U.S. Digital Corps - Director

U.S. Digital Corps is hiring for GS-15 - U.S. Digital Corps Director. This page contains information related to the role as well as a link to submit your application. Check out Join TTS Hiring Process to learn more about the application process.

Location: Virtual (100% Remote)

Salary Range: The salary range for this position is: GS-15 Step 1 - $131,178 to GS-15 Step 10 $176,300

Your salary, including base and locality, will be determined upon selection, dependent on your actual duty location.

You can find more information about this in the compensation and benefits section on our site.

For specific details on locality pay, please visit OPM’s Salaries & Wages page or for a salary calculator OPM’s 2022 General Schedule (GS) Salary Calculator.

Please note the maximum salary available for the GS pay system is $176,300

Note: You may not be eligible for the maximum salary as it is locality dependent. Please refer to the maximum pay for your locality.

Who May Apply: All United States citizens and nationals (residents of American Samoa and Swains Islands)

Role Summary:

U.S. Digital Corps Director - GS-15

The U.S. Digital Corps (USDC) is a two-year fellowship that pairs early-career, mission-driven software engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, and cybersecurity specialists with technology changemakers in the federal government to build human-centered solutions to solve our nation’s toughest challenges. Fellows are the engines on projects that drive innovation in the areas of climate, healthcare, racial equity, immigration and economic recovery.

The USDC Director strategically leads the fellowship program, designing and driving USDC program strategy, growth, and execution. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to empower the next generation of technology leaders to launch careers in public service. You will continue to build and shape on an already successful model for the future fellows. More than just a job with a competitive salary and benefits, you will help grow the federal government technology leaders of the future . This is a senior leadership, supervisory, remote/virtual, permanent position for the US Federal Government/GSA/TTS.

Key Objectives

Key objective #1: Build critical government-wide partnerships and collaborations.

• Create growth opportunities for USDC to increase agency partnerships and facilitate strategic initiatives to grow Digital Corps to ensure its continued success and momentum.
• Regularly collaborate with federal agencies on projects, policies, and initiatives and navigate complex bureaucracy and lead stakeholders through change.
• Represent the USDC program with TTS leadership, stakeholders, including members of the White House, Congress, government officials, members of special interest groups, the media, at conferences and with the general public.
• Build relationships across the government to understand business and technology needs for potential USDC placement.

Key objective #2: Provide leadership in two or more of the following areas, while maintaining competence in other key discipline skills:

Ensure continued technical or program excellence by leading in two or more of the following areas:

• Operations: Focus on processes and measures that support creating consistent quality and ensure smooth operations.
• Program Research: Thoughtfully explore problems and evaluate possible solutions (i.e. policy) using critical thinking and hands-on qualitative or quantitative research skills.
• Program Administration: Identify funding sources and maintain annual profit and loss statements/budget. Manage and execute program interagency agreements.
• Learning & Development Programming: Devise high-level planning, execution, and on-going management of the Learning and Development content lifecycle to support fellow professional development.
• Fellow Experience: Develop end to end fellow experience starting from application, to engagement/in-program support, to offboarding and conversion into permanent roles.
• Information architecture: Organize and structure complex information to help diverse audiences easily find what they need.

Key objective #3: Lead, manage, supervise and mentor USDC personnel with a focus on furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

• Develop the entire fellow experience from application, to in-program support, to offboarding and potential conversion into permanent roles.
• Drive recruitment efforts for USDC cohorts and further diversity by ensuring equal opportunity in recruitment, selection, training, awards and assignments.
• Conduct and document performance plans and development plans for direct reports (first-line fellow supervisors and front office staff). Clearly communicate expectations, initiate difficult conversations and/or possible corrective actions.
• Maintain a work environment of respect, diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, mutual support, flexibility, collaboration, continuous learning, and commitment to customer / partner needs. Ensure all perspectives are valued and included. Uphold TTS values of inclusion, integrity, and impact.

