Clarification from the agency

Open to all groups of qualified individuals. Current employees within the Federal civil service. SES reinstatement eligibles and SESCDP graduates may also apply for noncompetitive consideration.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The incumbent is principally responsible for working with the Director for the Division of Information and Solutions in the OG to oversee and optimize the operational aspects of the Division with robust, replicable, efficient governance to ensure systems operate optimally and in full compliance with applicable quality standards, and Federal statute, regulation, and guidance.

Ensures that Federal IT standards, as well as HHS accounting policies and procedures, and grant-related data standards are implemented throughout the Office's system and service portfolio, as appropriate, to enhance system performance and reliability for its customers.

Ensures that Federal IT development concepts and standards, as well as governing HHS policies and procedures are implemented throughout the Division's systems portfolio. Prioritizes development actions according to established criteria and ensures projects are on time, on budget, responsive to established requirements, and are subject to stringent quality controls. Ensures that the system is enhanced according to Departmental and Federal grant, financial assistance, and financial management regulations and policy requirements.

Maintains and/or seeks trusted expertise in modern software, techniques, and tools to sustain an environment of continuous improvement for optimized system and service delivery. Evaluates when and how improvement may be necessary and evaluates opportunities against key criteria such as benefit, cost, new requirements, efficiency, effectiveness, and equitable grant and program management practices.

Leads a sizeable team of resources, Federal and contracted, to achieve the objectives, goals, and project milestones of the work. Assesses the balance of Federal staff to vendor provided staff to achieve objectives. Creates the conditions for positive office culture, including expectations of cross-divisional information sharing, collaboration, and elimination of single points of failure. Responsible for recruiting, hiring, and retaining, as appropriate, the right Federal staff to maintain a best-in-class service.

Maintains ongoing, productive relationships with grantor agencies through proactive channels such as the partner services groups, executive steering groups, personal contacts, etc., as a critical component of being a mandatory and optional shared service provider.

Operates a highly complex fee-for-service model that fully recovers all operational, maintenance, and development costs. Has full command of vendor assumptions used to evaluate costs and creates sound, defensible methods of allocating those costs. Understands the complex funding environment at HHS and works to strategically assess funding sources such as annual appropriations, revolving and capital funds, and user fees, and justifies work to obtain needed funding.

Ensures integration and collaboration with other OG functions to align systems to grant policy, process, training, and grant systems/services marketplace requirements.

Conditions of employment

• This employer participates in the E-Verify Program
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Subject to satisfactory security and suitability determinations
• New appointees must successfully complete a 1-year probationary period
• This is a career position in the SES. Unless the selectee is already a member of the SES with career status or has successfully completed an SES Candidate Development Program certified by OPM.
• Executive qualifications must be approved by OPM before appointment can be affected. If you are selected, you will be responsible for working with an HHS Executive Consultant, or QRB Writer to develop an ECQ narrative for submission to OPM
• You must meet the qualification requirements of this position no later than the closing date of the job opportunity announcement.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement, applicants must demonstrate progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level managerial capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under the Mandatory/Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the equivalent of the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service or its equivalent with state and local government, the private sector, or non-governmental organizations. Failure to meet this basic qualification requirement and all executive and technical qualification factors will automatically exclude you from further consideration.

All competitive candidates for SES positions with the Federal Government must demonstrate leadership experience indicative of senior executive level management capability. To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show in your resume that you possess the Fundamental Competencies, five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs), and the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ's), listed below. It is recommended that your resume emphasize levels of responsibility, scope and complexity of programs managed, and program accomplishments and results.

Fundamental Competencies:

Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Written Communication, Continual Learning, and Public Service Motivation.

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs):

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.

Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ's):

This position also requires that you possess MTQ's that represent knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. The following MTQ's must be evident in your resume.

1. Experience leading in an IT shared service environment with multiple inter or intra-agency customers and partners, requiring extensive stakeholder management, which includes strategic communication responsibilities, deriving/justifying cost estimation and allocation models, and synthesizing the customer needs to develop or maintain products or platforms
2. Demonstrated experience with system modernization and or complex change management efforts affecting multiple partners and/or the public.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your resume (NOT TO EXCEED FIVE PAGES), demonstrating possession of the technical qualifications and achievement of the five executive core qualifications are the documents that will be used to determine your basic and specialized qualifications for the position. YOU MUST ADHERE TO THE PAGE LIMITS ABOVE AND INCLUDE BOTH DOCUMENTS OR YOU WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.