This position is located in the Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Operations, Office of Human Resources, Division of Workforce Relations. The duty location for this position is in Rockville, MD and is not eligible for remote work. **Applicants please note: Additional selections may be made across the Department of Health and Human Services through this vacancy announcement.**

Duties

As the Division Director, you will serve as the senior technical advisor for the Agency on national issues in all program areas (i.e., ethics, benefits, retirement, voluntary leave transfer, labor relations, employee relations, and performance management.) Your major duties and responsibilities include: Providing technical advice, guidance, and training for Agency executives, managers, and employees on a wide range of complex ethics matters. Developing and implementing policies to ensure Agency employees are aware of and comply with ethics laws, rules, and regulations. Developing methods and techniques to assure labor relations and employee relations policies, practices and procedures are effectively communicated. Overseeing the preparation and issuance of labor notices; conduct Agency negotiations, and drafts settlement agreements/memorandum of understanding. Providing advice and counsel to managers, employees, former employees, annuitants, beneficiaries, survivors, and eligible family members regarding variances in health benefits and retirement determinations. Manage the Agency-wide annual performance program, including developing and issuing guidance on various awards programs. NOTE: Do not cut and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Requirements

• U. S. Citizenship is required.
• All qualifications and time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. Federal applicants must submit an SF-50 to show status and time-in-grade.
• Males ages 18 through 25 must be registered with the Selective Service.
• PHS Commissioned Corps applicants must submit current personnel orders.
• A one year supervisory probationary period may be required.
• Employment is subject to the successful completion of the pre-appointment process (i.e., background investigation, verification of qualifications and job requirements, completion of onboarding forms, submission of required documents, etc.)

Qualifications

THESE QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE: 04/23/2024 Do not cut and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. To qualify for this position at the GS-15 level, your resume must clearly demonstrate that you have one full year of the minimum qualifying experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-14 level in the federal service. MINIMUM QUALIFYING SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, an applicant's one full year of specialized experience must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for successful job performance. Examples of minimum qualifying specialized experience equal to the GS-14 level include performing the following types of tasks on a regular and recurring basis: Providing strategic federal employee and labor relations, and federal ethics advisory services on complex organizational issues such as Furlough, Reduction in forces, Vera and VSIP, reconfigurations of mission workload and union representational issues. 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; community; student; social). If such experience is on a part-time basis, you must provide the average number of hours worked per week as well as the beginning and ending dates of the experience so it can be fully credited. Applicants whose resumes clearly demonstrate the required minimum qualifying specialized experience will be evaluated based on the occupational assessment competencies listed below. A COMPETENCY is defined as a measurable pattern of knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors, and other characteristics that an individual needs to perform work roles or occupational functions. LEADERSHIP - Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishment; coaches and mentors subordinates; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations; models high standards of honesty, integrity, trust, openness, and respect for individuals by applying these values to daily behaviors. ETHICS KNOWLEDGE - Understands and applies knowledge of, and promotes compliance with, appropriate ethics statues, regulations, policies, and procedures. EMPLOYEE RELATIONS/LABOR RELATIONS - Understands and demonstrated knowledge of laws, rules, regulations, case law, principles, and practices related to employee conduct, performance, and dispute resolution as well as practices related to negotiating and administering labor agreements. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS - Understands and demonstrated knowledge of HR concepts, principles, and practices related to retirement, insurance, injury compensation, and other employee benefits programs. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT - Develops and implements strategies that optimize individual performance within the organization. TO PREVIEW THE OCCUPATIONAL ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE, please click on the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12364877 Current status candidates must meet Time-in-Grade (TIG) by the closing date of this announcement. To allow us to verify that you meet TIG requirements, provide any of the following SF-50s: Please Note: Current year pay adjustments are not acceptable for verifying TIG (ex. 2024 general increases cannot be used to verify TIG). Competitive or Career-ladder promotion to your highest grade (this does not include 120 day temporary promotions) Regular Within Range Increase (WRI) or With In Grade (WGI) increase at your highest grade (this does not include quality step increases (QSIs). Competitive career/career-conditional appointment to your highest grade. SF-50 at your highest grade held, that is at least one year older than the announcement closing date of 04/23/2024. Not sure which SF-50 to submit? Check out our video... Go here to watch the video on the SF50s to submit in your application package.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Health Resources and Services Administration 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857 US
• Name: AskHR HRSA Helpdesk
• Phone: (301) 443-3780
• Email: [email protected]