Director Data Sharing and Protection

About the role

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has a distinguished history dating back to the founding of our nation. As the steward of U.S. economic and financial systems, Treasury is a major and influential leader in today's global economy.

We have over 100,000 employees across the country and around the world. Come Join the Department of the Treasury and Invest in Tomorrow.

What you will do

• We strongly encourage applicants to read the entire announcement before submitting their applications.
• As the Director, Data Sharing & Protection you will provide executive oversight responsible for ensuring IRS implements sound policies designed to protect taxpayer and employee privacy.
• The executive is the IRS expert on privacy protection and consolidates diverse inter-functional activities relating to that protection.
• The executive is responsible for establishing IRS strategic direction regarding privacy policy and promotes consistent implementation of privacy policies and legal requirements throughout the IRS.
• The executive is also responsible for overseeing the implementation of policies and procedures to manage and safeguard IRS information, partnering with Federal, state, and local governmental agencies to safely and responsibly share data to promote tax administration.
• The Director Data Sharing and Protection performs the following duties and responsibilities: Serves as the principal advisor to senior IRS leadership on privacy, data protection, safeguarding, and information-sharing matters and establishes enterprise-wide strategies, policies, governance frameworks, and performance measures supporting IRS mission objectives.
• Establishes and directs Servicewide privacy, data protection, and information governance strategies to ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory, and policy requirements while supporting modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
• Establishes enterprise strategy and governance for data sharing, safeguarding, and protection of Federal Tax Information, ensuring responsible information exchange among authorized governmental partners and compliance with applicable legal requirements.
• Examines legislative, regulatory, and policy developments affecting privacy, disclosure, safeguarding, and information protection; formulates IRS positions; and advises senior leadership on emerging risks, opportunities, and strategic implications.
• Directs enterprise engagement with Federal, state, local, tribal, and private-sector partners to advance governmental liaison, data-sharing, safeguarding, and information protection objectives.
• Collaborates with IRS Information Technology to support critical infrastructure improvements and enhance the protection of these systems from unauthorized access and exploitation.
• Ensures data exchange partners meet these same critical standards.
• Directs enterprise privacy risk management and incident response programs, including identification of systemic vulnerabilities, oversight of privacy controls, implementation of corrective actions, and executive leadership during significant privacy and data protection incidents.
• Provides executive leadership for integrating privacy, safeguarding, and information protection requirements into emerging technologies, digital services, enterprise systems, artificial intelligence initiatives, and modernization programs.
• Directs the Privacy and Civil Liberties Impact Assessment program and ensures privacy-by-design principles are incorporated into IRS business processes, systems, applications, and operational activities.
• Provides executive direction for Servicewide privacy awareness, workforce capability, and executive education programs to strengthen organizational accountability for protecting sensitive information.
• Directs the IRS Safeguards Program and related compliance activities to ensure external partners appropriately protect Federal Tax Information and effectively mitigate risks associated with unauthorized disclosure, misuse, or loss of sensitive information.
• Represents the IRS before Treasury, Congress, OMB, GAO, TIGTA, intergovernmental organizations, professional associations, and other external stakeholders on matters involving privacy, safeguarding, data sharing, and information protection.
• Provides executive leadership to a complex organization, builds coalitions, chairs governance bodies, and drives organizational performance to achieve strategic priorities and mission outcomes.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Be geographically mobile to accomplish the Service's mission.
• Complete a one-year SES probationary period, if not previously completed.
• Certify you have registered with the Selective Service System if you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, or certify you are exempt from having to do so.
• Complete a OF-306, Declaration for Federal Employment, to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency.
• Have your salary sent to a financial institution of your choice by Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer.
• Provide information to successfully complete a background investigation.
• Applicants must have a successfully adjudicated FBI criminal history record check (fingerprint check) and a NACI or equivalent.
• Go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification as listed on Form I-9 (***); of which one must be a valid state or federal government-issued picture identification.
• Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S. Complete verification of identity and employment eligibility as required by Federal law for all persons hired to work in the United States.
• The IRS participates in e-Verify (Employment Verification) and may provide information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and/or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to secure a work authorization.
• You will receive written instructions and contact information for SSA and DHS if this information cannot be confirmed.
• File a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (sf278) within 30 days of appointment and annually.
• Disclose Political Appointments.
• Veterans' preference is not applicable to the Senior Executive Service.
• Meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

There is no education requirement for this position.

