The IRS Internal Recent Graduates Program affords a developmental opportunity to IRS employees, who have graduated within the previous 2 years from a qualifying educational institution or program. In addition, the IRS implemented the new IRS Recent Graduate Program that includes an additional year of formal development, training, networking, project teams, and may include rotational assignments.
Upon successful completion of the program requirements, you will be permanently placed at the grade level within the position's career path, not higher than the full-working level of the position selected, to which you meet qualifications and time-in-grade requirements. If for any reason do not successfully complete the program you will be returned to the previous grade of the same or similar position you previously held within IRS prior to being selected for the Recent Graduates Program. Program requirements include but are not limited to:
- Successful completion of at least 1 to 2 years of continuous service depending on the position;
- Completion of at least 40 hours of interactive training;
- Mentorship;
- Demonstration of successful job performance; and
- Meet the qualification position standards.
If selected, you will be placed in a developmental position as a IT Specialist (Systems Analysis/Applications Software), GS-2210-5/7/9 with promotion potential to GS-12 in the division listed below:
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)
A description of the business unit can be found at:
https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.
The employee works in one or more areas of systems analysis and applications software design,
maintenance, or modification performing work assignments such as the following:
- Plans, develops, schedules and conducts systems acceptability tests of modernization and production systems; including Tier I and Tier II applications for mission critical tax processing and internal support systems.
- Provides technical guidance during a significant project in designing, coding, testing, debugging, and maintaining programs; translating and interpreting functional requirements;
- Translates and interprets functional requirements involved with the local phase of national project;
- Tests software during a significant local project or as needed to support applications which have a broad impact;
- Provides guidance to less experienced coworkers in solving programming problems;
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
This position has career progression. If you are selected at a grade level lower than the full working level, you may be non-competitively promoted as your career progresses. For example, you may be hired as a GS-05, but if the position has career progression to GS-11, then you may move from a GS-05 to a GS-11 in as little as three years.
Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or