- Position Title
- IT SPECIALIST (CUSTSPT) TITLE 32
- Agency
- Air National Guard Units
- Announcement Number
- IL-12733909-AF-25-017 Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Monday, May 12, 2025 to Monday, May 11, 2026
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Eligibilities
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US Citizens. Are you a US Citizen?
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Are you a current National Guard member within the state for which this position is being advertised?
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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.
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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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.
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.
Preferences
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Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position.
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Would you accept a temporary appointment?
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.
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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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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?
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".
(limit 20 characters)
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.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
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Specialized Experience: Do you possess specialized experience for the GS-09 Level, which includes at least 12 months at the lower level GS-07, 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?
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Specialized Experience: Do you possess specialized experience for the GS-11 Level, which includes at least 12 months experience at the lower level GS-09, 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?
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Perform system audits to assess security parameters and performance of Information Assurance controls within the network environment.
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Continually survey system operation to identify potential systems problems which could lead to loss or serious interruption of service.
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Use detailed knowledge of concepts, principles, methods, and practices with sophisticated diagnostic equipment and complex diagnostic software to identify and resolve internal system and network conflicts.
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Optimize the functionality and performance of hardware and software systems and ensure availability, integrity, efficiency, and reliability of system/functional resources.
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Oversee and initiate corrective or preventative measures to rectify immediate problems and prevent future occurrences.
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Provide management with information necessary to address difficult and complex problems in automating work processes.
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Run tests to verify operability and functionality, analyze hardware and software malfunctions to resolve physical and logical processing problems, and recommend acquisition of programs.
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Provide proactive consultation and instruction with system users and technical specialists to ensure seamless implementation of changes.
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Provide ongoing technical support to customers to ensure proper functional use of equipment and programs and to preclude undue interruptions to IT and communications services.
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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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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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Conduct in-depth analyses of system usage, user complaints, traffic interruptions, hardware and software capabilities, and other relevant factors.
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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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Determine customer requirements and assist customers by recognizing and analyzing trends and providing instruction and orientation services.
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Troubleshoot and diagnose system failures to isolate source of problems and provide customer technical assistance and support for all users.
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Serve as a focal point for ensuring functionality and operability of assigned Information Technology/data systems/functions, voice and wireless systems to support mission requirements.
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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.