How you will be evaluated

Your resume will be reviewed to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the basic qualification requirements, your application will be referred to and evaluated by an executive panel. Highly Qualified applicants may undergo one or more interviews and/or be asked to provide a list of references or additional documents to confirm eligibility.

The Executive Resources Board (ERB) will review results of the evaluation and make a written recommendation on the final selection(s) to the appointing authority.

Unless you have already been certified by the OPM Qualifications Review Board (QRB) in the past or received certification by an OPM approved Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program, your qualifications must be certified by an OPM QRB before appointment may occur.

If the selected candidate does not have Qualifications Review Board (QRB) certification by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the individual will be required to undergo an ECQ based structured interview with OPM to determine that you meet the leadership competencies required to serve as a member of the SES.

Certification by the Office of Personnel Management's Qualifications Review Board is required to be appointed to this position.

Documents you must provide

• ***********************ALL DOCUMENTS MUST BE UPLOADED IN PDF FORMAT************************* A complete application includes 1.
• Vacancy Questionnaire Responses and 3.
• Submission of any required documents.
• Please note that if you do not provide all required information, as specified in this announcement, you may not be considered for this position (or may not receive the special consideration for which you may be eligible).
• RESUME: The new SES hiring process requires applicants to submit a two (2)-page resume which includes information regarding your professional experience and accomplishments that demonstrate you meet the ECQs and required MTQs.
• If you submit more than two pages, the remainder of the pages will not be reviewed nor considered.
• Requirements (Failure to provide the following information, may result in not being considered): Limited to two (2) pages.
• Recommend a standard 8.5x11-inch document size, a sans-serif font such as Arial or Calibri with a font size no smaller than 10-point, page margins of 0.5 inches.
• Applicants that attempt to circumvent the 2-page limit page limit, for example by materially reducing readability, will be deemed ineligible.
• Includes your name and contact information.
• Include relevant work experience - Employer Name, Job Title, Employment dates (start to end date or present), number of hours worked per week, and a brief description of duties that clearly demonstrate your qualifications.
• To receive full credit for work experience, you must include specific MM/DD/YYYY start and end dates for every position.
• Pay plan, series, and grade (e.g., GS-0301-09) for all federal service jobs.
• Your resume MUST contain specific information that can be used to make a qualification determination, including employment beginning and ending dates for each position, whether employment is Full-time or Part-time, or average number of hours worked per week, and position titles.
• If the position is/was in the Federal government, you will need to provide the position series and grade level.
• The resume should show relevant experience and education, as well as support the required specialized experience.
• Don't Include on Resume: Photographs, classified or sensitive information, SSN, encrypted/digitally signed documents, or other inappropriate content.
• Resumes containing prohibited information will be deemed ineligible.
• Embedded links as they will not be opened or considered when determining qualifications.
• Personal information such as age, sex, religion, race, or disability.
• Specialized experience copied from the announcement or position description, as this is not a demonstration of your experience.
• NOTE: If you update and resubmit your application, only the most recent resume received will be considered to determine qualifications.
• VACANCY QUESTION/ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES: Responses are automatically submitted through USA Jobs when you apply to this vacancy.
• ADDITIONAL REQUIRED DOCUMENTS: Applicants are required to submit the following supporting documentation if applicable: CURRENT OR FORMER SES MEMBERS: Must provide your SES appointment SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action), and a SF-50 showing current career SES status or career SES reinstatement eligibility.
• SES CANDIDATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (SESCDP) GRADUATES: Verification of successful completion of an OPM approved SESCDP and OPM SES QRB certification.
• CURRENT FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES: Must provide a copy of a SF-50 reflecting you are a current Federal Civil Service employee.
• You may be asked to provide additional documentation to support your eligibility and the information provided in your application package.
• For example, we may request transcripts, SF-50s, SES Candidate Development Program certificate, etc. Therefore, we encourage you to have these documents prepared and ready when requested by the agency.
• If you fail to provide the required documents within the stated time period, we may withdraw a job offer and/or remove you from further consideration.
• Applicants who fail to submit ALL required documents WILL NOT receive consideration for this position.
• Application will result in an "Incomplete/Ineligible" rating.
• REMINDER: Before uploading your required PDF documents, please ensure the resume DOES NOT EXCEED the noted page limits.
• You must submit all documentation by 11:59 pm EST on the closing date of this announcement to be eligible.
• All applicants are required to submit a resume either by creating one in USAJOBS or uploading one of their own choosing.
• (Cover letters are optional) We suggest you preview the online questions, as you may need to customize your resume to ensure it supports your responses to the questions and TQs.

