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Position Title
IT SPECIALIST (NETWORK) (TITLE 32)
Agency
Air National Guard Units
Announcement Number
IL-12500633-AF-24-239 Opens in new window
Open Period
Friday, August 9, 2024 to Friday, August 8, 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)
2. Would you accept a temporary appointment? (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. (limit characters)
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 IT related experience demonstrating attention to detail, customer service, oral communication, and problem solving? (limit characters)
2. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Do you possess specialized experience for the GS-09 level which includes 12 months of 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; and experience scheduling the sequence of programs to be processed by computers where alternatives had to be weighed with a view to production efficiency OR do you possess the education substitution of a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree or two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree? Note that degree must be in computer science, engineering, information science, information systems management, mathematics, operations research, statistics, or technology management or degree that provided a minimum of 24 semester hours in one or more of the fields identified above and required the development or adaptation of applications, systems or networks. (limit characters)
3. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Do you possess specialized experience for the GS-11 Level which includes 12 months 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 and experience preparing documentation on cost/benefit studies where is involved summarizing the material and organizing it in a logical fashion OR do you possess the education substitution of a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree? Note that degree must be in computer science, engineering, information science, information systems management, mathematics, operations research, statistics, or technology management or degree that provided a minimum of 24 semester hours in one or more of the fields identified above and required the development or adaptation of applications, systems or networks.
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Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
4. Administer the base Local Area Network (LAN). (limit characters)
5. Plan for current and future technology integration and work issues for compatibility and standardization based on current and projected customer needs. (limit characters)
6. Serve as a network security administrator for a large number of users on the installation. (limit characters)
7. Assist customers on the use of office automation computers, local and wide area networks, and other automated tools. (limit characters)
8. Resolve LAN related problems for the base. (limit characters)
9. Provide customer assistance and training for new network systems. (limit characters)
10. Implement network operating system and/or network application software, and maintain contact with software suppliers to ensure that current releases of software products are in use. (limit characters)
11. Recommend and prepare operating policies and procedures for networks, system operations, and product assembly and installation. (limit characters)
12. Recommend methods and procedures and coordinate corrective action to optimize utilization of present equipment. (limit characters)
13. Conduct problem analysis to identify trends, ineffective practices or procedures, and equipment shortcomings. (limit characters)
14. Identify and document network requirements for specific needs of customers. (limit characters)
15. Conduct in-depth analyses of network usage, user complaints, traffic interruptions, hardware and software capabilities, and other relevant factors. (limit characters)
16. 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 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. (limit characters)