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Information Technology Specialist (Policy Planning)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology · Posted 44 days ago
Hybrid Salt Lake City, UT $126K – $164K Apply by Jun 3, 2026 Information Technology Management ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Engineering
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This position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Software Product Management, Product Engineering Services, Compliance, Risk & Remediation, Office of People Science, Office of Strategic Sourcing. The position is responsible for comprehensive portfolio management and central management of a technical framework promoting one technology vision across VA.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties: Responsible for the management and administration of processes and tools that enable the organization to identify, document, and access intellectual capital information content.
- →Evaluates the impact of changes in business needs on current VA IT policy and projects.
- →Provide consultation and guidance to VA executive management on policy and planning relating to OIT/VA highly technical IT projects.
- →Implement, and interpret metrics for the evaluation of program effectiveness and efficiency to include programs pertaining to agency-wide initiatives.
- →Conducts presentations or briefings on all aspects of portfolio coordination area of responsibility.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm.
- →Tour of duty may be subject to change based on organizational needs.
- →Travel Required: Up to 25% travel may be required, as needed, for this position.
- →Financial Disclosure Report: No applicable Designated Drug Testing Position: Not applicable Compressed/Flexible: As determined by the Agency Policy Telework: Adhoc telework may be authorized at management discretion Virtual: This is NOT a virtual position.
- →Position Description/PD#: Information Technology Specialist (Policy Planning)/PD18089ARelocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Physical Demands: The work may require some physical effort, such as standing, walking, bending, or sitting.
- →The work often requires long hours to meet project deadlines and to devise corrective action and solutions to unexpected technical and/or management crises resulting in sometimes highly stressful work situations.
- →The work requires almost constant use of a video display terminal.
- →Working Conditions: The employee works primarily in an office setting involving everyday risks or discomforts.
- →Normal safety precautions are adequate.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process.
- ✓In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment.
- ✓The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
- ✓Physical Requirements: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment.
- ✓A pre-placement physical examination is not required.
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.
Personality Fit
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