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WHAT IS DATA AND ANALYTICS?

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):
  
  • DAO - Statistics of Income

• This job (or announcement) is open to current permanent IRS competitive service employees in Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics business units.

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Duties

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General Manager Duties:

As a Senior Manager you will:

• Exercise delegated managerial authority to oversee the overall planning, directing and timely execution of a program, several program segments (each of which is managed through separate subordinate organizational units), or comparable staff functions, including development, assignment, and higher level clearance of goals and objectives for supervisors or managers of subordinate organizational unit or lower organizational levels.
• Approve multi year and longer range work plans developed by the supervisors or managers of subordinate organizational units and subsequently manage the overall work to enhance achievement of the goals and objectives.
• Oversee the revision of long range plans, goals and objectives for the work directed.
• Manage the development of policy changes in response to changes in levels of appropriations or other legislated changes.
• Manage organizational changes throughout the organization directed or major change to the structure and content of the program or program segments directed.
• Exercise discretionary authority to approve the allocation and distribution of funds in the organizations budget.

The following are the job specific duties of this position. You will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position.

• Manage complex projects and programs that deliver data-driven solutions to various IRS program areas. Oversee the identification and application of a range of analytical methods and techniques suitable to each research question.
• Provide guidance to subordinate employees in conducting research, analyzing data, solving complex issues such as identifying noncompliance, estimating taxpayer burden, and evaluating taxpayer service channels.
• Provide data-driven insights to improve the taxpayer experience, tax compliance, and enterprise operations.
• Make recommendations to top officials regarding opportunities to improve IRS administrative processes to reduce cost and improve the taxpayer experience based on insights gathered from subordinates' technical analyses.
• Coordinate closely with Business Units to identify and implement solutions based on sound research principles. Ensure consistency across different analyses conducted throughout the IRS. Provide practitioners, industry stakeholders, and government agencies with accurate, timely, and unbiased data needed to make far-reaching economic and business decisions.

STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD24512

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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.
• Supervisory Probationary Period - Subject to a 1-year supervisory or managerial probationary period (unless already completed).
• 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.

You must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the next lower level within the pay band or GS grade in the normal line of progression in the Federal service that demonstrates the required managerial skills and technical competence required to perform the job. To be qualified for this position your experience must include:

• Demonstrated management/leadership experience such as applying management techniques, methods, theories, principles, or labor relations concepts for the accomplishment of all program objectives with combined technical and administrative oversight.
• Experience may have been gained through work experience as a project/program manager, team lead or project/program lead, technical advisor, or senior specialist/analyst that included managing resources, providing support to managers, mentoring team members, providing day-to-day guidance training and/or oversight of peers or others.
• Applying regulations, other official guidance and principles, including the latest procedures and techniques sufficient to oversee the planning, development, and implementation of the technical aspects of programs specific to the position being filled.
• Applying data driven insights to make recommendations for leadership to improve administrative process, reduce cost, and improve tax payer experience
• Experience applying knowledge of Internal Revenue Code and related laws, court decisions, regulations, and precedent rulings as they pertain to Federal, State, and Local Governments.
• Applying knowledge of the theories, concepts, principle methods and program management, resource tracking and resource utilization

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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".

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

Go to Understanding the IRS Paybands for GS/IR conversion.

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

• Consider each location carefully when applying. If you are selected for a location, that location will become your official post of duty.
• 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: IRS (IR) Pay Band Locality Pay tables may be found under 2026 - IR Salary Tables.

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Benefits

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