Total 58 customer service job vacancies in 0905 columbia md

Explains services, policies, procedures, and rules and regulations and provides necessary assistance to customers in initiating their service requests; researches job status as requested by customers. Creates work orders for customers; verifies work order information for completeness; reviews requested completion times and forwards work order to proper processing area. Communicates with production supervisory staff to coordinate the processing of rush work orders and requests. Communicates regularly with customers; notifies customers of completion of proofs and/or work order requests. Assists in providing quality checks and maintaining efficient workflow. Maintains manual and electronic records and/or production logs to track work orders; reviews production shift summary reports and completed work orders for accuracy; participates in work generation at the Customer Service counter and records documentation. Other duties as assigned.

Major duties for this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Serve as the Customer Service Branch Chief for headquarters and key advisor to the Division Chief of Enterprise Service Desk on short and long range-goals for the Support Center (a.k.a. Enterprise Service Desk) in customer experience, operations, efficiencies, and quality of services.
• Lead the agency-wide, fast-paced Support Center team that is the single point of contact for IT and Applications support at the Department of Labor. Works with other IT managers to provide a cohesive customer experience.
• Lead and coordinate the Level 0 (self-service) services (e.g., web portal, chatbot, knowledge base).
• Oversee the 24/7 Level 1 (phone) support services. Apply industry standards and uses technology solutions and processes to ensure timely and quality support services on first contact.
• Manage the main walk-in location where consistent Level 2 (desk-side) services such as break-fix, IT hardware repairs and exchanges, and user support are provided.
• Apply the appropriate industry frameworks within the Support Center to fulfil the organization's vision, mission, and goals; ensuring high quality and cost-effective IT service delivery and a robust continuous improvement approach.
• Monitor and report on service level targets for incidents, problems, and requests fulfilment; regularly presenting performance results to the Agency executive leadership.
• Maintain and test contingency plans to ensure high availability of the Support Center services.
• Formulate and defend IT budget proposals and ensures maximum efficiency and cost-effectiveness in the use of IT resources.
• Develop performance standards and evaluates work performance of direct reports.
• Serve as one of the program managers for the labor services support contract.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Major duties for this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Serve as the Customer Service Branch Chief for headquarters and key advisor to the Division Chief of Enterprise Service Desk on short and long range-goals for the Support Center (a.k.a. Enterprise Service Desk) in customer experience, operations, efficiencies, and quality of services.
• Lead the agency-wide, fast-paced Support Center team that is the single point of contact for IT and Applications support at the Department of Labor. Works with other IT managers to provide a cohesive customer experience.
• Lead and coordinate the Level 0 (self-service) services (e.g., web portal, chatbot, knowledge base).
• Oversee the 24/7 Level 1 (phone) support services. Apply industry standards and uses technology solutions and processes to ensure timely and quality support services on first contact.
• Manage the main walk-in location where consistent Level 2 (desk-side) services such as break-fix, IT hardware repairs and exchanges, and user support are provided.
• Apply the appropriate industry frameworks within the Support Center to fulfil the organization's vision, mission, and goals; ensuring high quality and cost-effective IT service delivery and a robust continuous improvement approach.
• Monitor and report on service level targets for incidents, problems, and requests fulfilment; regularly presenting performance results to the Agency executive leadership.
• Maintain and test contingency plans to ensure high availability of the Support Center services.
• Formulate and defend IT budget proposals and ensures maximum efficiency and cost-effectiveness in the use of IT resources.
• Develop performance standards and evaluates work performance of direct reports.
• Serve as one of the program managers for the labor services support contract.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Being a Customer Experience Strategist makes you a valuable member of the Office of Innovation. You will oversee the planning, coordination, development, and completion of complex and varied projects to extract, transform, and load data into relational and non-relational data stores. Typical assignments include:

