Supervisory Human Resources Specialist - Division Director - PD

Summary

This position is located in the Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Operations, Office of Human Resources, Division of Workforce Relations. The duty location for this position is in Rockville, MD and is not eligible for remote work.

**Applicants please note: Additional selections may be made across the Health Resources and Services Administration through this vacancy announcement.**

This job is open to

Clarification from the agency

This position is only open to Current Career/Career Conditional Employees of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in the Competitive service; and Commissioned Corp Officers. PHS Commissioned Corps (CC) Officers will be referred as CC personnel and not as a candidate for conversion to a permanent federal appointment.

Duties

As the Division Director, you will serve as the senior technical advisor for the Agency on national issues in all program areas (i.e., ethics, benefits, retirement, voluntary leave transfer, labor relations, employee relations, and performance management.

Your major duties and responsibilities include:

Providing technical advice, guidance, and training for Agency executives, managers, and employees on a wide range of complex ethics matters.

Developing and implementing policies to ensure Agency employees are aware of and comply with ethics laws, rules, and regulations.

Developing methods and techniques to assure labor relations and employee relations policies, practices and procedures are effectively communicated.

Overseeing the preparation and issuance of labor notices; conduct Agency negotiations, and drafts settlement agreements/memorandum of understanding.

Providing advice and counsel to managers, employees, former employees, annuitants, beneficiaries, survivors, and eligible family members regarding variances in health benefits and retirement determinations.

Manage the Agency-wide annual performance program, including developing and issuing guidance on various awards programs. NOTE: Do not cut and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

U. S. Citizenship is required.

HRSA Federal applicants must submit an SF-50 to show status and time-in-grade. Must meet Time-in-Grade by the closing date of this announcement.

Males ages 18 through 25 must be registered with the Selective Service.

PHS Commissioned Corps applicants must submit current personnel orders.

A one year supervisory probationary period may be required.

Employment is subject to the successful completion of the pre-appointment process (i.e., background investigation, verification of qualifications and job requirements, completion of onboarding forms, submission of required documents, etc.)

Qualifications

ALL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE 07/05/2024.

This announcement is only open to CURRENT HRSA competitive permanent/career or competitive career conditional employees. As verification of status and time-in-grade at HRSA, applicants must provide the following two SF50s with their applications by the announcement closing date of 07/05/2024.

Appointment/hire /conversion SF50 for your current position with HRSA that reflects the following:

Box 24 showing the number "1" for PERMANENT status (aka career status) OR number "2" CONDITIONAL.

Box 34 showing the number "1" for COMPETITVE. AND

2. Most recent competitive career-ladder promotion OR most recent With-in Range Increase.

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To qualify for this position at the GS-15 level, your resume must clearly demonstrate that you have one full year of the minimum qualifying experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-14 level in the federal service.

MINIMUM QUALIFYING SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, an applicant's one full year of specialized experience must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for successful job performance.

Examples of minimum qualifying specialized experience equal to the GS-14 level include performing the following types of tasks on a regular and recurring basis:

Providing strategic federal employee or labor relations, or federal ethics advisory services on complex organizational issues such as Furlough, Reduction in forces, Vera and VSIP, reconfigurations of mission workload and union representational issues. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; community; student; social). If such experience is on a part-time basis, you must provide the average number of hours worked per week as well as the beginning and ending dates of the experience so it can be fully credited.

Applicants whose resumes clearly demonstrate the required minimum qualifying specialized experience will be evaluated based on the occupational assessment competencies listed below. A COMPETENCY is defined as a measurable pattern of knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors, and other characteristics that an individual needs to perform work roles or occupational functions.

LEADERSHIP - Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishment; coaches and mentors subordinates; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations; models high standards of honesty, integrity, trust, openness, and respect for individuals by applying these values to daily behaviors.

ETHICS KNOWLEDGE - Understands and applies knowledge of, and promotes compliance with, appropriate ethics statues, regulations, policies, and procedures.

EMPLOYEE RELATIONS/LABOR RELATIONS - Understands and demonstrated knowledge of laws, rules, regulations, case law, principles, and practices related to employee conduct, performance, and dispute resolution as well as practices related to negotiating and administering labor agreements.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS - Understands and demonstrated knowledge of HR concepts, principles, and practices related to retirement, insurance, injury compensation, and other employee benefits programs.

