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Duties

WHAT IS THE HUMAN CAPITAL OFFICE 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: Human Capital Office Front Office- COS The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. Serves as a lead or principal team member in planning, organizing, and directing team efforts in conducting individual studies of major programs to develop the annual assessment plans, schedule, and implement internal control standard operating procedures. Prepares and assists in developing new assessment guide that contains detailed assessment methodologies and project milestones designed to determine compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies/procedures, effectiveness of internal control, and management of risks in human capital programs. Meets with top-level managers and executives within the Service to define risks challenges to programs and socialize annual assessment plan/schedule. May provide technical oversight, direction, training, and guidance to lower graded team members and managers in serviced organizations. Plans and carries out independent assessments to manage HCO compliance and risk management program to reduce risk and improve compliance within the operations. Performs comprehensive reviews, process mapping and execute program analyses to evaluate and assess program/project effectiveness and provide recommendations to rectifies significant and high-risk areas, potential program issues and problems. Identifies actual or potential performance problems, emerging patterns, and new developments. Researches applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures on human capital programs operations. Identifies and responding to risks and assessing the effectiveness of the system of internal controls in human capital programs. Gathers and documents sufficient, competent, and relevant information and data to provide the basis for assessment conclusions. Develops and employs innovative analytical techniques to assess the efficiency, effectiveness of human capital program operations. Conducts root-cause analysis on the observations of non-compliance with laws, regulations, and policies and procedures and ineffective program operations. Conducts independent quality review of comprehensive assessment reports to ensure conclusions reached are fully supported by evidence collected and analysis performed. Prepares written internal comprehensive assessment reports and/or conduct verbal briefings for top-level managers and executives within HCO and across the IRS that clearly and concisely communicate the issues and program improvements identified in the assessment and includes recommendations that influences program decisions and/or improve business entity's processes and controls which persuade HCO to implement the recommendations from the audit results and assessment. This position has career progression. If you are selected at a grade level lower than the full working level, you may be non-competitively promoted as your career progresses. For example, you may be hired as a GS-05, but if the position has career progression to GS-11, then you may move from a GS-05 to a GS-11 in as little as three years.

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-timework 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 (1) 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 in the planning, conducting, and reporting on independent analytical study and assessment that evaluates the efficiency, effectiveness, risk, and compliance of federal human resource programs. Experience in executing the assessment guide with detailed assessment methodologies, collaborating with managers and program owners to define risks and challenges in federal (or other) human resource program operations, and conducting root-cause analysis on observations of non-compliance or ineffective program operations. Experience applying a wide range of human resources (HR) laws, regulations, compliance, policies, and precedents and knowledge of HR principles, practices, and procedures to assess program compliance. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR GS-13: You must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience leading small teams in the planning, conducting, and reporting on independent analytical study and assessment that evaluates the efficiency, effectiveness, and legal and regulatory compliance of federal (or other) human resource management systems and transactions. Experience in providing technical oversight, direction, training, and guidance to team members, planning and carrying out independent assessments of federal (or other) human resources program operations, preparing written comprehensive assessment reports, and briefing top-level management on assessment results. Experience applying a wide range of human resources (HR) laws, regulations, compliance, policies, and precedents and knowledge of HR principles, practices, and procedures sufficient to provide comprehensive HR advisory services to management and assess program compliance. AND TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENTS: Under merit promotion procedures, applicants must satisfy time-in-grade requirements contained in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. Time is credited based on calendar time served in a grade, regardless of the number of days or hours worked. 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

For positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying for this position by substituting education or training for experience, submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. An official transcript will be required if you are selected.
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 HCO - Deputy HCO - Office of HCO Chief of Staff 1111 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20224 US
• Name: IRS Memphis External
• Email: [email protected]