The Assistant Director, Staffing Support and Communications serves as a senior leadership team (SLT) member leading two Central Office (VACO) Loan Guaranty Service (LGY) sub-organizations: 'Staffing and Engagement', and Communications'. The Staffing and Engagement team focuses on managing and improving the visibility and quality of the candidate pipeline, the efficient process flow across the hiring lifecycle, and the reporting and compliance activities incumbent upon a federal Program office.

Duties

Specific duties include but are not limited to the following: Engages across LGY to identify, support, and fulfill the workforce and communication requirements of the program, as pertain to this domain, including resolving systemic issues in the core functions which affect program success. Collaboratively evaluates, refines, and translates strategic priorities and initiatives to ensure optimization of Program resources and maximize program outcomes in the core functional areas. Executes a workforce development and succession plan consistent with LGY executive priorities, represents management in administering an effective Federal labor relations program, and assures LGY's personnel procedures align with, and contribute to, an organization's (long- and short-term) strategic goals and objectives. Maintains and improves all LGY-controllable aspects of the staffing process, which, through oversight and occasional direct intervention, minimizes the time-to-fill and similar metrics pertaining to filling positions across LGY. Utilizes the All-Employee Survey Results and other valid inputs to understand and advocate for workforce changes and improvements of all sorts that improve the employee experience, retention, and resilience, working collaboratively with core teams and others such as LGY training resources. Promotes improved business processes that reduce administrative burdens in the staffing-related functions of all business units, including analyzing, developing, and advocating for changes in procedures and work methods. Directs and advises the Principal Assistant Director on the Human Resources (HR)/personnel management program for the Loan Guaranty Service, performing, overseeing, or liaising on the full range of human resources requirements including in areas pertaining to labor and employee relations, recruiting, promotion, training, equal opportunity employment, disciplinary action, performance evaluation, employee suggestion program, employee engagement, etc. Oversees through a professional team, the strategic initiatives and tactical communication development and delivery which stimulate or facilitate mission-critical activity across the Program, whether with staff, industry partners, or Oversight bodies like Congressional communications as directed by the Executive Director of Loan Guaranty. Leads and advances administration initiatives to track program inputs and ensure contributions to program messaging in multiple formats that impactfully relay action-oriented information to internal and external stakeholders. Develops project approach strategies and plans; collaborates and negotiates requirements with other members of the LGY leadership team. Applies standard project-management tools and plans in support of initiatives or directives. Supervises in a positive, affirmative manner to balance business needs with human, financial, and systems capacities. Over time, develops approaches or methods to improve staff "All Employee Survey" areas. Provides technical and administrative supervision to subordinate units and staff through subordinate supervisors. Establishes performance standards and evaluates the performance of subordinate supervisors, makes determinations on grievances, recommends training, and approves leave of subordinate supervisors. Hears grievances as second level supervisor, reviews recommendations for hiring, promotion, and adverse actions made by subordinate supervisors, and supports and implements established Equal Employment Opportunity policies and programs. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday 6:00AM-6:00PM Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Management & Program Analyst; 41588-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized: Relocation expenses and services (Permanent Change of Station - PCS) are authorized for this recruitment. PCS is the relocation of a household due to government convenience in connection with the transfer between duty stations or facilities. In consideration of the payment of expenses for travel and transportation, the selectee agrees to remain in federal service for twelve (12) months following the date of transfer. Failure to complete all conditions of the obligated service may result in repayment of travel/transportation expenses. Click here for more information. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selectees are required to service a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:02/28/2024. 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. To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). 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 also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50's and/or General Adjustment SF-50's as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. For a GS-15 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-14 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-15 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Defined as possessing an expert knowledge of and skill in applying a wide range of concepts, approaches, practices, regulations, policies, precedents, and analytical, and procedures related to VA guidelines and regulations. High level of knowledge in program operations, policy, leadership, compliance, staffing, and communications, and the relationships between these and the domain areas of Staffing Support and Communications Must have served in professional contributor and leadership roles in at least two of the following core business functions (Human Resources, Staffing, Communications, General Management, or Compliance.) The incumbent also should have extensive knowledge of and passion for the role VA and VBA play in serving Veterans and their families, along with an understanding of how, why, when, and by whom ideas are formulated and actions approved or directed. Volunteer Experience: 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. Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week. Physical Requirements: The work is principally sedentary. Work also may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel to and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site. No special physical effort or ability is required to do the work. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Casey Fahey
• Email: [email protected]