Job opening: Program Analyst
Salary: $86 300 - 122 459 per year
Published at: Nov 13 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
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
Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
Wage and Investment Service Centers; Andover Accounts Management, Baltimore or Richmond Call Site
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position.
Serves as the resident expert on telephone performance objectives and indicators. Provides analysis of performance indicators and objectives such as Services Provided, Handle Time, Average Handle Time (AHT), Available Time and Transfer Data. Identifies improvement opportunities and recommends solutions in response to performance deficits.
Analyzes adherence to schedule by application and makes recommendations to management regarding improvement opportunities, such as the need to balance competing workloads or change tours of duty.
Takes an active role in creating and developing the Fiscal Year Work Plan and period schedules for the operations. Analyzes workflow issues, projects staffing needs, and advises management on work plan and scheduling issues. The Systems Administrator also provides technical and administrative support to lower graded systems analysts and all levels of management within the call site.
Provides input to management as to budgetary requirements for toll-free telephone systems.
Performs special studies and prepares oral and/or written briefings to managers on findings. Ensures that controls are responded to in a timely manner.
Ensures that management has the necessary information to evaluate call site performance and make informed staffing decisions. Ensures that managers are familiar with and have access to reports via available sources such as Enterprise Telephone Data (ETD) and Custom View. Ensures that all levels of management are informed as to available data sources to monitor and assess site performance, as such conducts training classes and coaches managers on automated systems and reports.
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-12 LEVEL: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience with the design, operation and capabilities of a computerized Unified Contact Center Environment (UCCE) telephone system operation; Experience with systems and software to assist in producing the requisite reports needed to support management tracking and decision making; Experience with Accounts Management (AM) work processes, programs, functions, error trends, and day-to-day workflow; Experience with oral and written communications techniques to assist in the preparation of routine responses for Operations' management and to coordinate data and information; and Experience with Aceyus, Verint, eWFM, AMS and RTA. Experience with extracting and interpreting raw data from various database information systems to write queries and formulas for various reports for senior level management.
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MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks.
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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.
Education
A copy of your transcripts or equivalent documentation is required for positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience. An official transcript will be required if you are selected. If the position has specific education requirements and you currently hold, or have previously held, a position in the same job series with the IRS, there is no need to submit a transcript or equivalent at this time. Applicants are encouraged, but are not required, to submit an SF-50 documenting experience in a specific series.
A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to
Department of Education Accreditation page.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click
here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
Contacts
- Address WI SC - Accounts Management - Andover
1111 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20224
US
- Name: (ERC) Employee Resource Center
- Phone: 866-743-5748