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IT Specialist (APPSW) - RECENT GRADUATES
National Transportation Safety Board · Posted 67 days ago
Hybrid Washington, DC $58K – $92K Apply by Aug 10, 2026 Information Technology Management ENTJINTJINTPISTJ
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This position is being filled under the Pathways Recent Graduate Program. This position provides those who have graduated from a qualifying educational institution or certificate program within the past two years with opportunities for work in agencies and career development with training and mentorship. You must apply within two years of getting your degree or certificate (veterans have up to six years to apply due to their military service obligation).
What You'll Do
- →GS-7 is an entry level professional grade and is considered a trainee level by OPM.
- →GS-9 is a mid-level professional grade, which requires higher qualifications and involves more complex work than a GS-7.
- →Please see the duties and specialized experience for additional information.
- →Identify routine technical issues and elevates matters to senior specialists, architects, cybersecurity personnel, or platform administrators.
- →Support senior specialists in evaluating software, cloud, platform, and hardware solutions, including Azure services, Azure DevOps capabilities, Salesforce platform capabilities, SharePoint, SQL Server, .NET, Power Platform, low-code/no-code tools, intelligent automation, APIs, and real-time analytics.
- →Answers basic IT questions and provide non-complex guidance related to application functionality, user access, configuration, and common system issues.
- →At the GS-9 grade level, in addition to the duties at the lower grade level, typical duties include: Support use of Azure DevOps for source control, work item tracking, build and release activities, testing coordination, and traceability from requirements through deployment.
- →Participate in software and hardware evaluations and assessments aimed at optimal performance and interoperability between existing and proposed applications.
- →Coordinate with technical staff to monitor, triage, and resolve helpdesk activities and user problems.
- →The Full Performance Level (FPL) is the GS-13.
Requirements
- ✓For qualification purposes, an academic year is computed as follows: At the undergraduate level, successfully completed education that has not led to possession of a degree is credited based on its relationship to 120 semester hours or 180 quarter hours.
- ✓For example, 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours is comparable to 1 year of undergraduate education.
- ✓Four years of progressive study or 120 semester hours meets the degree requirements.
- ✓Additional credit cannot be given for duplicate course work.
- ✓For study at a business or technical school, 36 weeks of study (20+ classroom hours per week) is comparable to 1 academic year above high school.
- ✓An academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 academic year of full-time study.
- ✓This determination is made based on normal course loads for a full year of study in the graduate program.
- ✓If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours or 27 quarter hours should be considered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement.
- ✓Part-time graduate education is creditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study at the school attended.
- ✓When academic credit is expressed in contract months, units, or other terms that differ from conventional semester or quarter hours, it is the responsibility of the applicant to provide an interpretation of such credits from the appropriate institution in order to equate them to the semester or quarter hours specified in the standard.
- ✓NOTE: If your college, vocational, trade, technical or high schools' definition of "academic year" differs from above, you must submit proof of this difference (e.g., copy of course catalog that defines an academic year).
- ✓Absent this documentation, you will screened for academic qualifications based on the academic hours as defined in the bullets above.
- ✓Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be combined to meet the total qualification requirements.
- ✓Only education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used.
Personality Fit
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