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Duties

WHAT IS THE LBI - Large Business and InternationalDIVISION? 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: Large Business and International, Director Eastern Compliance, DFO Engineering 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 a technical appraiser expert on designated appraisal and valuation issues and provides advice that may impact tax compliance strategy and the examination program. Facilitates, coordinates and provides collaboration in the support of the identification, development, and resolution of appraisal and valuation issues. Exercises significant responsibility in the planning, directing, and coordinating of engineering activities, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review, and deadlines and time frames for completion. Serves as coach and mentor to team by leveraging technical expertise and audit techniques and experience appropriate for certain areas of issue specialization. Participates in issue specific special project teams and treatment streams, including the development and delivery of training and facilitating issue specific network calls to the larger LB&I community. Oversees and/or provides support for the development of knowledge management tools content to ensure the information conforms with IRS technical guidance and direction. Performs a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to identify, assess, analyze, and improve team dynamics, effectiveness, efficiency, and work products. Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work and coordinates the preparation, presentation and communication related to the progress of the team to appropriate internal and external stakeholders. Provides advanced appraisal feedback, technical expertise, and recommendations with multiple stakeholders and senior-level audiences. May be assigned projects involving the development and delivery of new work practices and training programs. May testify in court as an expert witness. Collaborates and communicates frequently to discuss guidance and new approaches to emerging or existing issues. Ensures that the IRS's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated and integrated into the organization's goals, work products, and services.

Requirements

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-14 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience must demonstrate mastery of appraisal principles and concepts needed to serve as a technical authority, where you will be required to analyze and evaluate newly emerging valuation theories to establish conformity with Service policies and industry standards; Comprehensive knowledge of tax laws, regulations, rulings, and court decisions and ability to interpret law and apply it to new valuation issues which are controversial and potentially precedent setting and to reach conclusions where guidelines are unclear, conflicting or often non-existent and where determinations may affect widespread segments of taxpayers, industries and communities and involve intense public and legal scrutiny; Experience providing expertise to government attorneys on cases with probable litigation potential; Experience applying extensive knowledge to an extremely broad range of properties, interests and issues of the most complex nature and unique characteristics such as; hospitals, universities, parks, racetracks, oil tank farms, as well as holdings in banking, brokerage and insurance industries, large and foreign controlled corporations, REITs (real estate investment trusts), and large multi-million dollar estate portfolios of prominent individuals; Problems often include: conflicting uses, complex legal problems, and structured agreements and financing arrangements between multiple related entities which disguise the substance of issues. At this level, you must demonstrate experience devising innovative methods and techniques for estimating the value of properties with unique and complex characteristics and resolving conflicts. AND 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. AND 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 LBI - Director Eastern Compliance 1111 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20224 US
• Name: (ERC) Employee Resource Center
• Phone: 866-743-5748