The VA San Diego Healthcare System is hiring a Supervisory Equal Employment Manager to further the goals of EEO by taking positive steps to assure the accomplishment of affirmative action objectives and by adhering to nondiscriminatory employment practices regarding race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.

Duties

As the Supervisory Equal Employment Manager you will be responsible to the Medical Center Director for policy and program development, administration, evaluation, and advisory functions. This position requires expert knowledge of federal EEO regulations and principles, compliance, and enforcement skills, administrative, management and consulting skills, and knowledge of federal personnel administration. Duties include, but are not limited to: Explaining performance expectations to employees and providing regular feedback on strengths and weaknesses. Hearing and resolving employee complaints and referring serious unresolved complaints to higher level management. Initiating actions to correct performance or conduct problems. Identifying employee developmental needs and providing or arranging for training (formal and on-the-job) to maintain and improve job performance. Analyzing and recommending solutions to problems that adversely affect EEO and Affirmative Employment. Advising management on specific actions in support of affirmative action, strategies for handling discrimination and/or harassment complaints. Providing managers and employees with information about the organization's EEO policies, procedures, and guidelines. Providing agency management with interpretations of policy and procedures when the issues involved are new, highly controversial, precedent setting and/or involving more than one area of personnel policy. Providing management with thorough and conclusive advice on the legal precedents and requirements of the equal employment opportunity program for the agency. Providing guidance in discrimination complaints. Developing and/or monitoring proposals or plans related to the implementation of personnel programs or projects. Developing proposals/plans for a broad equal employment opportunity program. Monitoring progress and acts to resolve problems which will delay the project or to obtain necessary support for changes. Developing an Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, which is any procedure or combination of procedures voluntarily used to resolve issues in controversy without the need to resort to litigation. As the facility's mediator will attempt through reviews and discussions with both parties to negotiate a settlement. Serving as a technical expert for processing complaints which are not covered by the Office of Resolution Management. Ensuring the activities of the Special Emphasis Program managers and their respective subcommittees are carried out in accordance with department and local policy. Reviewing new or proposed EEO policies, procedures and guidelines and making recommendations to management on the need for changes in existing policies. Planning and implementing actions to correct deficiencies identified by reviews. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm. Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Equal Employment Manager/PD09572O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/12/2024. 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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: experience that provided a mastery of concepts, principles, and methods of Federal Equal Employment Opportunity to develop broad guidelines or regulations; conducting projects to resolve complex systematic problems for an agency; and interpreting and developing guidelines and regulations that are questioned, challenged, or require negotiating to secure acceptance. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analysis and Problem SolvingCommunicationDecision SupportLead or SuperviseTechnical Competence 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 involves sitting at a desk, conferences, meetings, etc., and occasional visits to activity work sites. No special physical exertion is required. 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/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address San Diego VA Medical Center 3350 La Jolla Village Drive San Diego, CA 92161 US
• Name: Roberto Mejia
• Email: [email protected]