Supervisory Information Technology Specialist (SYSADMINCUSTSPT)

Major Duties:

• Plans the assigned work for individual personnel on a specific shift to meet regular peak load and priority requirements. Within established staff and time constraints makes changes in organization of work and assignment of work to meet emergency situations: to facilitate workflow promote employee relations and to improve services rendered.
• Justifies and implements revisions in work organization priorities and procedures.
• Researches and justifies to supervisor changes that may affect costs employee job relations and/or restrict/expand services performed and implements the changes upon approval.
• Ensures written instructions and procedures for routine. non-routine and complex assignments are available. Ensures published guidelines are clear concise and kept up to-date. Ensures all shift documentation is submitted to the Service Desk Peer Review group.
• Establishes and enforces work schedules to meet the needs of assigned shift to include Compressed Work Week (CWWW) night weekend and holiday tours of duty. Determines requirements and schedules/approves overtime on a daily/weekly basis. Ensures all staffing requirements are met. Has the authority to approve overtime (OT) annual and medical leave and certify payroll for all personnel assigned to the Service Desk regardless of shift.
• Keeps shift employees informed of management goals and objectives and higher-level supervisors informed of employees participation and concerns.
• Responsible for personnel staffing reassignments to meet workload requirements. Recommends and justifies promotions outstanding achievement and performance awards.
• Modifies as necessary performance standards for subordinate employees. Rates prepares and presents employee performance appraisals and formal recognition of outstanding performance. Formally and informally counsels employees on work conduct duty performance work ethics and areas that require improvement. Coordinates with higher management officials and Human Resources on the retainability of personnel not performing up to standards.
• Assumes the responsibilities of higher-level supervisor in their absence. Coordinates and has decision approval for all aspects of daily operations within the scope of supervision.
• Ensures effective communication between each shift flows smoothly. Ensuring the oncoming shift is aware of any significant issues the previous shift encountered or are still unresolved.
• Receives and resolves formal grievances at the first supervisory level; resolves labor/management grievances at the first supervisory level.
• Develops and implements individual task lists training plans and conducts parallel training to maintain employee skills at a high level. Training plans and individual task lists are maintained for all staff members.
• Ensures all employees receive equal treatment and opportunity under general
  provisions of government-wide and agency EEO programs. Informs employees of all aspects of various personnel programs. researches and provides answers to employee concerns.
• Provides guidance and operational decisions to maintain a high level of systems availability as variable unpredictable and unexpected changes in system loading occur.
• During the tour of duty responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction in all facets of the Service Desk are met or exceeded. Ensures all scheduled production jobs are processed. Refers/assigns correction of abnormally terminated jobs to appropriate personnel to correct the problem and ensure everything is documented accordingly. Responsible for all open systems performance and reporting of any unscheduled interruption in service through appropriate channels. Applies sound evaluative techniques in identifying
  trouble conditions and problem solving; generates related reports.
• Categorize similar tasks (administrative management supervisory tasks analysis budgetary/financial management functions clerical tasks support tasks etc).

Conditions of employment

Qualifications

To qualify for this position applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

GS-13 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge skills and abilities (KSAs) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes: Experience administering Identity and Access Management tools and concepts for enterprise implementation. Experience developing and adopting Information Technology (IT) knowledge sharing concepts and strategies to detect issues while promoting a more efficient and effective delivery of quality support to the customer. Experience with strategizing consulting and advising others in the capacity of IT Service Management (ITSM) process design flow and interaction. Experience with verbal communication both in person and over the telephone and with written communication to provide detailed and technical IT information in a clear logical and concise manner to individuals at all organizational levels including director and program management levels.

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; religions; 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.