Computer Assistant (Functional Automation Coordinator)
Dallas, TX

Job Description

* Duties

Help Duties Summary

WHAT IS THE SMALL BUSINESS AND SELF EMPLOYEDDIVISION: The Small Business/Self-Employed (SB/SE) Division provides examinations and taxpayer education services for about 7 million small businesses and upwards of 33 million self-employed and supplemental income taxpayers.

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Responsibilities

WHAT DOES A COMPUTER ASSISTANT SCHEDULER DO? As a Computer Assistant Scheduler you will be responsible for preparing and monitoring short and long range machine allocations and schedules for a variety of multi-programming computer systems. In this role, you will be involved in the coordination, control, scheduling, and direct operational support for computer systems. You will devise solutions to conventional problems which are not usually covered by established procedures.

As a Computer Assistant Scheduler you will:

* Plan, schedule, and control the processing of tax data on major corporate and departmental computer systems.
* Analyze and evaluate requirements for computer processing by identifying work flow and sequence equipment and capacity requirements, and job interrelationships.
* Review system reports and logs to identify scheduling conflicts, processing problems, or job failures and determine corrective actions.
* Ensure correct restoration of data files and data bases at the proper restart point.
* Receive program additions and changes from programmers and various external sources.
* Evaluate system change requests to determine modifications to existing set-ups, schedules, run streams, and dependencies with other systems and programs.

If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

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Travel Required

Occasional travel - Travel away from the work site to attend meetings, review work sites, or visit other facilities may be required.

Supervisory status

No

Promotion Potential

09


* Job family (Series)

0335 Computer Clerk And Assistant


* Requirements

Help Requirements Conditions of Employment

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* Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
* IRS Employees with Career/Career Conditional Appointments.
* Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

GS-06 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience with standardized data processing rules, operations, and procedures to resolve problems; Experience working with the features, characteristics, and interrelationships of basic computer equipment, basic internal computer processes, applications and utility programs, and basic magnetic media; Experience using basic diagnostic methods to assist in identifying required actions; Experience with data content and output options used in coding and developing control streams and schedules.

GS-07 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience using data processing rules, operating procedures and processing methods, system control language, and methods for defining and retrieving non-standard data and reports; Experience working with the features, characteristics, and interrelationships of computer equipment, internal computer processes, applications and utility programs, and magnetic media to assist in identifying problems; Experience using general diagnostic methods, procedures, and principles to identify required actions; Experience working with data content and output options used in coding, developing control streams and schedules for dependent and interdependent programs, in order to identify problems.

GS-08 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience working with the features, characteristics, and interrelationships of multiple types of computer equipment, internal computer processes, applications and utility programs, and magnetic media; Experience using wide range of analytical and diagnostic methods, procedures, and principles to identify required actions and implement decisions; Experience working with data content and output options used in coding, developing control streams and schedules for independent and interdependent programs, or multi-program operating systems.

GS-09 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-08 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience working with the features, characteristics, and interrelationships of multiple types of computer equipment, internal computer processes, applications and utility programs, and magnetic media; Experience using a wide range of analytical and diagnostic methods and procedures to identify required actions and implement decisions; Experience working with data content and output options used in coding, developing control streams and schedules for independent and interdependent programs, or multi-program operating systems; Experience analyzing data to identify problems encountered on major computer systems and the hardware/software programs monitored and experience in coordination, control, scheduling, and direct operational support for several large capacity computer systems.

* 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-time work 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.

In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following, if applicable:

You must have been at the next lower grade level of the grade you are applying to for 52 weeks (time-in-grade requirement).

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