Attachment_E_supplement__FSA_IGSS_Functional_Labor_Category_Descriptions.pdf

Attachment E supplement

FSA IGSS Functional Labor Category Descriptions

Series AA - Administrative Assistant Level II (AA02) - Provide administrative support specifically dedicated to the requirements of the project team. Perform a wide range of clerical and administrative duties including, for example, typing, filing, tracking of time records, word processing, dictation, and composition of correspondence. Commensurate experience and education.

Administrative Assistant - Level II

Series AD - Application Systems Analyst Provide analysis and design of business systems for different applications such as: financial, accounting, human resources, and other enterprise systems. Handle test scripts and service requirements; work closely with end users on project development and implementation. Analysts should have a working knowledge of relational database environments, structured analysis, data modeling, information engineering, mathematical model building, sampling, and cost accounting to plan the system. Specify the inputs to be accessed by the system, design the processing steps, and format the output to meet the users' needs. Prepare cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to help management decide whether implementing the proposed system will be financially feasible. Possess excellent verbal and written communications skills.

Application Systems Analyst

Series AF - Business Analyst Level II (AF02) - Assist in applying common best practices for the industry to the customer using a knowledge base to create conceptual business models and to identify relevant issues and considerations in selecting application software packages. Assess the operational and functional baseline of an organization and its organizational components, and help to define the direction and strategy for an engagement while ensuring the organizational needs are being addressed. Typical areas addressed include Human Resources, Finance, Supply, and operations. Identify information technology inadequacies and/or deficiencies that affect the functional area’s ability to support/meet organizational goals. Support the development of functional area strategies for enhanced IT. Commensurate experience and education.

Business Analyst - Level II

Series AG - Business Process Reengineering Specialist

Level I (AG01) - Apply process improvement, reengineering methodologies, and internet-related methodologies and principles to conduct process modernization projects. Assist senior staff with effective transitioning of existing organizations or project teams in accomplishing the organization’s goals or project activities and objectives through improved use of internet and other automated processes. Support activity and data modeling, development of modern business methods, identification of best practices, and creating and assessing performance measurements. Provide group facilitation, interviewing, training, and additional forms of knowledge transfer. Commensurate education and experience.

Business Process Reengineering Specialist - Level I

Series AG - Business Process Reengineering

Level II (AG02) – Apply process improvement, reengineering methodologies, and internet-related methodologies and principles to conduct process modernization projects. Responsible for transitioning of existing organizations or project teams in accomplishing the organization’s goals or project activities and objectives through improved use of internet and other automated processes. Support activity and data modeling, development of modern business methods, identification of best practices, and creating and assessing performance measurements. Provide group facilitation, interviewing, training, and additional forms of knowledge transfer. May provide daily supervision and direction to other contractor business reengineering specialists and web architects. Commensurate education and experience.

Business Process Reengineering Specialist -

Series AP - Computer Systems Analyst Level II (AP02) - Analyze and develop computer software possessing a wide range of capabilities, including numerous engineering, business, and records management functions. Develop plans for automated information systems from project inception to conclusion. Analyze user interfaces, maintain hardware and software performance tuning, analyze workload and computer usage, maintain interfaces with outside systems, analyze downtimes, and analyze proposed system modifications, upgrades and new COTS. Analyze the problem and the information to be processed. Define the problem, and develops system requirements and program specifications, from which programmers prepare detailed flow charts, programs, and tests. Coordinate closely with programmers to ensure proper implementation of program and system specifications. Develop, in conjunction with functional users, system alternative solutions.

Computer Systems Analyst -

Series AR - Cost Analyst Level II (AR02) - Perform complex functional economic analysis to evaluate the costs of alternative ways to accomplish functional objectives, analyze investment costs, benefits, and risks as a net change to the functional baseline cost, and the cost of doing business now and in the future, ensuring that cross-functional, security, and other integration issues are addressed. Commensurate education and training.

Cost Analyst - Level II

Series AT - Data Security Specialist Provide support to plan, coordinate, and implement the organization’s information security. Provide support for facilitating and helping agencies identify their current security infrastructure and define future programs, design and implementation of fire-wall and other related security issues on LANs/WANs. A working knowledge of several of the following areas is required: understanding of business security practices and procedures; knowledge of current security tools available; hardware/software firewalls and their implementation; different communication protocols;

encryption techniques/tools; familiarity with commercial products (ex. - Domain Name Systems, public–key encryption technology, Smartcard, Cyberguard, TimeStep), and current Internet and electronic commerce technology.

