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Summary

This vacancy is for a Supervisory IT Specialist position in the Decennial Information Technology Division located at the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland. The Census Bureau is accessible from the Metro Rail Green Line - Suitland Station.

This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Supervisory IT Specialist, GG-2210-15, FPL 15 positions within the Census Bureau in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.

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Responsibilities

The duties for this position will include:

• Responsible for directing resources and programs effectively.
• Coordinating the design, architecture, integration of major systems, infrastructure, database administration, applications and systems support.
• Managing activities relating to enterprise data collection, tabulation, data review, and data products in a complex database and a highly secured, high availability environment.

Travel Required

25% or less - Occasional travel may be required.

Supervisory status
Yes

Promotion Potential
15

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• U.S. citizen.
• Suitable for Federal employment.
• Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the announcement closing date.
• Registered for Selective Service, if applicable. (www.sss.gov)
• You may be required to complete a financial disclosure (OGE-450).

Applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

This position may be filled as a competitive temporary promotion opportunity not to exceed (NTE) 5 years by a current career or career-conditional Department of Commerce employee. This temporary promotion may be extended, terminated earlier, or made permanent at management's discretion. At the conclusion of the temporary promotion, the employee will return to their position of record.

This position may be filled as a term appointment, initial appointment is not to exceed (NTE) 2 years. This appointment may be extended 2 additional years at management's discretion.

This position is ELIGIBLE for telework; additional criteria will be required (e.g., supervisory approval).

This is a NON-BARGAINING unit position.

Relocation expenses will NOT be paid.

Qualifications

Applicants are responsible for insuring that the application submitted clearly indicates that they meet the qualifications listed below. To be eligible for this position, you must have the specialized experience, education, or a combination as indicated below.

Specialized Experience: For the Grade-15, you must have one year of experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the Grade-14 in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes experience utilizing and developing the talents of staff through the assignment of work, training, and personal directions. Experience supervising staff in design, development, integration and ongoing production for large-scale batch, interactive, integrated applications in a large database processing environment. Experience resolving application and operational design issues across multiple branches, divisions and cross directorate. Experience reviewing requirements and schedules and working with customers to resolve issues and clarify business/operational needs. Experience managing, coordinating, developing systems architecture and design in a multi-tier environment, documenting such architecture and design to support highly integrated systems solution. Experience designing, managing, and administrating large-scale database systems in an Oracle database environment. Experience with service oriented architecture and object oriented design projects, database design and management. Experience in design and development of systems to support data collection and tabulation activities. Experience managing activities relating to data collection, tabulation, data review, and data products and services in a large scale processing environment. Experience programming operations for products (data) creation, data collection and dissemination with high performance and tuning capabilities using a combination of in-house and COTS solutions.

Education may not be substituted for experience at the Grade-15 pay grade.

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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

Additional information

The following links provide information on various hiring authorities that may enable you to apply through merit assignment procedures, or be eligible for a non-competitive appointment.

• 30% or more disabled veteran
• Persons with disabilities
• CTAP
• ICTAP

The Department of Commerce provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Human Resources Office. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be on a case-by-case basis. TTY users can contact the Human Resources Office via the Federal Relay Service, 1-800-877-8339.

How You Will Be Evaluated

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

Your resume, optional cover letter and supporting documentation will be reviewed to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for the position. If you meet the minimum qualifications stated in the job opportunity announcement, we will compare your resume, optional cover letter and supporting documentation to your responses on the scored occupational questionnaire (True/False, Yes/No, Multiple Choice questions). Your resume and/or optional cover letter must support your responses to the scored occupational questionnaire, or your score may be lowered. The best-qualified candidates will be identified for referral to the hiring manager and may be invited for an interview.

Due weight shall be given to performance appraisals and awards in accordance with 5 CFR § 335.103(b)(3), during the interview/selection process conducted by the hiring manager.

The scored occupational questionnaire will evaluate you on the following competencies; please do not provide a separate written response:

The following competencies are desirable at the Grade-15 grade level:

• Skills managing and assigning work in a large-scale IT processing environment, setting priorities, preparing schedules, preparing projections and resource estimates, coordinating work with contract managers, evaluating performance, and accomplishing work assigned to the program area of responsibility.
• Ability to manage resources in the overall planning and direction of business processes, integration and assuring services are provided for applications, troubleshooting and database administration.
• Ability to select appropriate technologies, accurately assess risk, divide major projects into subsystems, and develop and document an overall design/architecture approach for a large complex integrated solution.
• Knowledge of data collection, tabulation and data review systems, and data products.
• Ability to program operations for services and products (data) creation, data collection, tabulation and dissemination.

We recommend that you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the application process.

To preview questions please click here .

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Other

Drug test required
No

Required Documents

A complete application consists of the following:

• Resume showing relevant experience; cover letter optional. Your resume should list your educational and work experience including the dates (mm/dd/yy) of each employment along with the number of hours worked per week. For work in the Federal service, please include the grade level for the position(s). Your resume may be used to validate your responses to the scored occupational questionnaire. Your resume should also indicate your citizenship and if you are registered with the Selective Service System if you are a male born after 12/31/59.
• SF-50, "Notification of Personnel Action," supporting your eligibility, with the exception of current Census Bureau employees.
• Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) and Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) documentation, if applicable (see other information).
• Documentation supporting eligibility for non-competitive appointment, (Schedule A disability, 30 percent disabled veteran, certain military spouses, etc).

You are not required to submit official documents at this time; copies are sufficient.

CTAP and ICTAP candidates:

CTAP and ICTAP candidates will be eligible for selection priority if it is determined that they have exceeded the minimum qualifications for the position by attaining at least a rating of 85 out of 100. Information about CTAP and ICTAP eligibility is on the Office of Personnel Management's Career Transition Resources website at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ctap_guideline.pdf .

CTAP applicants MUST submit the following documents:

A copy of your RIF separation notice; notice of proposed removal for declining a directed geographic relocation outside of the local commuting area; a Certificate of Expected Separation (CES); or certification that you are in a surplus organization or occupation (this could be a position abolishment letter, a notice of eligibility for discontinued service retirement, or similar notice).

A copy of your SF-50 "Notification of Personnel Action" noting current position, grade/band level, and duty location;

A copy of your latest performance appraisal including your rating; and

Any documentation from your bureau/operating unit that shows your current promotion potential.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.