Supervisory Tax Examining Technician
What you'd do
WHAT IS LARGE BUSINESS AND INTERNATIONAL (LBI)? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions LARGE BUSINESS AND INTERNATIONAL - Direct Pass Thru Entities-Deputy Director - Territory 3 TEFRA Tour of Duty: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm, 40 hours per week This announcement is open to current permanent IRS competitive service employees. REVIEW THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW FOR FURTHER DETAILS
Major duties
General Manager Duties: As a Front Line Manager you will: Define business goals, develop work plans and set short and long term priorities to be accomplished by subordinates. Direct, coordinate and oversee work plans through subordinate managers and supervisors. Assign work based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees. Evaluate program implementation and effectiveness. Provide guidance, advice, counsel or instruction to subordinates in resolving administrative and on technical problems. Manage relationships with functional executives of IRS operating divisions within the area serviced, officials of other agencies, and in advising management officials of higher rank. Develop performance standards and evaluate work performance of subordinate supervisors and managers; Serve as the reviewing official on evaluations and performance recognition or disciplinary actions of non-supervisory employees rated by subordinate supervisors. Manage and resolve group grievances, employee complaints and/or other issues elevated to the second level. Make decisions and/or approve expenses on routine and/or non-routine, costly or controversial requests and/or personnel related actions (e.g., selection, training, promotions). Serve as a coach and/or mentor to subordinate managers and/or employees on an ongoing basis, tailoring the emphasis based on the particular needs and background. Initiate ways to improve efficiency of the department and increase the quality of the work directed; Find and implement ways to eliminate or reduce significant bottlenecks and barriers to production, promote team building or improve business practices. The following are the job specific duties of this position. You will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position. Directs, coordinates, or oversees work using supervisors, leaders, team chiefs, group coordinators or comparable personnel. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees. Evaluates subordinate supervisors and serves as the reviewing official on evaluations of nonsupervisory employees rated by subordinate supervisors. STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD91714 Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions.
What you need to qualify
Federal experience is not required. Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or through 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/day/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: You must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the next lower level within the payband or GS grade in the normal line of progression in the Federal service that demonstrates the required managerial skills and technical competence required to perform the job. To be qualified for this position your experience must include: Experience applying tax examining procedures to process restricted interest applications and other tax examining work in accordance with established program requirements. Experience reviewing and resolving technical tax examining issues by applying applicable procedures, policies, and program requirements to ensure accurate case processing. Experience analyzing tax examining casework to identify processing issues, determine appropriate corrective actions, and support timely case resolution. Experience coordinating tax examining activities with internal organizations to resolve processing issues and ensure consistent application of tax examining procedures. Experience implementing process improvements that increase the efficiency, consistency, and quality of tax examining operations and work products. Experience monitoring tax examining workloads and case inventories to identify trends, resolve processing issues, and support timely completion of assigned work. Experience applying tax examining program requirements to ensure accurate processing of cases, consistent application of procedures, and compliance with established operational standards. Experience reviewing technical case documentation and work products to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with established tax examining procedures. AND You must also meet the following requirement(s): TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT (TACA): 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" For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards. Go to Understanding the IRS Paybands for GS/IR conversion.
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