These positions are located in the Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Operations, Office of Human Resources, Division of Workforce Relations, Employee Benefits & Performance Management Branch. The duty locations for these positions are in Rockville, MD and Atlanta, GA. These positions are 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

To view the salary range including locality pay for your particular location, please visit this link to the 2024 OPM Salary Tables. This position is a mission critical occupation and is responsible for ensuring that operational and fiscal activities align with and enable accomplishment of Health Resources and Services Administration's mission, goals and objectives. As an Ethics Specialist, you will serve as an ethics advisor for various HRSA Bureaus and Offices and as a liaison to the HHS Office of the General Counsel, the Office of Government Ethics, and the HHS Secretary's advisory committees. Your major duties and responsibilities include: Assisting managers with identifying confidential and public financial disclosure report filers. Researching, interpreting, analyzing, and applying laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures involving Federal government ethics matters. Reviewing financial disclosure reports (OGE Form 450, OGE Form 278 and OGE Form 278-E) for accuracy, timeliness, and real or potential conflict of interest. Developing briefings, status reports, position papers, etc., to foster an understanding and acceptance of ethics rules, laws, regulations, policies, and procedures. Communicating with a variety of contacts to obtain information, investigate matters, explain ethics related laws, regulations, and procedures, and justify recommendations, etc., Conducting briefings and training sessions addressing, justifying decisions and recommendations, and similar activities. 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 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: 08/09/2024 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. MINIMUM QUALIFYING SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform 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. In order to qualify for this position at the GS-13 level, your resume must clearly demonstrate that you have one full year of the minimum qualifying specialized experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-12 level in the federal service. Examples of the minimum qualifying specialized experience equal to the GS-12 level include the following types of tasks performed on a regular and recurring basis: 1. Analyzing ethics issues and recommending resolution in accordance with Federal laws, policies, regulations, and precedents. OR 2. Providing advice and guidance on various aspects of federal public and confidential financial disclosures. 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 who meet the minimum qualification requirements for the position will be assessed via the occupational assessment questionnaire on the following competencies: ETHICS KNOWLEDGE - Understands and applies knowledge of, and promotes compliance with, appropriate ethics statues, regulations, policies, and procedures. CONFLICT OF INTEREST ANALYSIS - Conducting assessment or analysis of situations that has the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of the possibility of a clash between the person's self-interest and professional interest or public interest. COMMUNICATIONS - Delivers clear, effective communication and takes responsibility for understanding others. TRAINING - Seeks, develops, and delivers useful, relevant training for growth or performance enhancement. TO PREVIEW THE OCCUPATIONAL ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE, please click on the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12454303 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 08/09/2024. 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

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]