Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a EQUAL EMPLOYMENT MANAGER. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment. Duty Location: Sacramento, California

Duties

Serves as an Equal Employment Manager. The incumbent serves as the principal equal opportunity and civil rights advisor to the Regional Director and the Regional Management Team. Develops, coordinates, implements, administers, and evaluates the Region's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Program. Analyzes current employment practices, policies, and techniques to identify diversity barriers/issues, and recommends changes and innovative approaches to enhance the Region's opportunity to achieve identified workforce goals. Develops policies and standards and ensures the Region's program is in line with all applicable laws, executive orders, and policies. Plans and budgets activities and establishes program direction, goals, and objectives. Administers the EEO complaint process, including EEO counseling. Advises managers and aggrieved persons of employee rights and responsibilities, procedural options, and time frames in dealing with conflict situations. Addresses Region-wide equal opportunity issues and problems through the development and implementation of a comprehensive evaluation process. Monitors statistical reports and gathers data to support the evaluation of program accomplishments and to identify deficiencies. Collects and analyzes relevant work force statistics such as promotion trend data, personnel actions, training incidents, complaints data, etc., and develops strategies to improve recruitment efforts, organizational culture, office policies, etc., to promote a more effective equal opportunity program for the organization (Area Office, field office, division, etc.). Represents the Regional Director in key meetings with Reclamation, Departmental and/or EEOC officials on matters concerning the Regional equal opportunity program. Serves as the Regional Liaison to support Department activities in reviewing, monitoring, and reporting on compliance with provisions of Title VI or the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Plans, schedules, assigns, sets, and adjusts short-term priorities for work activities within established resources and program requirements. Allocates work assignments based on priorities.

Requirements

Qualifications

In order to be rated as qualified for this position, the HR Office must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - this information must be clearly supported in the resume. To qualify at the GS-12, you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-11 level in federal service having demonstrated experience but not limited to: Development, administering, evaluating, or advising on an equal employment opportunity program; Processing complaints of discrimination; Participating in on-site EEO evaluations; Conducting briefings on EEO related topics; Identifying and developing recommendations to improve equal employments problem areas; Conducting investigations of EEO discrimination complaints, grievances, or other unresolved dispute cases 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; 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. Time-In-Grade: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower-grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Applicants eligible under the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) are not required to meet time-in-grade restrictions in order to be considered. You must meet all Eligibility and Qualification requirements, including time-in-grade restrictions and any selective placement factors if applicable, by 09/13/2023.

Education

This position does not allow substituting education for experience.

Contacts

• Address Office of Regional Director Bureau of Reclamation 2800 Cottage Way Sacramento, CA 95825 US
• Name: BOR CA Great Basin Human Resources Office
• Phone: 916-978-5476
• Email: [email protected]