Data Security Specialist

Series AU - Data Standardization Specialist Provide technical support in the evaluation of prime object names, data elements, and other objects. Evaluate proposed objects and their attributes. Ensure that proposed object definitions are clear, concise, technically correct, and that they represent singular concepts. Ensure that the values of object attributes and domains are accurate and correct. Ensure that the proposed objects are consistent with data and process models.

Data Standardization

Series BI - Facilitator Assist group members of teams formed in developing information system specifications and functionality to communicate their ideas, information, and opinions more effectively. Manage the team meetings and workshops. Keep the team focused on the subject at hand to achieve objectives. Assures discussions are brought to conclusion.

Facilitator

Series BW - Information Engineer Level I (BW01) – Apply business process improvement practices to re-engineer methodologies/principles and business process modernization projects. Apply, as appropriate, activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control and risk analysis and modern business methods and performance measurement techniques. Assist in establishing standards for information systems procedures. Develop and apply organization-wide information models for use in designing and building integrated, shared software and database management systems and data warehouses. Construct sound, logical business improvement opportunities consistent with corporate Information Management guiding principles, cost savings, and open system architecture objectives.

Information Engineer - Level I

Series CA - IT Strategic/Capital Planner Provide strategic planning of large projects or a significant segment of a strategic planning portion of a large complex project. Provide the overall approach to clarify mission statements so they can be used as springboards in envisioning their desired future. Assist in developing mission and vision statements, subsequent goal delineation, provide guidance for building operational plans and specifying measurable outcomes to include capital outlay planning efforts in a consolidated strategic planning process and prioritizes those initiatives. Assist in preparation of key strategic planning documentation, including Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Form 300.

IT Strategic/Capital Planner

Series CM - Program Administration Specialist Assist in the preparation of management plans and reports.

Coordinate schedules to facilitate completion of proposals, contract deliverables, task order review, briefings/presentations, and in-process review preparation.

Perform analysis, development, and review of program administrative operating procedures.

Program Administration

Series CO - Program Manager Serve as the program manager typically responsible for organizing, directing, and managing all aspects of contract operational support functions involving multiple complex and inter-related project tasks that often require managing teams of contractor personnel at multiple locations. Provide overall direction of program activities. Manage and maintain contractor interface with the senior levels of the customer’s organization. Consult with customer and contractor personnel to formulate and review task plans and deliverables, ensuring conformance with program and project task schedules and costs and contractual obligations. Establish and maintain technical and financial reports to show progress of projects to management and customers, organize and assign responsibilities to subordinates, oversee the successful completion of all assigned tasks, and assume the initiative and provide support to marketing personnel in identifying and acquiring potential business.

Program Manager

Series CP - Project Control Specialist Direct all financial management and administrative activities, such as budgeting, manpower and resource planning and financial reporting. Perform complex evaluations of existing procedures, processes, techniques, models, and/or systems related to management problems or contractual issues, which would require a report and recommend solutions. Develop work breakdown structures, prepare charts, tables, graphs, and diagrams to assist in analyzing problems. Provide daily supervision and direction to staff.

Project Control Specialist

Series CR - Project Manager Level I (CR01) – Typically oversee all aspects of the project, leading a team on large projects or a significant segment of large and complex projects. Analyze new and complex project-related problems and create innovative solutions that normally involve the schedule, technology, methodology, tools, solution components, and financial management of the project. Provide applications systems analysis and long and short-range plans for application selection, systems development, systems maintenance, and production activities for necessary support resources. Commensurate experience and education for the specific level.

Project Manager - Level I

Series CZ - Subject Matter Expert Level I (CZ01) – Provide technical knowledge and analysis of highly specialized applications and operational environment, high-level functional systems analysis, design, integration, documentation and implementation advice on moderately complex problems that require an appropriate level of knowledge of the subject matter for effective implementation. Apply principles, methods and knowledge of the functional area of capability to specific task order requirements, advanced mathematical principles and methods to exceptionally difficult and narrowly defined technical problems in engineering and other scientific applications to arrive at automated solutions. Assist other senior consultants with analysis and evaluation and with the preparation of recommendations for system improvements, optimization, development, and/or maintenance efforts in the following specialties: information systems architecture, networking; telecommunications, automation; communications protocols, risk management/electronic analysis, software; lifecycle management, software development methodologies, and modeling and simulation. Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that directly relates to the required area of expertise.

