IT Specialist (Systems Analysis)

Description:

This position is located in the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Assistant Chief Information Officer (ACIO), with one vacancy in Silver Spring, MD.

This position is also announced under vacancy number NESDIS-24-12374735-DE, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Requirements:

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy.

For all positions individuals must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below. The employing agency is responsible for identifying the specific level of proficiency required for each competency at each grade level based on the requirements of the position being filled.

• Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.
• Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations. EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position.
  
  SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.
  
  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.
  
  To qualify for the ZP-3 or GS-11/12:
  SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZP-2 (GS-09) in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following:
• Planning and scheduling the installation of new or modified hardware and applications software;

Maintaining operating systems and computers; and Analyzing and defining network requirements. OR

EDUCATION: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or three (3) full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree
in computer science, engineering, information science, information systems management, mathematics, operations research, statistics, or
technology management, or degree that provided a minimum of 24 semester hours in one or more of the fields identified above and required the
development or adaptation of applications, systems or networks.

To qualify at the ZP-4 (GS-13/14) grade level:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZP-3 (GS-12) in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Providing oversight with installing, testing, maintaining, and upgrading network operating systems software; Maintaining operating systems and computers; and Analyzing and defining network requirements and defining and maintaining network architecture and infrastructure. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: This position requires the submission of a Financial Disclosure Form, OGE-450.