• Incorporates modern techniques and methods to present information and material to target audiences.
• Develops mechanisms for gathering or using existing quantitative and qualitative data to help stakeholders understand their customers; develop insights to inform decision-making, identify and scope problems; and embark on new research areas worth exploring through innovative methods.
• Demonstrated the ability to effectively outline and identify business workflows and requirements.
• Work with stakeholders across organizations, functions, and levels to build customer understanding and solve challenging problems, empower teams to move forward by developing metrics, measuring results, and integrating new methodologies into existing systems.
• Defines the overall goals and objectives of the user experience function or specific issues by meeting with OIG leadership.
• Provides input and recommendations to the development or changes on human centered design information for technical and operational feasibility and adherence with project objectives.
• Recommends actions on projects or broad, agency-wide strategic initiatives.
• Establishes a system to review, control and report on user experience development status.
• Designs and undertakes complex management studies, initiatives, or data gathering efforts, where the boundaries of the studies are extremely broad and difficult to determine in advance, i.e., the actual limits of the project are developed as the study proceeds.
• Defines the overall goals and objectives of the customer experience function or specific issues by meeting with stakeholders.
• Works with customers to evaluate their mission requirements, identify the target audience, and define objectives/goals of the requested project, business flow or requirements where these may not have been identified.
• Documents, package and present findings, insights and recommendations via reports, presentations and/or other outputs as needed. Make research findings relevant and impactful for design and action through a variety of formats such as insights, stories, videos, experiences, and exhibits.
• Prepares reports summarizing proposed long- and short- term organizational customer experience goals.
• Communicates ideas, research, concepts, methods, analyses, evaluations, and makes recommendations in a logical and convincing manner.
• Facilitates regular discussions with customers to gather requirements, assess user experiences, and plan future work.
• Actively participates and plans meetings with customers focused on identifying workflows, requirements, problems and resolving issues.

Enterprise Measurement and Design (EMD) manages a large and diverse design portfolio of collaborative work within both VEO and VA, as well as across other federal agencies. The incumbent will serve as a national level CX Strategist performing duties as follows:

• Serve as technical advisor in matters, issues, and questions pertaining to customer experience and/or assigned areas and identify, develop, manage, and lead initiatives to improve customer experience and service delivery, increase administration/organization/program/service customer experience maturity, and apply government-wide leading practices outlined in A-11 Section 280 and from the private, state, local, and other sectors.
• Design and undertakes complex management studies, initiatives, or data gathering efforts, where the boundaries of the studies are extremely broad and difficult to determine in advance, i.e., the actual limits of the project are developed as the study proceeds. Studies are typically designed to provide information that assists management in the administration's diverse program areas, improve program delivery, and identify actual or potential problem areas impacting program operations and customer experience in the short and long term.
• Work with stakeholders across organizations, functions and levels to build customer understanding and solve challenging problems, empower teams to move forward by developing metrics, measuring results, and integrating new methodologies into existing systems.
• Develop mechanisms for gathering or using existing quantitative and qualitative data to help stakeholders understand their customers; develop insights to inform decision-making, identify and scope problems; and embark on new research areas worth exploring through
  innovative methods. This could include designing surveys, conducting interviews, focus groups, usability test session, secondary research, observational studies, etc.
• Review, evaluate, distill and synthesize data to uncover issues, identify trends and provide insights that drive organizational strategy.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, meetings and/or other interactive sessions to gather feedback and insight from key customers and stakeholders.
• Document, package and present findings, insights and recommendations via reports, presentations and/or other outputs as needed. Make research findings relevant and impactful for design and action through a variety of formats such as insights, stories, videos,
  experiences and exhibits.
• Build understanding within programs and services of who their customers are, the needs trying to be met and value the public seeks from VA services, and the moments that matter most.
• Creatively gather and package compelling customer feedback, research, and other data to develop insights to support leadership decision-making.
• Bring together the right people and supporting culture to develop strategies for improving CX, and plan for achieving measurable outcomes.
• Act as a relentless entrepreneur driving opportunities and projects through to completion creatively within a bureaucracy, while maintaining respect for colleagues and tactfully building coalitions of support.
• Work alongside colleagues to embed human-centered design practices so that others can both benefit from these approaches and learn methods for sustainable change.

The SES Candidate Development Program (CDP) offers a comprehensive series of developmental experiences aimed at preparing high-potential individuals for roles within the Senior Executive Service (SES). This demanding program requires participants to complete the curriculum while managing their regular job responsibilities. Developmental experiences include formal classroom training, seminars, and a 120-day executive-level assignment outside of the participant's current Directorate/Office or chain of command, designed to build the competencies necessary for successful SES performance. Throughout the program, participants will collaborate with an Executive Mentor to create a personalized Executive Development Plan, which will guide their development throughout the program. In addition, tuition costs are the responsibility of the candidate's organization.

