Job opening: IT Program Manager
Salary: $122 198 - 186 629 per year
Published at: Dec 26 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
WHAT IS THE TEGE- Tax Exempt and Government Entities 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:
Tax Exempt and Government Entities HQ, Shared Services, Business Systems Planning, Modernization & Data Solutions
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.
Plans, leads, coordinates, communicates, integrates, evaluates, and is accountable for the overall success of the information technology program, ensuring alignment with critical strategic objectives and agency priorities.
Ensures the work efforts achieve the outcome specified within the agency's business and information technology strategies, including appropriate strategic, life-cycle management, and capital IT investment plans. Work includes project selection, prioritization, evaluation and monitoring, cost schedule management, risk management, quality management and resource allocations. Manages the execution of all planning, marketing, budget development and execution, customer support, acquisition, and contractual activities associated with the Program(s) to include acquisition planning, preparing Statements of Work, and requests for proposals and information.
Responsible for cost estimating, planning and programming, budgeting, program integration, developing lifecycle documentation, and overseeing of assigned projects associated with the program. Orchestrates source selection efforts and approves deliverables. Evaluates contractor/vendor performance in research, testing and analysis, design and development, quality improvement, risk management, sustainment, and life-cycle management activities as they relate to IRS IT program(s) and the project(s) led by the incumbent.
Identifies customers' information systems requirements; analyzes information systems; and manages analytical studies and cost-benefit analyses. Monitors compliance with laws, regulations, policies, standards, and procedures. Reviews options to contracts for IT services, equipment, or other items. Manages the integration of information systems subsystems; develops information systems testing strategies, plans, or scenarios; and identifies standards and/or requirements for infrastructure configuration.
Keeps informed on current developments and on new applications of information technology (hardware, software, and telecommunications), emerging technologies and their applications to business processes, and applications and implementation of information systems to meet organizational 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:
SPECIALZIED EXPERIENCE GS-14 LEVEL: To be eligible for this position at this grade level, you must meet the requirements below. You must have one 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: Demonstrated accomplishment of computer project assignments that required a wide range of knowledge of computer requirements and techniques pertinent to the position to be filled. This knowledge is generally demonstrated through assignments that required the ability to analyze a number of alternative approaches in the process of advising management concerning major aspects of IT system design. This would include defining what system interrelationships must be considered, or what operating mode, system software, and/or equipment configuration is most appropriate for a given project. At this level, you must demonstrate knowledge of and skill in applying expert project management knowledge, and the ability to lead projects, which includes but not limited to addressing methods, metrics, tools, and techniques of business process reengineering, contracting and/or procurement, and contract negotiation and administration; ability working with cost-benefit analysis methods, achievement strategies, tools of quality assurance and quality control; expert knowledge of the architecture and typology of software, hardware, networks, and systems life cycle management. Your experience should also include skills in leadership and teambuilding, decision making, reasoning, and problem solving.
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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 (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or
here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
Contacts
- Address TEGE - Headquarters
1111 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20224
US
- Name: (ERC) Employee Resource Center
- Phone: 866-743-5748