As a Personnel Psychologist, you will provide advice and guidance to departmental leadership, management officials, and employees on a variety of major departmental-wide programs and policies related to human capital, diversity, inclusion, and organizational development, as well as measure and assess their effectiveness.

Duties

Provide data-analytic decision support to leadership. Develop, conduct, and use evidence-based studies to evaluate organizational culture and employee social behaviors and the impact of the workforce environment. Create and monitor evaluation metrics for equal employment opportunity, diversity, and inclusion programs. Serve as a workforce environment subject matter expert, responsible for developing practices relating to employee social behaviors and management practices. Improve human capital programs and or influence policy change that typically involves long-range, highly complex, and potentially politically sensitive topics within the framework of management objectives and priorities. Keep abreast on new assessment tools that can be used within a department. Provide current and emerging assessment options and models.

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. You must meet both the Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) and the Specialized Experience by the closing date of this announcement.IOR: Degree: major or equivalent in psychology for all specializations except clinical psychology and counseling psychology. These two specializations have additional educational requirements, as stated below: Clinical psychology: For positions at grades GS-11 and above, satisfactory completion of all the requirements for the doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) directly related to full professional work in clinical psychology is required. Counseling psychology: For positions at grades GS-9 and above, satisfactory completion of 2 full academic years of graduate study directly related to professional work in counseling psychology, or satisfactory completion in an accredited educational institution of all the requirements for a master's degree directly related to counseling psychology is required. Specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as work that involves: (1) Reviewing policies, practices, and procedures for hidden impediments regarding equal opportunity for applicants and employees (2) Designing organizational competency assessments, developing plans, strategies, indices, frameworks, and analytical toolkits to enhance organizational objectives (3) Constructing and evaluating customized assessment tools, workforce indicators and/or applicable core metrics. (4) Expressing information to multiple audiences through clear, oral, and written communications (reports, guides, presentations, briefings, white papers, toolkits, training). (5) Conducting statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative data using advanced statistical packages such as SPSS, SAS, or R.

Education

An unofficial or official copy of your transcripts must be submitted with your application in order to support the Individual Occupational Requirement.


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: 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://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

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