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Position Title
IT SPECIALIST (CUSTSPT) (TITLE 32)
Agency
Air National Guard Units
Announcement Number
IL-12361237-AF-24-110 Opens in new window
Open Period
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 to Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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Eligibilities
1. US Citizens.  Are you a US Citizen? (limit characters)
2. Are you a current National Guard member within the state for which this position is being advertised? (limit characters)
3. Are you a current Permanent full-time Dual Status National Guard Technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?

To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Permanent full-time status with the state National Guard.
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4. Are you a current Temporary Indefinite full-time Dual Status National Guard Technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?

To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Indefinite full-time status with the state National Guard.
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Preferences
1. Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position. (limit characters)
Conditions of Employment
This position has requirements which must be met prior to employment, and conditions for continued employment. Your answers to the questions in this section will indicate your understanding of, or possession of, these requirements and conditions. (limit characters)
1. I have a valid, current state driver's license or I am able and willing to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license.
 
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2. This position requires membership in the IL Air National Guard (IL ANG). If you are not willing or are ineligible to join the IL ANG, please do not apply to this announcement. If selected, you MUST be or become a member of the Selected IL ANG.

Do you possess an IL ANG membership, or are you willing to obtain, and maintain a membership in the IL ANG?
 
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3. Please type your current RANK, AFSC/MOS, and UNIT in the space provided below.

If you are a member of another branch of service, please include your branch, rank and military specialty.

Prior service members should include their last rank held and military specialty.

Civilians should type "N/A".   
 
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Assessment 1
Respond to all questions. For each, choose the response that best describes your experience and/or training. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide in your resume or application. (limit characters)
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s). (limit characters)
1. GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Do you possess experience, education or training that has provided a basic knowledge of data processing functions and general management principles that enabled you to understand the stages required to automate a work process; experience may have been gained in work such as computer operator or assistant, computer sales representative, program analyst, or other positions that required the use or adaptation of computer programs and systems? (limit characters)
2. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Do you possess specialized experience for the GS-9 Level which includes at least 1-year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade; experience, education, or training receiving, maintaining, and issuing data storage media for computer operations; experience in scheduling the use of computer time for program processing; experience collecting and sequentially staging input media with associated program instructions for processing; experience in at least one programming language; translating detailed logical steps developed by others into language codes that computers accept where this required understanding of procedures and limitations appropriate to use of a programming language; experience interviewing subject-matter personnel to get facts regarding work processes and synthesizing the resulting data into charts showing information flow; experience in analysis of the interrelationship of pertinent components of the system; experience planning the sequence of actions necessary to accomplish the assignment; experience scheduling the sequence of programs to be processed by computers where alternatives had to be weighed with a view to production efficiency? (limit characters)
3. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Do you possess specialized experience for the GS-11 Level which includes at least 1-year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 level; experience, education, or training that approaches techniques and requirements appropriate to an assigned computer applications area or computer specialty area in an organization; experience planning the sequence of actions necessary to accomplish the assignment where this entailed coordination with others outside the organizational unit and development of project controls; experience that required adaptations of guidelines or precedents to meet the needs of the assignment; experience preparing documentation on cost/benefit studies where is involved summarizing the material and organizing it in a logical fashion? (limit characters)
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
4. Provide customer technical assistance and support for all users.
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5. Work with the CFP and customers to resolve integration or configuration related issues associated with a variety of different system platforms, operating systems, applications, and equipment configurations.
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6. Work with customers to ensure efficient operations which support each units' requirements.
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7. Determine customer requirements and assist customers by recognizing and analyzing trends and providing instruction and orientation services.
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8. Plan, coordinate, install, and continuously analyze system design, hardware and software.
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9. Analyze, manage, and direct installation of any new hardware or software introduced into the environment to ensure its compatibility with existing architecture, its reliability, and functionality in relation to the organization's business requirements.
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10. Track life of system equipment, prepare and provide analyses to determine future maintenance and replacement costs to help justify budget submissions.
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11. Recommend methods and procedures and coordinate corrective action to optimize utilization of present equipment.
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12. Perform system audits to assess security parameters and performance of IA controls within the network environment.
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13. Optimize the functionality and performance of hardware and software systems and ensure availability, integrity, efficiency, and reliability of system/functional resources while managing the communications focal point coordination and workload distribution duties.
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14. Perform testing, troubleshoot, correct problems, and distribute workload relative to interface and interoperability of system components such as hardware, systems software, and applications programs.
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15. Assess and mitigate security vulnerabilities of installed system hardware and software.
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16. Develop, recommend, and install solutions and upgrade to ensure availability, integrity, efficiency, and reliability of all components of the assigned system.
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17. Run tests to verify operability and functionality; analyze hardware and software malfunctions to resolve physical and logical processing problems; and recommend acquisition of programs, process or equipment which will resolve operational problems.
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18. Oversee and initiate corrective or preventative measures to rectify immediate problems and prevent future occurrences through the CFP.
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19. Respond to trouble reports by analyzing problems, providing solutions, and recommending actions necessary to avoid future difficulties such as enhancing, replacing, or modifying existing programs, applications, and equipment.
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20. Your responses in this Assessment Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information will be grounds for disqualifying you or for dismissing you from employment following acceptance. Please take this opportunity to review your responses to ensure their accuracy. If you fail to answer this question, you will be disqualified from consideration for this position. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all of the information included in this questionnaire is true, correct, and provided in good faith. I understand that if I make an intentional false statement, or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any document or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 U.S.C. 1001); my eligibilities may be canceled, I may be denied an appointment, or I may be removed and debarred from Federal service (5 C.F.R. part 731). I understand that any information I give may be investigated. I understand that responding "No" to this item will result in my not being considered for this position.
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