Supervisory Tax Examining Technician (First Read/Limited Scope Manager)

Internal Revenue Service • Covington, KY

6d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is to be filled in the SBSE CAMP EXAM - Campus Exam/AUR Cincinnati - Innocent Spouse Department 1. As a Front Line Manager, you will plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules for completion of work. You will assign work based on priorities, difficulty, requirements, and employee capabilities. You will evaluate subordinate performance, make recommendations for recognition or disciplinary action, and provide advice, counsel, or instruction on work and administrative matters. Additionally, you will interview candidates and recommend appointments, promotions, or reassignments, hear and resolve employee complaints, and effect minor disciplinary measures while recommending actions for more serious cases. You will also identify and arrange for employee development and training needs and initiate improvements to production, work processes, and the quality of directed work. The specific duties of this position include analyzing written guidance from IRS, Treasury, and other federal agencies, federal statutes, results, and findings for potential impact on Innocent Spouse (ISO). You will provide analysis, recommendations, and subject matter expertise to ISO employees on data analytics, program implementation, and compliance, using qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to improve programs. You will also perform administrative tasks using an automated system for assigning, monitoring, and updating work status and inventory records, ordering research, acknowledging correspondence, maintaining personnel records, and performing other support activities. Preparing and maintaining regular production/inventory reports and special reports as directed are also key responsibilities.

Requirements

• A person who is required to go through a probationary period and then is transferred, promoted, demoted, or reassigned before he or she completes such period is required to complete the remainder of the probationary period in the new position.
• Subject to a 1-year supervisory or managerial probationary period (unless already completed).
• Obtain and use a Government-issued charge card for business-related travel.
• One 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.
• Experience that demonstrated management/leadership experience such as applying management techniques, methods, theories, principles, or labor relations concepts for the accomplishment of all program objectives with combined technical and administrative oversight.
• This experience may have been gained through work experience as a project/program manager, team lead or project/program lead, technical advisor, or senior specialist/analyst that included managing resources, providing support to managers, mentoring team members, providing day to day guidance training and/or oversight of peers or others.
• Experience applying regulations, other official guidance and principles, including the latest procedures and techniques sufficient to oversee the planning, development and implementation of the technical aspects of programs specific to the position being filled.
• Experience applying communicative techniques to effectively and diplomatically interact with internal and external customers.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Responsibilities

• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work.
• Assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Evaluate work performance of subordinates and makes recommendations for outstanding performance recognition and/or disciplinary action.
• Give advice, counsel or instruction to employees on work and administrative matters.
• Interview candidates for positions within the organization/unit and recommend appointment, promotion or reassignment to such positions.
• Hear and resolve complaints from employees, refer group grievances and/or more serious unresolved complaints as appropriate.
• Effect minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, recommend other actions in more serious cases.
• Identify developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for needed development and training.
• Initiate ways to improve production, work processes and/or to increase the quality of the work directed.
• Analyzes written guidance including policy documents from IRS, Treasury, and other federal agencies, federal statutes. results, findings, as well as following developments and emerging program related areas, for potential impact/applicability to ISO.
• Provides analysis, recommendations, and subject matter expertise to ISO employees on matters related to data analytics, program implementation, and compliance.
• Uses qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to look for ways to improve the programs.
• Performs a variety of administrative tasks using an automated system which involves assigning, maintaining, monitoring, or updating work status and inventory records; ordering research; acknowledging correspondence; maintaining, updating, and initiating personnel records; and performing other support activity.
• Prepares and maintains regular production/inventory reports using established formats and sources of data applicable to the program, functional, or organizational reporting requirements.
• Prepares special reports as directed.

Benefits

• Great benefits
• Formal Development Plan - If this position is covered by a formal development plan, pay retention will be offered where applicable based on law and regulation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed