Duties

Summary

This position is located in the Office of External Affairs, Department of the Chief Executive Officers, in Washington, DC. The Drupal Developer will support website operations and maintenance (O&M), enhancement support for websites implemented in Drupal, or architecture and development for new Drupal websites and functionality.

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Responsibilities

The incumbent for this position will perform the following duties and responsibilities:

• Maintaining, administering, and customizing Drupal modules/sites/themes.
• Deploying/testing/Drupal code in correlation with OIT team.
• Design new UI solutions that enhance the existing theme.
• Debugging cross-browser compatibility issues.
• Using industry/W3C standards for the web development.
• Coding in HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript & jQuery within the existing Drupal installation and template overrides for splash page campaigns.
• Translating requirements/specifications into quality web apps.
• Using source control tools (GitHub, Subversion, Sourcetree, Acquia etc.).
• Understanding Federal web development standards as well as Federal information system requirements.
• Working with SQL and relational databases generally, MySQL specifically.
• Customizing SEO for optimized user experience.
• Working in Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager.
• Maintain datasets and create visualizations in the Socrata data platform.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Supports the web content manager when needed to review and proof web copy for format, style, grammar, spelling, readability, and accuracy.
• Supports the web content manager when needed to make content changes and edits as necessary, fixes broken links or outdated content.
• Analyzing and solving difficult problems using logic and tenacity.
• Working effectively in a team environment with OEA colleagues, the OIT web services team, and web hosting contractors.

Travel Required

Not required

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
3

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• You must be a United States Citizen
• A 2-year probationary period is required for new Federal employees
• Merit Promotion applicants must submit a SF-50 to verify Status and grade
• Must be telework ready
• Satisfactory completion of a background investigation

Qualifications

Applicants must have one year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to at least the mid-range of the NY-02 pay band, which would be at or equivalent to, the GS-11 level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is that which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience includes work experience developing within content management systems, preferably Drupal 7/8, UI/UX design; testing and modifying Drupal or other CMS (and HTML5) themes and style-sheets (CSS) to ensure consistent display in all major browsers; creates customized web parts using Adobe or other design software; and skill developing and delivering technical and operational plans, briefings and training.

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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Such experience must be clearly documented in the applicant's resume.

Education

Education is not substituted for specialized experience.

Additional information

Selective Service: If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/59 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.

Veteran's Preference: If you are claiming 5-point or 10-point veteran's preference, you must submit documentation described below in "Required Documents."

Special Employment Consideration: Persons with disabilities, disabled veterans who have a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more, certain other veterans, spouses of certain members of the Armed Forces, VISTA volunteers, some Peace Corps employees and returning Peace Corps volunteers are examples of individuals who are potentially eligible for noncompetitive appointment. If you are eligible and would like to be considered for one of these noncompetitive appointments, applicable documentation that supports your eligibility must be submitted with your application package.

Ethics Requirement: Our Agency is committed to the highest ethical standards and, as an employee you will be covered by the criminal conflict of interest statutes (18 U.S.C. 201-209) and the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch (5 C.F.R. part 2635). Additionally, you may be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) or Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e) within 30 days of your appointment date and on an annual basis thereafter.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Your application will be evaluated first for the basic qualifications described above. The applications that meet the basic qualifications will be evaluated further against the following criteria:

• 508 Compliance
• Customer Service
• Drupal
• Search Engine Optimization

Important Note: Your resume must support your answers to the job specific questions. High self-assessment on the Occupational Questionnaire that is not supported by the information in your resume or supporting documents can/will result in elimination from further consideration. If you do not answer all of the job specific questions you will not be considered. Incomplete applications (resume and required supporting documents) will be considered ineligible.

Qualified applicants will be placed in one of the following three categories:

1 - Qualified Category - Meets the minimum qualification requirements as described in the Qualifications section of this announcement.
2 - Well Qualified Category - Meets the minimum qualification requirements and demonstrates proficiency based on the answers to the job specific questions.
3 - Best Qualified Category - Meets the minimum qualification requirements and demonstrates high level proficiency based on the answers to the job specific questions.

NOTE: Status candidates will be considered under the provisions of the Corporation's Human Resources system which allows for:
1) Non-competitive referral of lateral candidates; and
2) The separation of status and non-status applicants for referral purposes.

Status candidates will be referred on one selection list only, i.e., either merit promotion or non-competitive. Nonstatus candidates who are eligible for Noncompetitive referral, e.g. Peace Corps, VRA, etc., will be referred under Noncompetitive procedures only. For Noncompetitive categories, See "Special Employment Consideration" below under "Other Information."

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Other

Drug test required
No

Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk

Trust determination process
Credentialing

Required Documents

• Resume showing relevant experience (cover letter optional);
• Unofficial transcript (if qualifying based on education):
• Veterans' Preference Documentation (DD-214, VA Letter, and SF-15 if claiming 10-point preference; DD-214 if claiming 5-point preference), if applicable;
• For Merit Promotion Eligibility: SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action (must indicate tenure and position occupied), if applicable;
• Documentation supporting eligibility for Non-Competitive appointment, e.g., Schedule A (severely disabled), eligible veterans (VRA or 30-percent or more disabled), VISTA, Peace Corps, etc., if applicable
• Completion of the Assessment Questionnaire, which includes responses to the narrative questions