This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR), Office of Grants, located in Washington, District of Columbia.

Duties

The Lead Information Technology Specialist performs the following duties: Serves as project lead for interagency work groups established to develop government-wide IT policy initiatives and solutions to critical issues. Makes recommendations and assessments of forecasted changes in technology and business requirements for the agency's long-range IT investment plans and strategies. Serves as a coach and facilitator in coordinating team initiatives and ensures that peers adhere to work priority deadlines. Serves as an expert authority and technical advisor in a Shared Services program area. Leads evaluations of the agency's business process and IT infrastructure to determine the feasibility of adopting and developing plans for implementing enterprise level applications. Formulates technical guidelines, concepts, specifications, and information management standards and policies. There are three positions available as listed below. Operations - Manage the operations, maintenance, and implementation services for the GrantSolutions shared service physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. Includes: monitoring systems, performance tuning, environments strategy, cost management, backup strategy, Continuity of Operations (COOP), connectivity, downtime resolution. Development - Lead development efforts for the GrantSolutions shared service. Apply business process analysis, requirements analysis, software development expertise, and grants management knowledge to oversee contractor development efforts. Customer Service - Lead and central point of contact for the grant applicant and Federal grant-awarding agency community and serve as liaison and advisor to the Grants.gov's program management office, contractor-supported help desk, the information technology contractor staff, and all grants community stakeholders.

Requirements

Qualifications

Your resume must include detailed information as it relates to the responsibilities and specialized experience for this position. Evidence of copying and pasting directly from the vacancy announcement without clearly documenting supplemental information to describe your experience will result in an ineligible rating. This will prevent you from receiving further consideration. To qualify for the position, you must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below: Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail. Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services. Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations. AND Specialized Experience GS-14: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the GS-13 level in the Federal service performing duties such as: Navigating difficult interactions as a result of issues such as organizational conflict, competing objectives, or resource problems; Providing support in systems development lifecycle phases; Conducting analysis of day-to-day operations using shared services information system architecture; Planning and implementing system builds and enhancements; Designing, developing, and managing systems that meet current and future business requirements to optimize the existing architecture; Providing technical advice, guidance, and recommendations. Time-in-grade: Current General Schedule (GS) federal employees, and those that have served in GS positions within the last 52 weeks, must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade, or a combination of the next lower grade level and an equivalent band in the federal service. Provide a copy of your last or most recent SF-50, "Notification of Personnel Action" to indicate your current federal status. You must also submit additional SF-50(s) to clearly demonstrate one year time-in-grade as required in the announcement. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate that you possess one year time-in-grade. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one year time-in-grade. Documenting experience: In accordance with Office of Personnel Management policy, federal employees are assumed to have gained experience by performing duties and responsibilities appropriate for their official series and grade level as described in their position description. Experience that would not normally be part of the employee's position is creditable, however, when documented by satisfactory evidence, such as a signed memorandum from the employee's supervisor or an SF-50 or SF-52 documenting an official detail or other official assignment. The documentation must indicate whether the duties were performed full time or, if part time, the "percentage of times" the other duties were performed. It is expected that this documentation is included in the employee's official personnel record. In order to receive credit for experience in your resume that is not within the official series and grade level of your official position, you must provide a copy of the appropriate documentation of such experience as indicated above. 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; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to gain employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. If such experience is on a part-time basis, you must provide the average number of hours worked per week as well as the beginning and ending dates of the experience so it can be fully credited.

Education

Contacts

• Address Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources 200 Independence Avenue Washington, DC 20201 US
• Name: OMHA Headquarters
• Email: [email protected]