Clarification from the agency

Applications will be accepted from all groups of qualified individuals.

The incumbent of this position serves as the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and, as such, is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office on the application of information technology (IT) to improve business processes. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) works collaboratively across the USPTO Enterprise to build strategic partnerships with senior leadership to ensure deliverables meet the mission and initiatives of the agency. 
 
Specifically, the incumbent provides leadership and management to the following areas:

IT Strategic Planning

IT Organizational Workforce Leadership and Management

Capital Planning and Investment Management for Information Technology and Related Initiatives

Information Security

Enterprise Architecture

IT Systems Acquisition, Modernization, Integration and Delivery

IT Infrastructure and Systems Operation, Maintenance and End User Support

E-government and Other Automation Initiatives

Information Collection and Paperwork Reduction

Information Dissemination

Records Management

Privacy Protection

IT Stakeholder and Customer Experience Excellence

 

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Be willing to relocate to the Washington, DC metro region.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Clearance.
• Required to pass a background investigation and fingerprint check.
• Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-278) will be required upon appointment.
• Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov)

Before entering on duty, you will be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-278. You will need to provide the information annually.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must be able to demonstrate either in your application or during the interview that you possess all of the mandatory Executive Core Qualifications and Professional/Technical Qualifications described below. These qualifications would typically be acquired through education, experience, and training which reflect progressive development and executive potential. An individual's total experience and education must demonstrate possession of the executive core and professional/technical qualifications to perform the duties of this position. Applicants must meet all of the qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Experience must have been at a sufficiently high level of difficulty to clearly show that the candidate possesses the required professional/technical qualifications and executive core qualifications set forth below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Professional Technical Qualifications: Applicants must clearly demonstrate in their application materials that they possess technical attributes in the Professional/Technical Qualifications (PTQs).
 
The Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) for this position are:

1. Demonstrated leadership ability to lead and manage a large, diverse, and multi-functional technical organization which includes both government employees and a large contractor workforce.

2. Demonstrated ability and expert knowledge of enterprise-wide information technology operations, programs and projects including data center operations, distributed digital voice and data networks, capacity and performance management, help desk operations, service level agreement management and reporting, configuration management, and change control.

3. Expert knowledge of and demonstrated experience in strategic and tactical information technology planning to implement state-of-the-art information processing and other emerging technologies such as collaboration tools, service oriented architecture, Internet, Intranet, extranet, multimedia, and mobile computing, and security management tools.

4. Expert knowledge of and demonstrated experience in software engineering to include AIS lifecycle management technologies, system development and delivery, requirements management, quality assurance, configuration and metrics, program and project management, and customer experience excellence.

The Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) for this position are:

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.

2. Leading People - This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's 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.
 
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.

4. Business Acumen - This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically.

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.

Please Note: Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program graduates who have been certified by OPM, only need to submit a resume and narrative statement covering each of the Professional Technical Qualification (PTQs) requirements and do NOT need to address the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).

Responses to the ECQs are not required at this time. However, if selected for this position, you will be required to provide narrative responses to the ECQs which will be submitted to OPM's Qualifications Review Board (QRB) for approval.

For more information about the Executive Core Qualifications please visit this site: : https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/reference-materials/guidetosesquals_2012.pdf

How you will be evaluated

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

Your eligibility for consideration and qualifications for the position will be determined based upon a review of your application. Applicants are encouraged to include in their resume, clear and concise examples of activities or tasks undertaken that shows the scope and quality of work experience, accomplishments, and/or executive potential. Your application will be evaluated by a rating and ranking panel, and highly qualified candidates will be submitted to the Selecting Official for further review and consideration.