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This announcement has been amended to close on 10/02/2023 instead of 10/03/2023.
This position is located in the Office of Information Technology, Department of the Chief Operating Officer, in Washington, DC.
09/12/2023 to 10/02/2023
$132,371 - $155,042 per year
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1 vacancy in the following location:
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Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
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AC-23-095-12120582
748456000
Family members of a federal employee or uniformed service member who is or was, working overseas.
Current or former competitive service federal employees.
Current excepted service federal employees.
Certain current or former term or temporary federal employees of a land or base management agency.
Current members, those who want to join or transitioning military members.
Native Americans or Alaskan Natives with a tribal affiliation.
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
US Citizens and Status Candidates
The incumbent provides analytical and advisory functions related to IT strategic planning; compliance with laws, regulations, policies, standards, or procedures, IT compliance; In addition, the incumbent will apply a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess and improve IT project effectiveness and efficiency.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
IT Project Management
- Coordinating IT projects for program offices by documenting and interpreting customer requirements for new and existing systems and initiatives.
- Serving as a subject matter expert in IT project planning by developing and executing IT project acquisition plans to meet cost, schedule, and performance constraints.
- Serving as the subject matter expert for IT project management methodologies used to complete technical initiatives.
- Planning and managing the delivery of knowledge management projects.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to balance and prioritize services to meet overall customer requirements, constraints, and objectives.
- Conducting risk management; risk/issue identification, assessment, prioritization, mitigation and monitoring.
- Utilizing Project Management Institute (PMI) standards to manage all stages of a project (project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling, and closure).
- Developing detailed project management plans, tasks, schedules, and identifies milestone dates ensuring proper sequencing of events, work efforts, and resources needed to accomplish objectives.
- Planning and executing difficult and complex assignments and develop new methods, approaches and procedures.
- Leading work groups of subject matter experts through the planning, control and evaluation phases of an IT project.
- Implementing and maintaining quality assurance processes.
- Analyzing and identifying IT problems and provides recommendation for solutions and/or corrective actions.
- Performing cost/benefit and business case analysis to support IT investment decisions.
- Conducting audits/reviews of IT programs/projects to determine their effectiveness and advises IT management to inform decision making.
- Leading efforts to address problems, compliance matters and potential for application of new initiatives. - Working with managers, project leads, team leads, technical leads, task leads, customers, and users to define project/task scope and requirements.
- Serving as an OIT Customer Relations Manager to maintain customer-focused and transparent status of all assigned projects.
- Creating and maintaining formal project plans using tools like Microsoft Project, JIRA, agile and available enterprise tools.
- Tracking project schedules, resources, and scope to ensure successful completion of projects.
- Managing risks at the enterprise level by consolidating project risk registers used to identify, mitigate, and manage project risk.
- Managing the defining of current and future business environments, analyzes gaps, and developments plans for transitioning to the target state.
- Developing and giving briefings, reports, and presentations on all aspects of projects.
Information Technology program and policy effectiveness.
- Defining current and future business environments, analyzes gaps, and developments plans for transitioning to the target state.
- Integrating organizational input and documentation in developing the IT Plans and revises and maintains plans as required.
- Providing advice and guidance to managers in meeting strategic goals.
- Leading teams on broad planning studies impacting substantial IT resources.
- Analyzing program development and conducts studies to evaluate and determine IT requirements.
This job does not have an education qualification requirement; education may not be substituted for Specialized Experience at this grade level.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Additional Selections: Additional selections may be made from this announcement or for similar positions across AmeriCorps. By applying, you agree to have your application shared with interested selecting official(s) at AmeriCorps.
COVID-19: Vaccination against COVID-19 is not currently required for employment at AmeriCorps, but is encouraged to promote workplace health and safety. If you receive an official job offer and onboard, you will be contacted after onboarding regarding any requests for information related to your COVID-19 vaccination status.
Military Selective Service Act: If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/59 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
Veteran's Preference: If you are claiming 5-point or 10-point veteran's preference, you must submit documentation described below in "Required Documents."
Special Employment Consideration: Persons with disabilities, disabled veterans who have a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more, certain other veterans, spouses of certain members of the Armed Forces, VISTA volunteers, some Peace Corps employees and returning Peace Corps volunteers are examples of individuals who are potentially eligible for noncompetitive appointment. If you are eligible and would like to be considered for one of these noncompetitive appointments, applicable documentation that supports your eligibility must be submitted with your application package.
Ethics Requirement: Our Agency is committed to the highest ethical standards and, as an employee you will be covered by the criminal conflict of interest statutes (18 U.S.C. 201-209) and the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch (5 C.F.R. part 2635). Additionally, you may be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) or Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e) within 30 days of your appointment date and on an annual basis thereafter.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your application will be evaluated first for the basic qualifications described above. The applications that meet the basic qualifications will be evaluated further against the following criteria:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire, which is available to preview here https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12120582, along with submitting the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on 10/02/2023.
Once the occupational questionnaire is received, you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful, however, you must also include a resume and any other documents that are applicable to you under the "Required Documents" section of this vacancy announcement. After a review of your complete application is made, you will be notified of your status via email. Please be aware that emails could reside in your "junk," "bulk," or "spam" mail folder, depending on your filters. You will be notified of the final outcome.
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