EEOC - Helpdesk Manager

cFocus Software seeks a Helpdesk Manager to join our program supporting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This position is onsite in Washington, DC. This position requires a Public Trust or the ability to obtain a public trust clearance.

• Demonstrated experience managing an enterprise helpdesk or IT service desk supporting geographically dispersed users, multiple technical functions, and defined service levels.
• Demonstrated knowledge of ITIL-aligned service management, including incident, request, problem, change, escalation, knowledge, and continual-improvement practices.
• Experience managing staffing, schedules, workload, performance, training, and service coverage in a customer-facing technical support environment.
• Experience administering or overseeing an IT service-management/ticketing platform such as Zendesk and producing accurate operational, SLA, KPI, trend, and customer-service reports.
• Ability to interpret contractual service requirements, AQLs, performance measures, ticket-priority thresholds, and deliverable deadlines and translate them into operational controls.
• Experience developing and maintaining management, staffing, transition, quality-control, escalation, contingency, SOP, knowledge-management, and performance-reporting artifacts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify service risks, recurring defects, root causes, performance trends, and corrective actions.
• Strong leadership, customer-service, written communication, briefing, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Working knowledge of enterprise end-user computing, Microsoft environments, systems administration, information security, AV/VTC services, asset management, and technical support operations.
• Professional command of the English language and the ability to produce complete, concise, accurate, and timely documentation and reports.
• Ability to support an on-site Federal operating environment, approved emergency or weekend coverage, and occasional local or domestic travel when required.
• Must currently possess or be able to favorably complete the required five-year employment background investigation for a Public Trust position, normally initiated through Standard Form 85P, and meet applicable OPM suitability standards.

• Direct daily Enterprise Helpdesk operations and coordinate systems administration, business analysis, AV/VTC, event-support, and related service activities across EEOC Headquarters and field offices.
• Plan, assign, and monitor staffing and workload to maintain qualified coverage throughout the required operating window and meet work-order requirements.
• Lead ITIL-aligned incident, request, problem, change, knowledge, escalation, and continual-improvement processes.
• Monitor Zendesk or other approved IT service-management tools for ticket volume, queue length, priority, aging, updates, escalations, resolution, and customer-impact trends.
• Review ticket documentation and resolution quality; provide required Helpdesk Manager approvals; and ensure tickets are closed in accordance with EEOC procedures.
• Ensure urgent, critical, and complex incidents are assigned, communicated, escalated, and resolved within applicable service thresholds, including Government notification requirements.
• Establish and maintain escalation procedures that identify, prevent, correct, and reduce recurrence of defective or delayed services.
• Track performance against PWS service levels, acceptable quality levels, key performance indicators, and customer-satisfaction standards; initiate corrective and preventive actions when results fall below target.
• Develop, configure, validate, and maintain reproducible service metrics and reports using Zendesk and other approved reporting sources.
• Prepare and submit daily operational updates, weekly Helpdesk reports, monthly performance reports, customer meeting minutes, and ad hoc status reports with complete and accurate data.
• Analyze ticket volumes, service categories, recurring issues, major problem areas, developing trends, support-group handoffs, and new metrics that may improve OCIO service delivery.
• Develop and maintain the Program…