Summary Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OTHER IRS CAREERS? Visit us on the web at www.jobs.irs.gov Responsibilities WHAT IS THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION? 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: Criminal Investigation, Tech Operations and Investigative Services The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. Serves as the Liaison between the manager and subordinate staff members and other key officials. Assures understanding and clarification of the manager's views on all problems and issues. Serves as office manager for the office and ensures that the practices and procedures used by secretaries in subordinate offices are consistent with those of the manager's office. On own initiative, recommends changes in administrative policies. Devises and installs office procedures and practices to be used by secretaries in subordinate offices. Ensures an orderly and efficient flow of work and resolves various problems and situations that affect the flow of work. Identifies trends that may have a significant effect on, for example, operations, administrative practices, communications, etc. Suggests possible courses of action to take when trends indicate actual or potential problem areas. Recommends functional component or individual best suited to provide follow-up action. Analyzes incoming directives, manual issuances, policy changes, regulatory and procedural changes, etc., for significant potential effect on the manager's objectives as well as for general interests and informal objectives of the manager. Alerts the manager of areas of potential impact and arranges for any necessary follow-up technical review by appropriate segments of the organization. Personally handles to completion a wide variety of administrative projects, performing necessary coordination, making contacts, obtaining comments from management officials concerned, and preparing correspondence. Reviews agenda items for executive conferences, assembles digests, consolidates comments from management officials, and summarizes material for use by the manager for participation in these conferences. Edits and offers a critical analysis on internal management documents, pointing out aspects such as lack of clarity, and follows-up with the action official for review and possible correction and resubmission. Requirements Conditions of Employment STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD92863 Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions. A 1-year probationary period is required (unless already completed). Submit to a drug test prior to your appointment and random drug testing while you occupy the position. A negative test is required. Obtain and use a government-issued charge card for business-related travel. 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-timework 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-10 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Receiving all visitors and telephone calls to the office, determining the nature of call or business of visitors, deciding where visitors are referred; Making appointments for the supervisor, establishing priorities, setting up, rescheduling, or refusing appointments, and accepting or declining invitations to meetings; Arranging travel and meetings and conferences and assembling material for agenda items; Using own judgment to determine and refer items of special importance; Reviewing incoming directives and issuances; Preparing correspondence in conformance with the supervisor's viewpoint or for the supervisor's signature; Serving as a liaison and briefing supervisor on important and office related facts, issues, reports, programs, and activities; Recommending changes in administrative policies and devising and installing procedures and office practices; Instructing and assisting other secretaries on procedural matters such as the correct procedures to follow in preparing correspondence and conducting periodic training sessions; Retrieving, gathering, and generating data, as well as using various word processing, spreadsheet, slides, and statistical data computer software applications in order to create, manipulate, compute, report, retrieve, print and transmit data; and Performing administrative support assignments. OR COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. 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-10 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-10 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". You must meet the following special requirements: Applicants must be a qualified typist with a minimum typing speed of 40 words per minute (based on a 5-minute sample with three or fewer errors). Applicants may meet these requirements by passing the appropriate performance test, presenting a certificate of proficiency from a school or other organization authorized to issue such certificates by the Office of Personnel Management local office, or by self-certifying their proficiency. Performance test results and certificates of proficiency are acceptable for three years. We may verify proficiency skills of self-certified applicants by administering the appropriate performance test. Employees must be a current employee of Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations. Employees must be a current Secretary, GS-0318-10. You must be in the current position and grade level, be able to demonstrate the level of knowledge necessary to carry out the responsibilities of this position, and have a current performance appraisal rating of fully successful or above. 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 (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions. Additional Information This position is Remain in POD. You will remain in your current post of duty but may be required to travel to a temporary CI duty location within your home POD's commuting area to sit in CI Space. Travel to a temporary CI duty location will be based on business needs, with consideration given to location preference(s). Though many locations may be listed, you will be limited to selecting a maximum of five (5) location preferences. Please consider each location preference carefully when applying. In the event that a building is closed due to rent management, new hires may be placed in a local commuting location. 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 non-bargaining unit position. Tour of Duty: Day Shift, Mon - Fri, start and stop times between 6am and 6pm. Alternative work schedule, staggered work hours or telework may be available. Telework Eligible Positions: Telework eligible positions do not guarantee telework. Employees must meet and sustain IRS telework eligibility requirements (e.g., reporting at least twice a pay period to your assigned Post of Duty (POD)) and supervisor's approval to participate in the IRS Telework Program. Employees must also be within a 200-mile radius of their official assigned post-of-duty (POD) while in a telework status. As a reminder - If you are selected for a position, you are responsible for reporting to your designated POD (location) on the negotiated start date or as directed by management. Relocation expenses - No Position is NTE 1 year, may be extended up to five years, may be made permanent without further competition.