Top Secret

Duties

As a Senior Manager you will: Exercise delegated managerial authority to oversee the overall planning, directing and timely execution of a program, several program segments (each of which is managed through separate subordinate organizational units), or comparable staff functions, including development, assignment, and higher level clearance of goals and objectives for supervisors or managers of subordinate organizational unit or lower organizational levels. Approve multi year and longer range work plans developed by the supervisors or managers of subordinate organizational units and subsequently manage the overall work to enhance achievement of the goals and objectives. Oversee the revision of long range plans, goals and objectives for the work directed. Manage the development of policy changes in response to changes in levels of appropriations or other legislated changes. Manage organizational changes throughout the organization directed or major change to the structure and content of the program or program segments directed. Exercise discretionary authority to approve the allocation and distribution of funds in the organizations budget. The following are the job specific duties of this position. You will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position. The incumbent formulates short- and long-range program policies, strategies, and objectives for the program and operations for protection against Insider Threats. This includes the design, development, and implementation of programs to support IRS strategic goals and objectives. The incumbent establishes wide spread program objectives and methods to ensure the tax administration business mission, goals, and objectives of the IRS and Treasury are met. The incumbent designs and develops programs, systems, and strategies based on environment scans (both internal and external analysis), existing and emerging risk analysis, and other relevant data. The incumbent provides input to the Chief Risk Officer on legislative, policy, and program issues, as well as, directs the development of activities to build leveraged partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, industry experts, law enforcement agencies, and government entities. Activities include the internal organizational resource planning, direction, and allocation to meet program needs. The incumbent provides leadership in motivating and developing subordinates and implementing quality excellence, diversity, and ethics programs. The incumbent provides direction for monitoring all program phases to integrate existing and future systems into new business systems, including identifying, acquiring, and allocating resources; ensuring timely delivery; staying within budget constraints; and effectively evaluating projects and programs. Actions are taken to utilizes extensive knowledge of proven industry best practices and oversees activities to identify and implement new work processes. STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD24101 Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions.

Requirements

Probationary Period - A person who is required to go through a probationary period and then is transferred, promoted, demoted, or reassigned before he or she completes such period is required to complete the remainder of the probationary period in the new position. Supervisory Probationary Period - Subject to a 1-year supervisory or managerial probationary period (unless already completed). Government Credit Card - Obtain and use a Government-issued charge card for business-related travel. Security Clearance - Obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS SHOWN IN QUALIFICATIONS SECTION

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. To be minimally qualified for this position you must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower level payband or GS grade in the normal line of progression. Specialized experience would include one year of substantive supervisory or program management experience at the GS-13 or GS-14 level or equivalent level manager or comparable management or leadership experiences outside of Federal service. To be qualifying for this position your experience should be sufficient to demonstrate: Experience applying management techniques, methods, theories, principles, and labor relations concepts, sufficient to assure optimum utilization of personnel, equipment, and space, and to accomplish program objectives through combined technical and administrative oversight. Experience planning, directing, and evaluating work of subordinate managers, employees, and/or others. Experience applying appropriate operations, policies, applicable laws, regulations, rules, practices, procedures, and techniques sufficient to provide oversight and direction in the planning, development, and implementation of the technical aspects of programs directly related and/or specific to the position being filled. Experience applying budget and fiscal methods used in establishing and maintaining an organization. Experience working on major programs segments, organizational structures and/or functional responsibilities specific to the position being filled. Experience with enterprise Risk Management tools, practices, and policies to analyze and report enterprise risks, and to manage risks according to an enterprise risk management framework. Experience with the Insider Risk Management (InRM) Program best practices, operations, reporting requirements, and assessments, to form holistic risk mitigation strategies. Experience with Insider Threat Risk Assessments to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses, and provide actionable risk mitigation strategies to detect, deter, and mitigate Insider Threats. Experience with multi-disciplinary security domain functions, including Continuous Vetting, User Behavior Analytics, Risk Analysis and Mitigation. Experience implementing ways to eliminate or reduce significant bottlenecks and barriers to production, promote team building, or improve business practices. Experience with communicating and advising executives, top-level managers, and external stakeholders on mutual risks, critical issues, and problems, ensuring alignment and proactive actions that addressed challenges and supported informed decision-making. 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". For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards. Go to Understanding the IRS Paybands for GS/IR conversion.

Education

A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions. We recommend choosing an evaluator from a member organization of one of the following national associations of credential evaluation services: National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE).

Other Information

Consider each location carefully when applying. If you are selected for a location, that location will become your official post of duty. In the event that a building is closed due to rent management, new hires may be placed in a local commuting location. Additional jobs may be filled from this announcement or any other source to fill these vacancies. Alternative work schedule, staggered work hours may be available. Salary: IRS (IR) Pay Band Locality Pay tables may be found under 2026 - IR Salary Tables. Cost-of-Living Allowances (COLA): Puerto Rico includes COLA. See COLA Rates 2026.