This position is assigned to the Forest Service, Human Resources Management staff, and serves as a Branch Chief. This position provides program leadership, direction, policy development, oversight, and advisory services in the assigned Human Resources program area. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Pamela Spearow at [email protected].

Duties

Analyze and implement corporate decisions relative to changes in human resources policies as well as new legal guidance, laws, and regulations in the development of human resources policies and programs in support of the Agency. Embrace new initiatives and is proactive in finding innovative, cost effective ways and best practices that can be implemented to enhance work processes. Ensure that supervised staff are providing managers, and employees with accurate information and interpretations of agency's procedures, practices, policies, and guidelines. Create and implement broad guidelines and regulations to resolve complex, novel, and systemic problems that impact employment and other policies or practices for a large service area. Provide advisory services to program managers on significant policy issues, formulating projects, assessing program effectiveness, or researching or analyzing a variety of unusual conditions, problems, or questions.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Subject to one-year supervisory probationary period (unless prior service is creditable). New USDA supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required new supervisory training program before the end of their probationary period.
• The employee is responsible for ensuring their telework worksite provides an adequate work environment with regards to connectivity and technology, and for providing internet service and other general utility costs at their own expense.
• Adequate connectivity includes having reliable telephone and internet service, including meeting any agency internet provider requirements.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. 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. Specialized Experience Requirement: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level. Specialized experience is defined as four or more of the following: Planning, developing, executing, supervising, and evaluating a human resources program; and/or Providing leadership and direction, policy development, oversight, or strategic planning for a human resources program; and/or Providing authoritative management advisory services related to a broad range of human resources practices, including researching and interpreting laws/regulations, analyzing and evaluating issues; and/or Developing solutions to unique or unusually complex problems regarding human resources policy; and/or Establishing and communicating guidelines and performance requirements to employees while conducting formal performance reviews and identifying training and development needs. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To receive consideration for this position, you must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT. Albuquerque, NM 87109 US
• Name: HRM Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-372-7248 X2
• Email: [email protected]