The employee is an organizational psychologist, who is recognized as an expert in the development, implementation, application, and evaluation of systems in the areas of talent acquisition, strategic human resources management, workplace assessment, and organizational development.

Duties

Keep abreast on new assessment tools that can be used within the department. Provide current and emerging assessment options and models. Identifies steps and variables to consider when developing as assessment strategy. Develops and validates effective competency models and competency-based assessments for recruitment, selection and promotion and career development. Utilize assessment tools to gather information about applicants/employees for employment or career-related qualifications and interests. Utilize assessment to measure aptitudes, interests, abilities, and achievements levels as revealed by objective test to evaluate candidates. Reviews the technical adequacy of evaluation procedures, such as structure interview, assessment techniques, training, and leadership development practices and recommends enhancements.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Selectees are subject to a background/suitability investigation
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A probationary period may be required for employees

Qualifications

Specialized Experience: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. 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. The Office of Personnel Management's group coverage qualification standards, associated individual occupational requirements (IOR), and individual qualification standards covering white collar occupations in the Federal competitive service can be found here. Basic Requirements for this position Individual Occupational Requirement: A. Education Bachelor's Degree: major or equivalent in psychology. Professional and Scientific Positions Basic Requirement: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in psychology or specific course requirements in psychology. AND To qualify for GS-14, applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-13) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as work that involves: (1) Designing organizational competency assessments, developing plans, strategies, indices, frameworks and analytical toolkits to enhance organizational objectives;(2)Developing human capital management plans, tools and strategies; (3)Constructing and evaluating customized assessment tools, workforce indicators and/or applicable core metrics;(4)Developing, managing, coordinating, monitoring, evaluating projects;(5)Expressing information to multiple audiences through clear, oral and written communication (reports, guides, presentations, briefings, white papers, toolkits, trainings); (6)Applying personnel psychology to the design, methodology and analysis of studies and the interpretation of results.

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for federal employment. You can verify your education here. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.

Contacts

• Address DAS Human Resources Management 810 Vermont Ave Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Joyann Smith-Ward
• Phone: (313) 4713936 X2351
• Email: [email protected]