SES CDP PROGRAM CURRICULUM:

• Program Duration: The program is an intensive leadership development program which lasts 18 months. Applicants selected to the program from within DOC will remain in their full-time position of record while completing program requirements.
• Orientation Session: The SES CDP begins with a mandatory one-day virtual orientation. The required orientation will occur in Spring/Summer 2025.
• Executive Mentor: Candidates must identify an Executive mentor who will assist in clarifying their developmental objectives and identifying developmental assignments and activities.
• Executive Development Plan (EDP): The EDP is used to identify, track, and document completion of competency-based needs of the participants.
• Interagency Learning: 80 hours of formal interagency development over the course of the program, focusing on the Executive Core Qualifications and their relevance to SES positions across the federal government.
• Developmental Assignments (DA): Candidates will complete a minimum 120-day executive-level DA outside the candidate's current Directorate and or chain of command.
• Supplemental Activity: Candidates will be required to complete a minimum of two supplemental activities.
• 360 Assessment and Coaching: Each candidate will be required to complete a 360-degree assessment, which is designed to determine the competencies which will be developed during the program and also required to complete all coaching hours.
• Qualifications Review Board (QRB) Certification: Candidates who successfully complete the program and receive certification of their executive core qualifications by an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Review Board (QRB) under the criterion of 5 U.S.C. 3393(c)(2)(B), will be eligible for initial noncompetitive appointment to the SES.

• Serves as advisor to the Assistant Chief Information Officer (ACIO) on all aspects of the Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) systems and applications, databases, tools, and services.
• Provides centralized design, development, and maintenance support of the FPAC systems, applications and tools.
• Manages the implementation of business solutions as designed and planned with minimum impact to ongoing business operations.
• In partnership with the Department, ensures the continuity of IT services in the event of a major disruption to the business and ensures the stability and reliability of systems under extremely heavy workload requirements.
• Participates with the business customers and the Chief, Information Assurance Branch, in developing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to establish service requirement and problem resolution expectations and timeframes

At the entry level of this position, you will:

• Conduct Working Capital Fund (WCF) IT Service Management and IT Business Studies, monitor the assigned Agency IT services and the WCF Data Processing activities, and evaluate service performance to provide recommendations to Service Management Branch (SMB) and WCFD leadership to meet divisional objectives.
• Provide advice, guidance, and recommendations to management and other specialists on routine project management issues; Assist in identifying and communicating project risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Support IT Technical Teams, Contracting Officer Representatives (COR), and WCF Accountants to ensure compliance with plans, policies, standards, infrastructures, and architectures that establish the framework for the management of all WCF IT services and customer support applications.
• Provide WCF customer support and services as in identifying conventional IT service delivery issues, conducting analyses, resolving service delivery problems, suggesting improvements, and making recommendations to management

When entering a Federal job at a grade level lower than the highest promotion potential level, you may be promoted to more complex duties and work more independently, as your career progresses.  NOTE:  Career ladder promotions are not automatic, and all eligibility and qualifications requirements must be met in order to progress to the next grade level.

You will spend less than 25% of your work time on contracts, grants/cooperative agreements, and/or interagency agreements.

One or more positions may be filled (in the organization advertised and/or in other organizations), if appropriate to the position.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 150 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 150th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Protective Service Specialist, GS-1801-12, you will be responsible for:

• Incumbent is responsible, during her/his shift for the security of the Secretary, to and from her/his residence and office, while attending events and meetings both official and personal inside and outside her/his office, while on travel within the United States and overseas, and during periods of heightened threats or federal government alert that would require continuous protection.   
• Serving as a Personal Protection Specialist and assists in the development and planning for the protection of the Secretary of Education and when appropriate, the Deputy Secretary of Education.     
• Assisting in investigations concerning threats to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary. Coordinates official liaison activities with the United States Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Capitol Police and other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, relating to the personal protective security operations of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary.   

