This position functions as the Minority Affairs Program Specialist (MAPS) with a working title of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer (DEI Officer) at the VA Maryland Health Care System (VAMHCS) performing a variety of duties in assigned areas of which are extremely complex medical facility, which is constantly evolving within a highly complex and competitive geographic area.

Duties

The duties of the DEI Officer include, but are not limited to: Develops local DEI policy, methodologies, and procedures with executive management to fully implement and execute the VAMHCS mission, including short- and long-range planning for DEI initiatives. Facilitates outstanding, responsive public service as the Diversity and Inclusion Officer through principled leadership, shared accountability and educating stakeholders. Promotes partnerships, customer service innovations, cooperation, and the image of VAMHCS to increase the visibility of the facility as a world class employer. Builds a welcoming and inclusive culture at the Medical Center. Develops guidelines, criteria, and standards for the conduct of all facets of VAMHCS DEI initiatives and policies. Develops, administers, and manages 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. Conducts onsite reviews or visits to VAMHCS services/departments to resolve problems and provide staff assistance on matters related to the VAs DEI Management Strategy. Work Schedule: 8am-4:30pm M-F Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Reg Teleworks 1-2 days/PP. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Minority Affairs Program Specialist/PD221060 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/23/2024. 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. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: 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: Progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field. This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities. Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and/or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following: Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems; Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement; facility planning, special studies, planning, projects, performance measures, executive level support to upper management and medical staff support; experience with project management, lean six sigma, and systems redesign. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Communications and MediaCreative ThinkingExternal AwarenessInfluencing/NegotiatingOrganizational AwarenessOrganizational Development 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.

Contacts

• Address VA Maryland Health Care System 10 North Greene Street Baltimore, MD 21201 US
• Name: Martina Portis
• Phone: 240-392-2194
• Email: [email protected]