysis, production control, scheduling, knowledge of computer terminology, media and data flow, and preparing and interpreting program and system charts or other work requiring comparable knowledge of computer processing techniques.
OR
A Bachelor's degree or four (4) years of education above high school in any field of study from an accredited college or university.
OR
An equivalent amount of combined education and experience.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-6 LEVEL: GS-6 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-5 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience with standard, optional, and precedent rules and procedures to isolate and resolve common equipment and operating problems on multiprocessing\multiprogramming computer systems; Using operating systems configurations and equipment characteristics, utility software, and job control languages to activate, control, detect errors, and malfunctions. Examples of qualifying experience may have been gained in positions in the operation of a computer or peripheral device used in support of computer operations, computer related occupations that involve programming, systems analysis, production control, scheduling, knowledge of computer terminology, media and data flow, and preparing and interpreting program and system charts or other work requiring comparable knowledge of computer processing techniques.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-7 LEVEL: GS-7 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-6 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience with standard, optional, and precedent rules and procedures to isolate and resolve common equipment and operating problems on multiprocessing\multiprogramming computer systems; Using operating systems configurations and equipment characteristics, utility software, and job control languages to activate, control, monitor and test processing of production workloads, detect errors, and malfunctions. Examples of qualifying experience may have been gained in positions in the operation of a computer or peripheral device used in support of computer operations, computer related occupations that involve programming, systems analysis, production control, scheduling, knowledge of computer terminology, media and data flow, and preparing and interpreting program and system charts or other work requiring comparable knowledge of computer processing techniques.

AND

MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: For positions above the GS-05, applicants must meet applicable time-in-­grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the grade you are applying for.

AND

TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens".

For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your application includes your resume, responses to the online questions, and required supporting documents. Please be sure that your resume includes detailed information to support your qualifications for this position; failure to provide sufficient evidence in your resume may result in a "not qualified" determination.

Rating: Your application will be evaluated on the Critical Job Elements (CJE) of the position to be filled, in accordance with Article 13 of the IRS/NTEU National Agreement. Your application will also be rated and ranked among others, based on your responses to the online questions/assessment. Your experience, education, training, prior performance, and awards, relevant to the position being filled, will be considered throughout the hiring process. IRS employees may obtain most recent awards listing at https://persinfo.web.irs.gov/.

Referral: If you are among the top qualified candidates, your application may be referred to a selecting official for consideration. You may be required to participate in a selection interview (telephonic and/or in person at the discretion of the Selecting Official in accordance with hiring polices). We will not be reimburse costs related to the interview such as travel to and from the interview site.

If you are a displaced or surplus Federal employee eligible for Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), you must receive a score of 80 or better to be rated as well qualified to receive special selection priority.