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Position Title
SUPV IT PROJECT MANAGER (APPSW/INFOSEC)
Agency
National Defense University
Announcement Number
NDU-DHA-25-12686410-EB Opens in new window
Open Period
Thursday, February 13, 2025 to Thursday, February 20, 2025
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1. Do you claim Veterans’ Preference? (limit characters)
Preferences
1. Are you a retired Federal employee receiving an annuity from the Office of Personnel Management? NOTE: If you answered yes to this question, attach a copy of your retirement Standard Form 50 to your application. (limit characters)
2. Are you a current or former (within last five-years) Executive Branch political appointee; Schedule C excepted service appointee (confidential, policy or transitional role), or non-career or limited appointee in the Senior Executive Service (SES)?

Agencies must request OPM approval to appoint the following current or former (within five-years) Executive Branch political appointees to permanent competitive service, non-political excepted service, or career SES positions:
https://www.opm.gov/FAQs/QA.aspx?fid=023f2059-dff7-4307-89b4-c553c218af1d&pid=08248d29-d26e-44b6-9988-57655358d509
(limit characters)
Assessment 1
Please accurately identify your level of training or experience when completing this questionnaire. Your responses will be evaluated and verified based on your submitted resume. Ensure that your resume accurately describes the level of education and/or experience claimed in the assessment questionnaire. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your stated level of experience and demonstrated capability. By continuing in the application process, I acknowledge that my self-assessment questionnaire score may be reduced, and I may lose consideration for this position if the work experience described in my resume does not support my responses to the assessment questionnaire. (limit characters)
1. From the descriptions below, select the letter which corresponds to the highest level of experience or education which you fully possess and demonstrates your IT-related work experience addressing the four competencies, in the vacancy announcement, and your ability to perform the work of an SUPV IT PROGRAM MANAGER (APPSW/INFOSEC) at the GS-14 grade level. Select only one letter for each item. (limit characters)
2. Evaluate application changes to ensure compliance with organizational needs and/or requirements. (limit characters)
3. Evaluate IT requirements to determine if configuration upgrades or modifications are needed. (limit characters)
4. Which of the following stages of the IT configuration management process do you have experience with? (Select all that apply.) (limit characters)
5. Coordinate the delivery of IT customer support solutions (e.g., delivery of new hardware, software upgrades, system maintenance) to minimize interruption to service operations. (limit characters)
6. Develop plans for remedying recurring IT customer issues (e.g., software bugs, performance limitation, service gap). (limit characters)
7. Resolve problems (e.g., hardware, software, user training) in response to customer incidents. (limit characters)
8. Conduct a risk assessment to identify risk to an IT system and/or an organization's mission. (limit characters)
9. Evaluate a proposed IT system to ensure it adheres to cybersecurity policies, principles, or practices. (limit characters)
10. Implement IT security control measures to mitigate risk and/or comply with organizational, industry, or government policies. (limit characters)
11. Select the response that best represents your level of knowledge of emerging technology and its impact on cybersecurity architecture. (limit characters)
For each item, select the one response that most accurately describes your current level of experience and capability using the scale below. (limit characters)
12. Advise information producers and in-house technical information and computer specialists on electronic publishing techniques, methods, and procedures in a networked environment. (limit characters)
13. Analyze results of assessments, inspections and other data sources to determine threats to networks and implement changes to reduce the risks identified. (limit characters)
14. Identify technical interrelationships to understand architecture, design and program dependency impacts. (limit characters)
15. Integrate enterprise security programs, compliance efforts and National Institute of Technology and Standards (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements based on knowledge of System Security, System Development Life Cycle and System Life Cycle Management methodologies. (limit characters)
16. Serve as a technical authority for application software to ensure effective, economical, and advanced technical management of customer computing requirements for assigned application(s) development and analysis. (limit characters)
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s). (limit characters)
17. Do you certify, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all of the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.)? Do you understand that the information provided may be investigated? Do you understand that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in or with your application may be grounds for not hiring you or for firing you after you begin work? Do you also understand that false or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001)? (limit characters)