The Supervisor Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist position oversees the EEO Program, managing informal and formal complaints for a district with over 2000 employees. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with EEOC laws, analyzing complaint trends, recommending policies, and supervising a team. The role involves setting district-level goals, participating in policy briefings, and maintaining professional relationships. Travel for site visits, training, and conferences is required.

Duties

Ensure compliance with EEOC laws and VA’s affirmative employment action program for the assigned district. Supervise subject matter experts and provide second-line supervision to GS-4 through GS-13 employees. Coordinate and address EEO complaint trends, solutions, and collaboration with ORMDI senior leaders, personnel, management, legal and EEO staff. Develop EEO policies in response to legislative changes. Advise top management officials on EEO criteria for programs. Oversee strategic initiatives that build and support a model EEO program in the VA. Participate in policy briefings, meetings, to guide EEO policies and programs. Maintain professional relationships, serve on committees, and contribute to senior-level meetings. Oversee the implementation of EEO policies to address barriers to equal employment opportunity. Oversee team operations, and training for effective supervision and completion.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Selectees are subject to a background/suitability investigation
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A probationary period may be required for employees and supervisors

Qualifications

Specialized Experience: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. 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. The Office of Personnel Management's group coverage qualification standards, associated individual occupational requirements (IOR), and individual qualification standards covering white collar occupations in the Federal competitive service can be found here. To qualify, applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-13) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as work that involves (1.) Management and oversight of an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Program to include experience in the processing or supervising others in the processing of informal and formal EEO complaint in accordance with EEO laws and regulations. (2.) Demonstrated experience working to build or support a local or national Model EEO Program which includes: (a) Demonstrated efforts to work with an organization's leadership. (b) Educating and bringing awareness to leadership and staff of the importance of a model EEO Program. (c) Demonstrated efforts that show regular engagement with senior leadership to discuss the EEO Program to include the reasonable accommodation program; conducting or participating in program compliance reviews of local EEO programs; conducting preventive training and mandated training when discrimination has been determined. (d) Completing analytical reviews of complaint data to determine trends and areas of concern; demonstrated efforts to ensure that all aspects of complaint processing is completed in a timely manner. (3.) Experience in various aspects of personnel administration, to include recruitment, staffing, labor/employee relations, performance management, coaching and mentoring staff, and administering an internal reasonable accommodation program.

Education

There is no educational substitution for the GS-14 level.

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. 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.

Contacts

• Address DAS Office of Resolution Management 810 Vermont Ave Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: John Tipton
• Phone: 313-596-7200
• Email: [email protected]