Basic Information

Location: Virtual (100% Remote)

Salary Range: Base salary GS-15 - $131,178 to $176,300

If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected. Total compensation may include locality pay based on the individual’s duty location. For more salary information including locality pay details, please visit OPM’s Salaries & Wages page.

Who May Apply: All United States citizens and nationals (residents of American Samoa and Swains Islands)

Job announcement number: 23STFB045SL-DHA

Opening and closing period for this job application: Thursday, November 10, 2022 EDT to 11:59pm on Monday, November 21, 2022 EDT

Job Title: Supervisory IT Program Manager

Series & Grade: 2210 - 15

Promotion Potential: GS-15

Number of vacancies: 1 (Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement as needed)

Supervisory status: Yes

Travel requirement: Occasional travel may be required up to 10%-20% per year

Security clearance: Public trust. Background investigation required.

Work Schedule: Full time

Appointment Type: Competetive Permanent

Job Summary

This position is located within the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Technology Transformation Service (TTS).

GSA has been repeatedly named as one of the ‘Best Places to Work’ in the federal government. You will have access to many benefits including:

• Health insurance (choose from a wide range of plans)
• Life insurance coverage with several options
• Sick leave and vacation time, including 10 paid holidays per year
• Thrift Savings Plan (similar to a 401(k) plan)
• Flexible work schedules and telework
• Transit and child care subsidies
• Training and development
• Flexible spending accounts
• Long-term care insurance
• Training and development

Key Requirements

1. You must be a U.S. Citizen or National (residents of American Samoa and Swains Islands)
2. Suitable for federal employment, determined by a background investigation
3. You may be required to serve a trial period
4. Direct Deposit of salary check to financial organization required
5. Register with Selective Service, if you are required by https://www.sss.gov/Registration-Info/Who-Registration

Employment Requirements

• Serve a one year trial period, if required
• Undergo and pass a background investigation. You must be granted this clearance before you can start the job
• Have your identity and work status eligibility verified if you are not a GSA employee. We will use the Department of Homeland Security’s e-Verify system for this
• Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of continued employment
• Complete a financial disclosure report to verify that no conflict, or an appearance of conflict, exists between your financial interest and this position

Application Evaluation

The information in this sections outlines the criteria that your application will be evaluated against to determine if you meet the Qualifications for the position. There are two very important things to note about this step in the process:

1. Only applications found “minimally qualified” are shared with the hiring manager and are the only candidates eligible to be interviewed
2. The Minimum Qualification determination can only be made using the information that’s directly within your resume and directly associated your listed work experience.
   • Examples of stuff that can’t be used:
   • Links to portfolios or other external materials (Yes, the links themselves may be “directly” on the resume but the information is not).
   • Information you include in cover letters, responses to questions, etc. as these are not directly associated with your work experience
   • Lists of tools, technologies, programming languages, etc. that are listed separately from your work experience

The Qualification process is a bureaucratic requirement that we are stuck with. It’s best to think about it as the most intense and rigorous resume review you’ve ever heard of. To get through this process you need make sure your resume directly reflects the Qualifications listed below. We also have more guidance on creating a federal style resume on Join TTS Hiring Process

Qualifications

In order to properly be able to evaluate your previous experience, we recommend being as detailed as possible in your resume and following our general guidance on creating a federal style resume.

To qualify for this role, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 in the Federal service.

Specialized Experience must have been obtained in an information technology environment. Specialized experience is defined as:

• Experience developing and articulating a vision or strategy for a technology-focused program or organization.
• Experience leading a cross-functional team that provides or supports delivery of modern technology or digital product(s), platform(s), or service(s).
• Experience managing and overseeing project plans, monitoring activities, and facilitating resources to mitigate risks, making improvements and/or resolving unforeseen problems.
• Experience building relationships and alignment with customers and/or stakeholders.
• Experience managing and developing early career employees.

Qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, so failure to provide this information may result in disqualification.

For each job on your resume, provide:

• the exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year or “present”)
• number of hours per week you worked (if part time)