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT - Develops and implements strategies that optimize individual performance within the organization.

To preview the occupational assessment questionnaire, please click on the following link:

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

HHS is an equal opportunity employer. Selection for this position will be based solely on merit without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, national origin, political affiliation, disability, sexual orientation, marital or family status or other differences.

Security and Background Requirements: If not previously completed, a background security investigation will be required for all appointees. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication. False representation may be grounds for non-consideration, non-selection and/or appropriate disciplinary action.

E-Verify: HRSA participates in the USCIS Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify). helps employers determine employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their social security numbers.

Direct Deposit: All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.

Creditable Service: A newly appointed or reappointed employee may receive service credit for annual leave for prior work experience directly related to the duties of the position being filled. The use of this service credit is at the discretion of the selecting official and must be finalized prior to selectee's entrance on duty. For more information, please .

Financial Disclosure: This position requires you to file a public or confidential financial disclosure report prior to receiving a final offer letter as well as within 30 days of your appointment. This will require you to report information such as recent sources of income, financial interests you hold, and outside activities you participate in, as well as similar information from a spouse or any dependent children. If you have questions, please contact your HRSA Ethics Advisor at .

Bargaining Unit: Position is not in the Bargaining Unit.

Recruitment Incentives: Recruitment incentives are not authorized.

Student Loan Repayment Incentive: Student loan repayment incentive is not authorized.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

To determine your qualifications and referral status, we may review your resume and supporting documentation and compare it against your responses to the vacancy questionnaire. Ensure you support your self-ratings by the information you provide in your application. We may verify or assess your qualifications at any time. Inflated or unsupported qualifications may affect your rating. Any misrepresentation or material omission of facts may be sufficient cause to end further consideration of your candidacy. Persons listed as having knowledge of your past accomplishments or experience in your application may be contacted for verification purposes at any time. Verification may, but need not, begin prior to receiving an offer.

To be considered well qualified for the purposes of the and the, you must substantively exceed the basic qualifications by scoring at least an 85 on the assessment and meet all eligibility, physical, medical, suitability, and all other requirements.

Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Required Documents

This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please contact either HRSA's Office of Human Resources at or by email: or HRSA's Reasonable Accommodation programs at or by email: . You must contact the Reasonable Accommodations Program prior to the closing date of this announcement to receive assistance. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Hours of operation: Monday through Friday 7:30AM to 4:00PM EST (except Federal holidays).

Submission of a resume alone is not a complete application. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete online Application Package that includes:

1. A current Resume - For resume writing guidance, please visit or view their Your resume must thoroughly describe how your skills and experiences align to the criteria defined in the "Qualifications" section of this announcement and it must support your responses to the assessment questionnaire. We cannot assume you have performed the necessary experience required for this position regardless of your employment history or academic career. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the r.

If you choose to use your own resume, curriculum vitae, or any other written form you choose, then you must ensure it contains all of the required information and you organize it so we can associate the following information for each experience/position:

Job title

Name of employer

Beginning and ending dates of employment (month/day/year format)

Hours worked per week. We will assume full-time unless otherwise stated. We will prorate part-time employment in crediting experience.

Detailed description of job duties, accomplishments, related skills, and responsibilities to include any supervisory/managerial responsibilities and number of staff supervised (if applicable)

Your resume must show the series and grade or equivalent for all federal positions you have held (if a federal position).

Performance ratings and any monetary or non-monetary awards. (Optional)

You must also ensure that the duties performed are clearly matched to each period of employment.

Do not include a photograph or video of yourself, or any sensitive information (age, date of birth, marital status, protected health information, religious affiliation, social security number, etc.) on your resume or cover letter. We will not access web pages linked on your resume or cover letter to determine your qualifications.

2. complete Assessment Questionnaire

3. Other supporting documents to be submitted with application:

SF-50: Federal applicants must submit an SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) that shows status and time-in-grade, and its full performance level. If you are an HHS employee you may obtain a copy of your SF-50 from eOPF.

PHS Commissioned Corps Officer must submit a copy of latest personnel order in lieu of SF-50.

College transcripts (if the position has a positive education requirement, or you are qualifying on the basis of education). For Résumé and Application Tips visit the .

The complete Application Package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 07/05/2024.