What to expect next

Once your application package and online questionnaire are received you will receive an acknowledgement email. You are responsible for checking status updates and notifications in USAJOBS. Hard copy notifications will not be sent to you.

You may check the status of your application for this position at any time by logging onto the USAJOBS "My Account" tab and clicking on "Application Status." For a more detailed update of your application status, you may click on "more information." Please notify us if your contact information changes after the closing date of the announcement.

If your email mailbox is full or blocked (SPAM) you may not receive important communication that could affect your consideration for this position. The IRS is committed to affording reasonable accommodation in accordance with law and regulation.

Some examples of reasonable accommodation include providing sign-language interpreters for persons who are Deaf or adaptive technology like screen-reader software for individuals who are blind or low vision.

If you're a person with a disability and will require a reasonable accommodation, it is imperative you inform the IRS immediately of the need for accommodation to afford as much time as possible to make necessary arrangements.

Requesting a reasonable accommodation will not affect this job offer, however, failure to inform the IRS of such a need may impact your ability to effectively participate in new-employee orientation and/or to begin performing your job duties. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact the Human Resource Specialist listed at the bottom of job offer letter immediately.

In addition, please review Reasonable Accommodations, complete Form 13661 Reasonable Accommodation Request, and return it to the Reasonable Accommodation's email box at *** or send it by fax to ***. Our comprehensive benefits are very generous. Our benefits package includes: Competitive salaries, bonuses and incentive awards.

11 paid holidays, 13 days of sick leave, and 26 days of vacation leave each year. Access to insurance programs that may be continued after you retire. A wide choice of health insurance plans, coverage for pre-existing conditions, and no waiting periods.

We pay a substantial amount (up to 75%) of health insurance premiums. A retirement program which includes employer-matching contributions. Learn more about Federal benefits programs at : Pay and Benefits.

Additional information

Veterans' preference is not applicable to the Senior Executive Service. Applications MUST be submitted through USAJobs. Submit resume and all other required documents online by 11:59 PM EST of the closing date.

If you are selected for a position, you are responsible for reporting to your designated POD (location) on the negotiated start date or as directed by management. Salary for Senior Executive Service jobs vary depending on qualifications. Undergo a review of prior performance/conduct and an income tax verification.

Refer to "Get Your Tax Record" at *** to check the status of your account, balance owed, payment history, make a payment, or review answers to tax questions. If you are not in compliance, you will be determined unsuitable for employment with IRS.

The employment of any candidate selected for this position, including a current employee or a new hire, selected for this position may be conditional upon classification and/or audit of federal tax returns.

This position requires that the successful candidate undergo personnel vetting, which includes a background investigation and enrollment upon onboarding into "Continuous Vetting." Enrollment in Continuous Vetting will result in automated record checks being conducted throughout one's employment with Treasury.

For more information regarding your rights refer to Noncriminal Justice Applicant's Privacy Rights - FBI, FD-258 Privacy Act Statement - FBI, and SEAD-3-Reporting-U.pdf (dni.gov).