This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Assistant Secretary for Administration (ASA), Office of Human Resources (OHR). The incumbent reports to the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Human Resources who also serves as HHS' Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO).

Duties

ABOUT THE POSITION Serves as senior adviser and consultant to the DASHR, ASA and departmental senior leaders on all matters affecting the Department's human capital functions. Makes authoritative recommendations for resolving key, critical, sensitive, and controversial human capital issues. Serves as an authoritative expert on all aspects of strategic human capital management and collaborates with other Federal agencies, organizations, and officials, such as OPM, OMB, other Deputy Chief Human Capital Officers, and Human Resources Directors to execute the CHCO Council goal of coordinating and organizing all human capital efforts across the federal government. Provides leadership in directing human capital policies, procedures and guidelines, and ensuring HHS is well structured to support its mission. Plans, coordinates, and evaluates the HHS human capital programs, ensuring human resources strategies and plans are aligned to HHS strategic mission, program objectives, and performance outcomes while providing executive management and leadership. Develops effective goals and measures to ensure HHS recruits, hires, develops, and retains employees with strategic competencies for mission-critical occupations and that leadership inspires, motivates, and guides employees toward goals through coaching and mentoring. Partners with the Director, Office of Equal Opportunity, Diversity, and Inclusion in developing and implementing human capital programs and policies to build a diverse and inclusive workforce. Ensures human capital programs and resources align with opportunities to strengthen and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in recruiting, hiring, developing, promoting, and retaining. Leads departmental initiatives to promote fair and equitable treatment in all human capital planning and management aspects. Develop strategies for creating a culture that motivates employees for high performance in conducting the work of the Department. Develops effective performance management systems to adequately distinguish between performance levels and to ensure employees know their work is valued and their performance is recognized as contributing to the execution of the Department's mission.

Requirements

• This employer participates in the E-Verify Program
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Subject to satisfactory security and suitability determinations
• New appointees must successfully complete a 1-year probationary period
• Must pass a pre-employment drug test; random testing after appointment
• This is a career position in the SES. Unless the selectee is already a member of the SES with career status or has successfully completed an SES Candidate Development Program certified by OPM.
• Executive qualifications must be approved by OPM before appointment can be effected. If you are selected, you will be responsible for working with an HHS Executive Consultant, or QRB Writer to develop an ECQ narrative for submission to OPM
• You must meet the qualification requirements of this position no later than the closing date of the job opportunity announcement.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement, applicants must demonstrate progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level managerial capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under the Mandatory/Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the equivalent of the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service or its equivalent with state and local government, the private sector, or non-governmental organizations. Failure to meet this basic qualification requirement and all executive and technical qualification factors will automatically exclude you from further consideration. All competitive candidates for SES positions with the Federal Government must demonstrate leadership experience indicative of senior executive level management capability. To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show in your resume that you possess the Fundamental Competencies, five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs), and the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ's), listed below. It is recommended that your resume emphasize levels of responsibility, scope and complexity of programs managed, and program accomplishments and results. Fundamental Competencies: Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Written Communication, Continual Learning, and Public Service Motivation. Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs): 1. Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. 2. Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 3. Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. 4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. 5. Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ's): This position also requires that you possess MTQs that represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. The following MTQ's must be evident in your resume. Demonstrated experience designing and implementing innovative and creative Human Capital policies, programs, and strategies in a complex and rapidly changing environment. Demonstrated experience developing and implementing programs to measure and improve the effectiveness of human resource programs for a large federal organization with complex, varied mission requirements, with particular emphasis on high-performing human resources operations. It is STRONGLY recommended that you visit the following Office of Personnel Management (OPM) webpage for more information regarding the Fundamental Competencies and ECQs. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/#url=Overview IF SELECTED, you will be required to complete an ECQ package by drafting narratives for each of the ECQs and be certified by an OPM Qualifications Review Board (QRB) in order to be placed in this position. If you currently serve in a career SES appointment, are eligible for reinstatement into the SES, or have successfully completed an SES Candidate Development Program approved by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), you WILL NOT need to draft the ECQs.

Education

There is no positive education requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address Assistant Secretary for Administration 200 Independence Ave SW Washington, DC 20201 US
• Name: Breanna Stewart
• Phone: (202) 969-3583
• Email: [email protected]