Subject Matter Expert - Level I

Series CZ - Subject Matter Expert Level II (CZ02) – Analyze user needs to determine functional requirements and define problems and develop plans and requirements in the subject matter area for moderately complex to complex systems related to information systems architecture, networking;

telecommunications, automation, communications protocols, risk management/electronic analysis, software, lifecycle management, software development methodologies, and modeling and simulation. Perform functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships. Identify resources required for each task. Possess requisite knowledge and expertise so recognized in the professional community that the government is able to qualify the individual as an expert in the field for an actual task order. Demonstrate exceptional oral and written communication skills. Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that directly relates to the required area of expertise.

II

Series CZ - Subject Matter Expert Level III (CZ03) – Provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for problem definition, analysis, requirements development, and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems in the subject matter area. Make recommendations and advise on organization-wide system improvements, optimization or maintenance efforts in the following specialties: information systems architecture; networking; telecommunications;

automation; communications protocols; risk management/electronic analysis; software; lifecycle management; software development methodologies; and modeling and simulation. Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that directly relates to the required area of expertise.

III

Series DB - Systems Architect Level I (DB01) – Establish system information requirements using analysis of the information engineer(s) in the development of enterprise-wide or large-scale information systems. Design architecture to include the software, hardware, and communications to support the total requirements as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces. Ensure these systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for open systems architectures, the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and ISO reference models, and profiles of standards - such as Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Open Systems Environment (OSE) reference model - as they apply to the implementation and specification of information management solution of the application platform, across the Application Program Interface (API), and the external environment/software application. Ensure that the common operating environment is compliant with the Agency enterprise architecture and applicable reference models. Evaluate analytically and systematically problems of workflows, organization, and planning and develop appropriate corrective action. Provide daily supervision and direction to staff.

Systems Architect - Level I

Series DD - System Operator Monitor and support computer processing. Coordinate input, output, and file media. Distribute output and controls computer operation that may be mainframe, mini, or client/server based.

System Operator

Series DF - Technical Writer/Editor Level I (DF01) – Assist in writing and/or editing technical documents, including business proposals, reports, user manuals, briefings and presentations, functional descriptions, system specifications, guidelines, special reports, and other project deliverables to meet contract requirements. Develop outlines and drafts for review and approval by technical specialists and project management ensuring that final documents meet applicable contract requirements and regulations. Research and gather technical and background information for inclusion in project documentation and deliverables. Consult relevant information sources, including library resources, technical and financial documents, and client and project personnel, to obtain background information, and verify pertinent guidelines and regulations governing project deliverables. Commensurate experience, education, and level of supervision and direction.

Technical Writer/Editor - Level I

Series DK - Training Specialist Level II (DK02) – Conduct the research necessary to develop and revise training courses. Develop and revise courses and prepare appropriate training catalogs. Prepare instructor materials (course outline, background material, and training aids). Prepare student materials (course manuals, workbooks, handouts, completion certificates, and course critique forms). Train personnel by conducting formal classroom courses, workshops and seminars. Prepare reports and monitor training tasks in support of the goals of the Contractor Program Manager and the government sponsor(s) using standard training standards and software and hardware programs such as modeling and simulation and prototyping efforts. Provide input to the Project Lead and the Contractor Program Manager on which decisions for training validation and or modifications of specified items or systems can be corrected. Commensurate education and experience.

Training Specialist - Level II

Series DL - Web Content Administrator Provide support for developing and providing Agency Web-site content that will motivate and satisfy government and civilian users’ needs so that they will regularly access the site and utilize it as a major source for information, decision making and benefits delivery. Provide support for maintaining civil service handbook and policies/procedures on the agency Web; assisting in developing agency newsletter and civilian benefits communications;

recommending new and innovative web uses as well as training and educating employees on the use and benefits of using the Web. Provide support in the location and pursuit of content and surveying internal customers to gather feedback for site improvement and enhancements.

A working knowledge of several of the following are required: English (or Spanish), Journalism, graphic design or a related field, Web-site management, web servers, intranet site structures, and Web-related software (ex. - MS FrontPage, Dream Weaver, Access, HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and Web 2.0 software such as wikis, portals, and Microsoft Sharepoint).

Web Content Administrator