The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is recruiting for Program Specialist. This position serves as the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer (DEI), for VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System (VANEOHS). The DEI Officer is a member of a diverse, multi-professional team who works independently and has extensive experience with program and project analysis and management.

Duties

The Program Specialist (DEI Officer) duties include, but are not limited to: Develops local policy, methodologies, and procedures to accomplish mission requirements and objectives. Participates in short- and long-range planning with executive management to fully implement and execute the VANEOHS mission. Facilitates outstanding, responsive public service as the Diversity and Inclusion Officer through principled leadership, shared accountability and educating stakeholders. Through strategic community collaborations promotes partnerships, customer service innovations, cooperation, and the image of VANEOHS to increase the visibility of the facility as a world class employer. Engages managers and staff to build a welcoming and inclusive culture at the Medical Center. Responsible for developing guidelines, criteria, and standards for the conduct of all facets of VANEOHS DEI initiatives and policies. Uses initiative and judgment in developing, administering, and managing innovative human capital resources and activities tailored to meet the needs of management in accomplishing their mission through the fair, efficient and economical use of resources. Interfaces with the VA Office of DEI, VAMCs, VISNs, VHA Program Offices and a variety of officials/audiences located throughout federal, state, local governments, and private industry on such matters as DEI, job placement and/or opportunities, training, and development, etc. Leads efforts to improve awareness of a variety of cultural, generational, ethnic, and other differences, related to issues of employee engagement, equal opportunity, conflict resolution and other workforce issues, and provides leadership to meet the increasing related workforce management challenges. Provides in-depth analysis, extracts, summarizes, identifies, interprets, and evaluates significant trends and issues. Forecasts and estimates program requirements and prepares reports, justifications, charts, graphs, statistical and narrative data for briefings and presentations to management officials. Delivers briefings and presentations to a variety of audiences, to include senior leadership as well as national leadership while participating in national workgroups. May be assigned independently, or as a team member, to conduct onsite reviews or make special visits to VANEOHS services/departments to resolve problems and provide staff assistance on matters related to the VAs DEI Management Strategy. Other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Program Specialist (DEI Officer)/PD92168-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the following requirements within 15 calendar days of the closing date listed on the announcement: 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. Applicants must be eligible under the VA Interchange Agreement, having served continuously for at least one year in the other merit system under this interchange agreement. For more information regarding the VA Interchange Agreement please visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-authorities/competitive-hiring/. All Title 38 Veterans Canteen Service (VCS) employees must have served in their Excepted Service position for at least 90 days in order to be eligible for a position within the Competitive Service. Applicants who were previously selected under a Competitive Delegating Examining Office (DEO) announcement must have served in their position for at least 90 days prior to being eligible for other positions within the Competitive Service. In addition to the qualification above you must meet the following: 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: Conceptualizes diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives to foster and cultivate workplace diversity; engages managers and staff to build a welcoming and inclusive culture at the Medical Centers; develops innovative strategies and recommendations for initiating and establishing goals, timetables, and procedures for expediting DE&I or related projects; works to improve population experience both from an employee and Veteran perspective; supports the DEI service in identifying and implementing population specific hiring strategies; contributes to the design of training initiatives on cultural competencies, gender differences, disabilities, and other topics designed to increase awareness of equity and inclusion; conveys report findings and recommendations in meetings and communication with other leaders and program officials. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Creative Thinking Influencing/Negotiating Sociology and Anthropology External Awareness Organizational Awareness Communications Change Management Leveraging Diversity Political Savvy Forward Thinking Organizational Stewardship 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 work is sedentary and does not require any special physical effort. Some work may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site. The position might have to carry light items such as papers, books, and portable computer requirement or driving a motor vehicle relative to attendance at meetings. The work often requires long hours to meet project deadlines and to devise corrective action and solutions to unexpected technical and/or management crises resulting in sometimes highly stressful work situations. 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.

Note: 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: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. 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. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System 10701 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106 US
• Name: Ron Smith
• Phone: 216-217-4583
• Email: [email protected]