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Duties

The Office of Division Counsel (Litigation & Advisory) (L&A) provides legal services for the Internal Revenue Service Large Business and International (LB&I) and Small Business/Self Employed (SB/SE) Divisions on tax matters, legal issues, regulations, and needs relevant to individuals filing Schedules C, E, F, and Form 2106, subchapter C corporations, subchapter S corporations, partnerships, estates, and trusts. The Office of Division Counsel L&A is a nationwide organization headquartered in Washington, DC, divided into seven geographic areas and one nationwide strategic advisory function. Each Area is responsible for legal work within a defined geographic group. We work with complicated issues of tax law and accounting principles in the context of an expanding global environment. L&A employs over 1,100 attorneys and paralegals nationwide, who provide a full range of legal services on all issues, including advising LB&I and SB/SE compliance agents, handling litigation in the U.S. Tax Court and referring and recommending litigation to the Department of Justice. As an Administrative Officer you will: Provide advice, guidance, and expert level assistance to Area/ Strategic Advisory Executives and Managers on all matters related to the coordination, integration, and synchronization of administrative actions. Analyze workflow, determine problem areas, develop guidelines, and provide advice and assistance to the Executives, Management Officials, and Analysts in the Division on all phases of administrative management, providing solutions to problems arising in connection with the operating policies, programs, workloads, staffing, and other managerial concerns. Coordinate and monitor tracking process for personnel, performance, staffing-related forms, documents, files, and reports. Analyze tracking systems and implement changes to streamline processes, improve efficiency and timeliness or personnel functions. Handle and advise on a wide variety of other administrative assignments in support of L&A Area/SA executives and managers. Examples include overseeing the maintenance of personnel records, initiating personnel actions, travel and event planning, report generation and compilation, digital and paper records management, space management, procurement, and data call responses. Act as Area liaison for the administrative aspect of hiring and onboarding functions. Work directly with HQ team members and assigned L&A Areas to coordinate applications and interviews, conduct candidate outreach; extract candidate application material from staffing software; draft selection memos for hiring officials. Coordinate movement of internal employees between Areas and/or PODs. Serve as the Area/SA expert on the design, development, implementation of Area/SA specific SharePoint sites. Conduct continual/real time maintenance of Area/SA specific sites, ensuring that sites provide efficient and effective tracking of data and information. Prepare, process and track appropriate reports on programs and systems management. Oversee Area and/or Strategic Advisory case reports and Agency requested case data reports, act as the point of contact between Field Executives, L&A Headquarters, Program and Management Analysts, and various Headquarters offices throughout Chief Counsel, including suspense report deadlines, employee case inventory reviews, and case data and case status input accuracy. Represent Area/SA Executives and Managers at administrative and operational meetings conducted by Headquarters Program and Management Analysts, and other Headquarters Staff Officials. This is not an all-inclusive list.

Requirements

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• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See "Required Documents" for a list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Career Transition Assistance ProgramCurrent Chief Counsel Employee To qualify for this position of Administrative Officer, you must meet the experience requirements detailed below by the closing date of this announcement. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. For GS-12: Specialized Experience: Your resume must detail at least one year of specialized experience which includes: Conducting administrative and/or case management studies and/or surveys and recommending corrective action; providing guidance and recommendations on matters relating to personnel issues; providing guidance on and applying administrative, operational and office policies, procedures, and regulations; managing fiscal resources. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. 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; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. 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. Time in Grade Requirement for GS-12: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Office of Chief Counsel, IRS Staffing and Classification Branch 1111 Constitution Ave, NW Washington, DC 20224 US
• Name: Laura Onan
• Phone: 469-801-1031
• Email: [email protected]