What are the responsibilities and job description for the Computer Assistant position at U.S. Department of the Treasury?
Duties
WHAT IS THE TAXPAYER SERVICESDIVISION?
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
Taxpayer Services - CARE (Customer Assistance Relationship Education), Correspondence Production Services Central
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.
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Requirements
Conditions of Employment
Standard Position Descriptions (spd)
PD92444, PD92445, and PD92160
Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions
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-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.
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-08 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience working with the features, characteristics, and interrelationships of multiple types of computer equipment, internal computer processes, applications and utility programs, and magnetic media; Experience using wide range of analytical and diagnostic methods, procedures, and principles to identify required actions and implement decisions; Experience working with data content and output options used in coding, developing control streams and schedules for independent and interdependent programs, or multi-program operating systems.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-09 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-08 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience working with the features, characteristics, and interrelationships of multiple types of computer equipment, internal computer processes, applications and utility programs, and magnetic media; Experience using a wide range of analytical and diagnostic methods and procedures to identify required actions and implement decisions; Experience working with data content and output options used in coding, developing control streams and schedules for independent and interdependent programs, or multi-program operating systems; Experience analyzing data to identify problems encountered on major computer systems and the hardware/software programs monitored and experience in coordination, control, scheduling, and direct operational support for several large capacity computer systems.
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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 for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
Additional information
WHAT IS THE TAXPAYER SERVICESDIVISION?
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
Taxpayer Services - CARE (Customer Assistance Relationship Education), Correspondence Production Services Central
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.
- Plans, schedules, and controls the processing of tax data on major corporate and departmental computer systems.
- Analyzes and evaluates requirements for computer processing by identifying work flow and sequence equipment and capacity requirements, and job interrelationships.
- Reviews system reports and logs to identify scheduling conflicts, processing problems, or job failures and determines corrective action. Ensures correct restoration of data files and data bases at the proper restart point.
- Receives program additions, deletions and changes from programmers and various external sources. Evaluates systems change requests to determine modifications to existing set-ups, schedules, run streams, and dependencies with other systems and programs.
- May serve as OJT or formal classroom instructor.
Help
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
Standard Position Descriptions (spd)
PD92444, PD92445, and PD92160
Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions
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-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.
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-08 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience working with the features, characteristics, and interrelationships of multiple types of computer equipment, internal computer processes, applications and utility programs, and magnetic media; Experience using wide range of analytical and diagnostic methods, procedures, and principles to identify required actions and implement decisions; Experience working with data content and output options used in coding, developing control streams and schedules for independent and interdependent programs, or multi-program operating systems.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-09 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-08 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience working with the features, characteristics, and interrelationships of multiple types of computer equipment, internal computer processes, applications and utility programs, and magnetic media; Experience using a wide range of analytical and diagnostic methods and procedures to identify required actions and implement decisions; Experience working with data content and output options used in coding, developing control streams and schedules for independent and interdependent programs, or multi-program operating systems; Experience analyzing data to identify problems encountered on major computer systems and the hardware/software programs monitored and experience in coordination, control, scheduling, and direct operational support for several large capacity computer systems.
AND
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.
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
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 for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
Additional information
- We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies. Additional jobs may be filled.
- The salary range indicated in this announcement reflects the minimum locality pay up to maximum locality pay for all duty locations listed. The range will be adjusted for selected duty location. General Schedule locality pay tables may be found under Salaries & Wages.
- This is a bargaining unit position.
- Tour of Duty: Monday-Friday Swing Shift - 2:30pm-11:00pm
- May be required to work holidays and weekends, depending on the workload.
- In the event that a building is closed due to rent management, new hires may be placed in a local commuting location.
- Season is from 8 to 10 months. Employees who work a seasonal work schedule are placed in non-pay status or recalled to duty as workload or budget dictates and in accordance with their seasonal employment agreement.
- Relocation expenses - none..
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