Clarification from the agency

All groups of qualified individuals.

The incumbent is responsible for all administrative, financial, human capital and technical sufficiency aspects for the FSC. Serves as voting member of the FSC Executive Suite and is the senior IT leader overseeing all IT work at the FSC including data security, technology infrastructure, systems and applications, and IT-related strategic decisions that impact future FSC business opportunities. The responsibilities include, but not limited to:

-The incumbent serves as the FSC's senior expert, leader, advisor, planner, and strategist for VA's Information Technology Services including physical and virtual infrastructure; operating systems, software platforms, web applications, databases, storage management; and establishes the organization structure of the FSC Information Technology team, identifying roles, responsibilities, and staffing positions.

-The incumbent manages staffing, budgeting, development, design, security and integration of multi-site software application development operations; develops cost effective alternatives for application delivery for all enterprise software systems applications; provide ongoing staff professional training and development and strategic use of outside partners, including other government and commercial entities.

-The incumbent develops software development policy, processing and procedure to govern systems software application development/purchase; develop procedures to ensure information application systems reliability and accessibility and to prevent and defend against unauthorized access to software application systems and data; and manage and integrates technical and performance requirements in order to measure and evaluate systems performance and total cost of ownership, driven by new business applications.

-The incumbent oversees the formulation of standards for information integrity; interoperability, and customer usability as measurements of the quality of the system-wide product line and its manufacturing process, and serves as the process owner and subject matter expert (SME) for FSC applications and incident root cause analysis and develops improvements.

-The incumbent identifies, evaluates, and executes future and emerging IT technologies, strategically identifies future best practices and procedures to improve effective and efficient use of financial, human resources, IT services, space, equipment, and supplies needed for FSC to integrate IT platforms throughout the VA sites across the country.

Conditions of employment

• US citizenship is required.
• One year probationary period required for initial SES appointment.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Incumbents of this position will be subject to a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.
• Successful completion of drug screening required.
• Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278) is required.
• May be subject to reassignment geographically or organizationally.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicants must possess the following technical and executive core qualifications. These qualifications would typically be gained through progressively responsible management or executive level assignments such as director of a regional office, medical facility or program manager. An individual's total experience, education and volunteer work experience must demonstrate the ability to perform the duties of the position.

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.

MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative response to each of the following ECQs and include your name on each page.. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately. Additional information on ECQs is available at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/. Applicants are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Results model outlined in the guide. It is recommended that you draft your ECQs in a Word document and then upload into the system.

1. Leading Change: 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: 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: 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: The ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically.

5. Building Coalitions: 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.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: In addition, all applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following specific TQ(s). Please label and include your name on each page. Please give examples and explain how often you used your skills, the complexity of the knowledge possessed, the level of people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled managing a large public or private sector organization that administers complex, rules-based benefits or services, etc. It is recommended that you draft your TQ(s) in a word document and then upload into the system.

TQ1: Demonstrated substantial experience managing a large and complex information technology organization with responsibilities including project management, software development, and IT operations.

How you will be evaluated

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

Step 1: ECQ qualifications

Step 2: Technical Qualification(s)

Step 3: VA Executive Resources Board

Step 4: Nominating Organization may conduct interviews

Step 5: Approval by the Selecting Official (may include additional screening)

Step 6: OPM Qualifications Review Board certification