Supervisory IT Specialist

Summary
This position is assigned to the Nonappropriated Fund (NAF), Chief Information Officer (N6), NAF Systems Division (N6Q); Commander, Navy Installation Command, Millington, TN. The incumbent is responsible for evaluating, planning, and delivering customer support services through the NAF enterprise service desk, including configuration, troubleshooting, issue elevation, customer assistance, user onboarding and/or training, in response to customer requirements in accordance with Navy policy.

Duties

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In order to qualify for this position, resumes must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the position. Applicant resumes are the key means for evaluating skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position therefore, applicants are encouraged to be clear and specific when describing experience.
Enterprise Service Desk Operations duties include but are not limited to:

• Researches, evaluates, and provides feedback on problematic trends and patterns in customer support requirements.
• Develops and maintains problem tracking and solution/knowledgebase databases.
• Promotes the use of solution databases to customers and end users to proactively reduce the number of support calls and tickets.
• Develops and manages customer service performance requirements.
• Develops customer support policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensures the rigorous application of information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of customer support services.
• Participates in the planning and delivery of a full range of customer support services to the organization.
• Presents formal and informal training and assistance to customers.
• Ensures all actions taken are documented for future reference, review or audit.
• Manages special projects that have a significant impact on the delivery of customer support services, e.g., new systems, organizational changes.
• Advises management on issues and risks identified by the NAF IT enterprise service desk program.
• Advises management on cost/benefit analysis of service desk programs, policies, processes, and systems, and elements.
• Supervises or manage protective or corrective measures when a cybersecurity incident or vulnerability is discovered and communicates such to cybersecurity program managers.
• Leads the development or modification of the service desk program plans and requirements.
• Maintains constructive working relationships with internal and external partners involved in service desks or related areas.
• Evaluates new technology and systems recommended for implementation in the NAF IT environment.
• Evaluates and recommend changes or additions to system software or hardware as related to service desk operations.
• Defines scope, requirements and deliverables for initiatives assigned.
• Acquires and manages the necessary resources, including leadership support, financial resources, and key security personnel, to support information technology (IT) customer service goals and objectives and reduce overall organizational risk.
• Troubleshoots system hardware and software with assistance of other NAF Systems Division technical staff
• Analyzes incident and service request data for emerging trends, adjusts work tasks and reports regularly to supervisor.
• Diagnoses and resolves customer reported system incidents, problems, service requests and events.
• Recommends and coordinates, based on service desk data analysis, enhancements to software and hardware solutions to enhance customer experience.
• Coordinates the administration of user accounts, network rights, and access to systems and equipment in cooperation with other stakeholders and staff.

Supervisory duties include but are not limited to:

• Provides administrative and/or technical supervision (including hiring, discipline, evaluation, and training) for one Lead IT Specialist and up to eight IT Specialists, NF
• Reviews and approves leave requests.
• Develops section goals and staff responsibilities.
• Provides assistance/support to section staff in problem determination and correction.
• Assigns work based on priorities, difficulty and requirements of assignments, and staff capabilities.
• Manages staff who provide enterprise service desk support for NAF programs and related systems and applications under the oversight of the NAF Systems Division.
• Develops and execute staffing plans and contractor requirements.
• Prioritizes tasks for subordinate staff, respond to assigned taskers and data calls.
• Identifies and addresses workforce planning and management issues (e.g. recruitment, retention, and training).
• Forecast ongoing service demands and ensure support assumptions and staffing are reviewed as necessary.
• Plans, assigns, reviews and accepts, amends or rejects work done by teams and subordinates
• Provides information to the supervisor on the performance of the team and individuals
• Assigns performance ratings, approves awards and takes performance-based corrective actions
• Communicates assignments, milestones and deadlines to the team and individuals based on supervisor's instructions.
• Counsels employees on behavior and initiate disciplinary actions if required.
• Supports Commander, Navy Installations Command's (CNIC) Equal Employment. Opportunity (EEO) policy; fosters a work environment free of discrimination, harassment, and/or reprisal; and ensures equitable treatment of all staff.

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Conditions of employment

• Must pass all applicable records and background check.
• Must successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of employment.
• Must have or be able to obtain and maintain clearance for a Tier 2 (SF 85P) Investigation Non-Sensitive National Security Sensitivity designation and Moderate Risk designation.
• Must be currently employed within the hiring agency; Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC), Nonappropriated Funds (NAF).

Qualifications
**Resumes must include information which demonstrates experience and knowledge, skills, and ability (KSAs) as they relate to this position. Applicants are encouraged to be clear and specific when describing their experience level and KSAs.

A qualified candidate must possess the following:**

• At least 5 years of specialized IT experience with an emphasis in support enterprise systems & software applications, networks, and hardware devices.
• Broad, professional knowledge of IT technology presented by operating systems, systems software applications, telecommunication networks, hardware components and different kinds of cloud services.
• Knowledge of process for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects, relevant contracts, and resources.
• Knowledge of, and skill in of one or more of the following software applications that the CNIC NAF organization supports: enterprise applications (ERP), program support applications (point-of-sale and recreation/activity management systems), commercial global networks, on-premises datacenters, cloud-based environments, and software-as-a-service beyond service desk software applications.
• Mastery of, and skill in applying IT problem management methods and practices.
• Mastery of, and skill in applying new and innovative customer support methods and technologies.
• Knowledge of, and skill in applying service desk support ticketing databases.
• Knowledge of, and skill in applying troubleshooting and data analysis methods.
• Knowledge of, and skill in applying communication methods and techniques.
• Mastery of, and skill in applying customer support concepts, principles, methods, and practices.
• Mastery of, and skill in applying the interrelationships among different IT disciplines.
• Mastery of, and skill in applying project management principles and methods.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
• Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
• Knowledge of measures or indicators of system performance and availability.
• Knowledge of systems administration concepts.
• Knowledge of a broad variety of electronic devices (e.g., desktops, laptops, tablets, access control devices, digital scanners, barcode readers, networking components, printers, mobile phones, etc.).
• Knowledge of system administration concepts for operating systems such as but not limited to Linux, iOS, Android, and Windows operating systems.
• Knowledge of industry best practices for service desk.
• Knowledge of organizational security policies.
• Knowledge of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Personal Health Information (PHI),