Executive Assistant

This Executive Assistant position is with Internal Revenue Service (Department of the Treasury) in Glendale, AZ. WHAT IS HUMAN CAPITAL OFFICE (HCO)? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions Position(s) are to be filled in following area(s): HCO This job (or announcement) is open to current permanent IRS competitive service employees in Human Capital Office (HCO) business units. REVIEW THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW FOR FURTHER DETAILS Key duties: • The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position. Leads the development, integration, and execution of strategic and operational plans aligned with agency mission and Departmental priorities. Translates executive vision into measurable goals, performance frameworks, and implementation roadmaps. Establishes governance structures and decision-support processes to ensure alignment across multiple organizational components. Identifies enterprise risks, implementation implications, and resource gaps; formulates mitigation strategies and executive recommendations. Provides executive-level oversight of priority initiatives and enterprise programs. Monitors performance metrics, deliverables, and compliance requirements. Directs cross-functional coordination to resolve barriers affecting execution. Develops executive dashboards and reporting mechanisms to inform leadership decision-making. Ensures alignment with federal regulations, internal controls, and performance management frameworks. Serves as a principal executive staff resource to assigned HCO leadership in the planning, coordination, and integration of high-priority human capital initiatives and management matters having significant organizational impact. Provides continuity and coordination across HCO functions and ensures matters requiring executive attention are appropriately analyzed, developed, and positioned for timely leadership action. Reviews and assesses complex and sensitive matters involving HCO programs, operations, workforce issues, employee relations, organizational priorities, and management initiatives. Identifies interdependencies, conflicting requirements, implementation concerns, and matters requiring resolution or elevation. Develops assessments, options, recommendations, and executive-level briefing materials to support management deliberations and decisions. Coordinates HCO responses and actions involving IRS organizations and, as appropriate, Treasury, OPM, oversight organizations, and other governmental entities. Synthesizes information and recommendations from multiple HCO functions and organizational components; identifies unresolved issues or differing positions; and facilitates resolution or presents matters to leadership for decision. Manages and coordinates executive-level actions arising from inquiries, reviews, audits, organizational initiatives, and other matters requiring HCO leadership attention. Evaluates submissions for completeness, responsiveness, consistency with established requirements and leadership direction, and potential impact on HCO programs and operations. STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD26068 Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions. Qualifications: 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. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To qualify for this position, you must meet the qualification requirements outlined below: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-15: To be minimally qualified for this position you must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-14) in the Federal Government. Specialized experience is experience that is related to the work of this position and has provided you with the competencies required for successful job performance. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience serving as a trusted advisor to the executive on administrative, operational, and cross-organizational coordination matters impacting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and departmental priorities, being the central coordination point between the executive office, external partners and interagency partners on sensitive and high-priority matters, and representing the Chief executive, as appropriate, and represent executive in internal coordination meetings and senior-level discussions focused on execution, alignment, and operational follow-through. Experience with management principles, theories, and practices and their applicability to IRS' programs, functions, objectives, and the development of long-term strategic plans incorporating short-term and long-term goals. Identify operational gaps, process inefficiencies, and coordination challenges; recommend and implement solutions to improve organizational effectiveness, responsiveness, and execution discipline. Experience communicating both orally and in writing with internal and external stakeholders to persuade implementation of substantial changes in agency resources and established procedures. Synthesize input from senior leadership, interagency partners, and external stakeholders into clear, concise, and actionable recommendations. Preparing agency directives, service-wide policy statements, briefing documents, status reports, and other written guidelines and recommendations. Experience overseeing, coordinating and conducting the development of briefing material, presentations and negotiations on technical problems, outcomes, and recommendations to gain cooperation from top IRS officials and other top officials at federal, state, local, and non-government organizations to improve services provided, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with strategic objectives. Establish and maintain effective relationships to gain confidence and cooperation of supervisors, managers, and co-workers to accept proposals. 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" TIME IN GRADE (TIG): For positions above the GS-05, applicants must meet applicable time-in-­grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the grade you are applying for. For positions at the GS-05, you cannot advance to the GS-05 if you have held a GS-02 in the past 52 weeks. There is no TIG restriction for GS-02, 03 or 04 positions. For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards. View the full announcement and apply on USAJOBS.gov.