As a Protective Service Specialist, GS-1801-13, you will be responsible for:

• Incumbent is responsible, during her/his shift for the security of the Secretary, to and from her/his residence and office, while attending events and meetings both official and personal inside and outside her/his office, while on travel within the United States and overseas, and during periods of heightened threats or federal government alert that would require continuous protection.    
• Serving as a Personal Protection Specialist and assists in the development and planning for the protection of the Secretary of Education and when appropriate, the Deputy Secretary of Education.   
• Assisting in investigations concerning threats to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary. Coordinates official liaison activities with the United States Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Capitol Police and other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, relating to the personal protective security operations of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary.   
• Coordinating with appropriate offices/agencies to ensure that all telecommunication systems are in place to include constant secure telephone services and other electronic communication systems with the Department of Education and the White House.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 150 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 150th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Protective Service Specialist, GS-1801-12, you will be responsible for:

• Incumbent is responsible, during her/his shift for the security of the Secretary, to and from her/his residence and office, while attending events and meetings both official and personal inside and outside her/his office, while on travel within the United States and overseas, and during periods of heightened threats or federal government alert that would require continuous protection.   
• Serving as a Personal Protection Specialist and assists in the development and planning for the protection of the Secretary of Education and when appropriate, the Deputy Secretary of Education.     
• Assisting in investigations concerning threats to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary. Coordinates official liaison activities with the United States Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Capitol Police and other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, relating to the personal protective security operations of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary.   

As a Protective Service Specialist, GS-1801-13, you will be responsible for:

• Incumbent is responsible, during her/his shift for the security of the Secretary, to and from her/his residence and office, while attending events and meetings both official and personal inside and outside her/his office, while on travel within the United States and overseas, and during periods of heightened threats or federal government alert that would require continuous protection.    
• Serving as a Personal Protection Specialist and assists in the development and planning for the protection of the Secretary of Education and when appropriate, the Deputy Secretary of Education.   
• Assisting in investigations concerning threats to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary. Coordinates official liaison activities with the United States Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Capitol Police and other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, relating to the personal protective security operations of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary.   
• Coordinating with appropriate offices/agencies to ensure that all telecommunication systems are in place to include constant secure telephone services and other electronic communication systems with the Department of Education and the White House.

As a Director of Communication and Outreach, AD-0301-00 (Senior Manager), you will be responsible for:

• Driving the overall vision, strategy, and execution of FSA’s communication and outreach plan.
• As a recognized expert, providing leadership in the evaluation, assessment and improvement of programs and management systems by applying a wide range of qualitative and quantitative techniques.
• Providing program oversight and guidance that addresses modern communication practices and management approaches, drawing heavily upon best practices from the private sector and other Federal agencies.
• Planning, developing, directing, and managing the communication and outreach strategy and team to meet FSA strategic goals.
• Recommending the appropriate customer centric solutions to support the policies and directives issued by the Department of Education, Federal Student Aid (FSA), and the Intermediate of Chief Operations Office.

• Plans, organizes, directs and controls the safety and occupational health program covering an extensive geographic area and involving a large variety of regional operations.
• Evaluates the health and safety program’s progress, which includes assessment of current guidelines, procedures, policies, and the training program.
• Plans, organizes and conducts a regional inspection activity.
• Investigates mishaps and fatalities and prepares a chronological narrative of factors contributing to the incident.
• Tests and modifies, as appropriate, various types of protective equipment such as life vests, safety ropes, and safety nets to ensure compliance with applicable safety criteria.

• Provides regional coordination, leadership and execution of needed direction, guidance, and oversight of death and serious injury.
• Liaison between the Forest Service and family members during incidents, casualties and injuries.
• Implements national policy, objectives, and standards for assigned program.
• Participates in the development of technical and policy direction and guidance, training, and oversight.
• Assists with the regional Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) program in support of the Regional Coordinator.

The selectee will serve as a Civil Engineer in The Office of Technical Development and Mission Support, Technical Security Division. Typical work assignments include:

• Developing, coordinating, and providing program- planning documentation, such as monthly updates, briefing books, project displays, and maintaining official files for assigned program area(s). Incumbent promotes the accomplishments and objectives of TSD and the Engineering and Science Research and Development Branch through briefings and demonstrations of branch accomplishments and on-going work
• Recommending the resolution of engineering or scientific issues in order to attain departmental objectives and technology development.
• Negotiates with others with differing or opposing views in order to resolve engineering aspects of controversial decisions regarding highly unstructured and interconnected problems involving both unique technology and programmatic treatments.
• Serving as a Contracting Officer's Representative in managing awarded contracts.
• Evaluating contractor performance and assures compliance with contract requirements throughout the life cycle of the contract/program.