Equal Employment Specialist
What you'd do
The VA Southern Nevada Health Care System is currently recruiting for a full time Equal Employment Specialist (EEO) Specialist position with the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Office. Responsible for the planning, development, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of the affirmative action and equal employment opportunity programs at the medical center. This job will close when we have received 50 applications, which may be sooner than the closing date
Major duties
Major duties include, but not limited to the following: Serves as consultant to employee and management officials at the facility level relevant to EEO and ADR including the development of affirmative employment plans, identification of initiatives to eliminate barriers, strategizing for resolution of discrimination complaints and other workplace disputes. Assists in coordinating and conducting EEO Training for employees, managers, and supervisors to include but not limited to the Prevention of Sexual Harassment, No Fear-Act, Anti-Harassment, and Reasonable Accommodation overview. Serves as the Alternate Local Reasonable Accommodation Coordinator and assists supervisors and management officials at all levels with processing requests for reasonable accommodation, interpreting regulations and statutes; advises employees and applicants for employment on their rights and responsibilities regarding reasonable accommodation; reviews existing policies and procedures; recommends appropriate changes in policy and procedures; and assists with securing funding for reasonable accommodations. Develops data into reports/recommendations for management on performance improvement for the facility EEO Program. Assists all levels of staff at the Office of Resolution Management (ORM), and Administrative Judges with investigations, hearings and provides assistance to ORM field office personnel (EEO Counselors, Investigators, and Intake Specialists) during both the counseling and investigative stages. Receive and review Civil Rights Complaints; issuing notices of receipt; conducting acceptability determinations; conducting investigations; rendering compliance to Final Agency Decisions; maintain all case files; and developing reports for submission to VISN Lead EEO Manager, VHA Central Office EEO staff and the Office of Resolution Management. Provides technical assistance, consultation; and guidance to national, state and/or local agencies and organizations regarding the development, extension and improvement of educational programs, systems and services for minority Veterans and develops a network relationship with state and private Veteran organizations that will. broaden the scope of outreach. Analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of programs and operations within the Minority Veterans Program. Maintains an extensive and comprehensive information system as a centralized source of data relating to minority Veterans to identity opportunities for improvement and maintains a comprehensive control system of recurring and non-recurring reports that ensures timely submission to executive leadership. Perform other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Virtual/Remote Position: This is not a virtual or remote position Position Description PD #: 044890 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this job announcement. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS- 9. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-11 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Ability to plan, develop, implement, evaluate and monitor programs, complete cycle of fact-finding, problem definition and identification, determining cause and effect relationships, making conclusions and recommending a decision or proposing action, solve complex problems, attention to detail. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience as described above to meet total experience requirements. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical Reasoning, Attention to Detail, Compliance, Customer Service, Flexibility, Influencing/Negotiating, Integrity/Honesty, Interpersonal Skills, Learning, Oral Communication, Reading Comprehension, Self-Management, Stress Tolerance, Teamwork, and Written Communication 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; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The regular and recurring work of the position is sitting, bending, carrying light items, attending meetings and conferences, etc., and the occasional attendance at career fairs and veteran related events. Occasional use of automobile and public conveyances may be required. No special physical exertion is required. The work is mostly sedentary, requiring ambulation, bending, sitting, and carrying light items. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.
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