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WHAT IS Facilities Management and Security Services?

A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

• Position(s) are to be filled in following area(s):
  
  • Facilities Management and Security Services

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Duties

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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 the principal Executive Advisor to the Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services (FMSS), providing authoritative advice, guidance, analysis, and executive decision support on the organization's most significant, sensitive, unprecedented, and complex short- and long-range issues affecting IRS properties nationwide and involving significant decisions concerning the commitment and expenditure of FMSS and IRS budget and resources. Independently evaluates enterprise-wide initiatives, emerging issues, operational risks, organizational performance, and strategic priorities affecting facilities management, physical security, engineering, environmental health and safety, financial management, real property, space management, project management, logistics, and related mission support functions. Integrates information, recommendations, and perspectives from multiple organizational components into comprehensive executive analyses that identify impacts, alternatives, dependencies, risks, and implementation considerations.
• Develops executive briefing materials, decision memoranda, strategic assessments, business unit guidance, and recommendations to support informed executive decision-making. Anticipates issues requiring executive attention, identifies cross-functional implications that impact or change how IRS programs throughout other business units are operated or delivered, and ensures the Chief receives timely, accurate, and comprehensive information necessary to establish organizational priorities and make informed decisions.
• The incumbent is responsible for providing detailed advice on controversial or highly visible issues that also have the attention of top level executive leadership in other business units, at Treasury, in state or local governments, in Congress, from federal oversight agencies, from public interest groups, and/or in the media; or, if overlooked, would significantly detract from the IRS's mission and reputation with these groups and with the public as a whole.
• Coordinates the planning, execution, and monitoring of executive initiatives, organizational priorities, and cross-functional activities directed by the Chief that affect multiple FMSS organizations and nationwide operations, and impact direct access by taxpayers to IRS facilities and services, as well as IRS's public face and reputation.
• Serves as the Chief's principal integrator among Directors, senior managers, program officials, Treasury representatives, and external stakeholders to facilitate communication, resolve coordination issues, and promote consistent execution of executive priorities.

STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD26621

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Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Probationary Period - A person who is required to go through a probationary period and then is transferred, promoted, demoted, or reassigned before he or she completes such period is required to complete the remainder of the probationary period in the new position.

• Government Credit Card - Obtain and use a Government-issued charge card for business-related travel.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS SHOWN IN QUALIFICATIONS SECTION

Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or through 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/day/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.

QUALIFICATION REQUIRMENTS: To qualify for this position, you must meet the qualification requirements outlined below:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-15: To be eligible for this position, you must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized experience includes:

• Experience analyzing and synthesizing information from multiple sources to identify organizational issues, trends, risks, dependencies, impacts, and courses of action.
• Experience conducting organizational studies and assessments involving multiple functional areas and developing findings, alternatives, and recommendations to support management decision-making.
• Experience evaluating organizational programs, initiatives, and operations to assess effectiveness, performance, implementation progress, systemic issues, and improvement needs.
• Experience interpreting, integrating, and applying Federal laws, regulations, policies, directives, and management guidance to address organizational and program issues.
• Experience assessing resource implications, operational impacts, implementation challenges, organizational risks, and potential consequences associated with proposed actions and program decisions.
• Experience planning and coordinating projects, studies, and organizational initiatives involving multiple organizations or functional areas, competing priorities, and interdependent requirements.

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You must also meet the following requirement(s):

• TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT (TACA): 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"
• TIME IN GRADE (TIG): For positions above the GS-05,applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the grade you are applying for. For positions at the GS-05, you cannot advance to the GS-05 if you have held a GS-02 in the past 52 weeks. There is no TIG restriction for GS-02, 03 or 04 positions.

For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

Education

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.

We recommend choosing an evaluator from a member organization of one of the following national associations of credential evaluation services: National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE).

Additional information

• In the event that a building is closed due to rent management, new hires may be placed in a local commuting location.
• Additional jobs may be filled from this announcement or any other source to fill these vacancies.
• Alternative work schedule, staggered work hours may be available.
• Salary: General Schedule (GS) Locality Pay tables may be found under Salaries & Wages.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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