Job opening: Supervisory Workforce Development Specialist
Salary: $152 105 - 191 900 per year
Published at: Aug 15 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located under the United States Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA), San Francisco Regional Office.
This position is outside the bargaining unit.
Duties
Duties for this Position Include:
- Develops annual monitoring/technical assistance plans to accomplish organizational goals, establishing systems and methods to ensure efficient and effective management of resources.
- Modifies resource allocations in response to changes in plans, goals or conditions.
- Establishes evaluation systems to measure the quality of program products and services.
- Considers functional relationships among Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and partner agency programs and offices when planning for and managing resources.
-Effectively represents the Department and the Regional Office internally and externally and effectively communicates Departmental and Agency priorities.
- Promotes and sustains positive relationships with customers, stakeholders and partners, to include collaboration with various officials from Federal, State and Local government agencies.
- Works as a partner with other Offices to facilitate the achievement of goals and ensures that all interested parties are kept informed about key activities and developments.
- Reviews work within the assigned areas and allocates resources to ensure completion of agency mission and office work plan.
- Ensures that implementation of operating plan obligations is met, program performance goals are closely tracked, and prepares suggestions for mid-course corrections.
- Coordinates Division activities with other Divisions and Offices throughout ETA.
- Facilitates discussions with grantees or groups of grantees with the intent of identifying common issues, ensuring compliance, delivering technical assistance, sharing and implementing departmental priorities.
- Supervises employees individually and in the work of teams.
- Links individual performance requirements to organizational goals and incorporates organizational performance into discussions about individual ratings.
- Interviews and selects candidates for vacancies and initiates other personnel actions; provides advice, counsel, and instruction to individual employees on performance, and administrative matters; establishes performance standards, evaluates performance of employees; initiates disciplinary measures and adverse actions as needed; also supports EEO affirmative action plans and objectives.
- Provides assistance to office staff on personnel matters relating to recruitment, promotions, details, reassignments, grievances, etc.
- Creates a work environment that encourages and rewards innovative thinking and problem resolution, formal and informal development of staff, and fairness and equity in recognizing and encouraging opportunities for performance awards, professional development, and general assessment of staff needs and capabilities.
- Monitors the performance of assigned division with respect to the operational plan and ETA grants management guidance including Employment Training Orders (ETOs), the core monitoring guide and its supplements, and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Develops and recommends short and long-range program plans taking into consideration of management objectives.
- Advises Regional Director on significant compliance issues with grantees and assists in the development of technical assistance to address those compliance issues.
- Oversees the assessment of grantee data and ensures timely and responsive technical assistance using ETA wide risk analysis techniques and tools that identify grantees at greatest risk.
- Serves as agency expert and authoritative consultant internally and externally in one or more types of grants including ETA discretionary investments, formula grants funded under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and grants to states in support of unemployment insurance operations within states.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
- Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
- Subject to financial disclosure requirements.
- Requires a supervisory probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
Qualifications
For GS-14: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level of GS-13 in the Federal Service.
Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.
Qualifying specialized experience for GS-14 includes three of the following:
- Experience with federal grants management processes and providing technical assistance (eg. ability to monitor, evaluate, and administer assigned grants).
- Experience applying financial methods, procedures, and practices to assess the financial stability for recipients of Federal grants or cooperative agreements.
- Experience assessing, evaluating, and monitoring projects for compliance and making sound recommendations for workforce development programs related to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
- Experience analyzing and interpreting any of the following: financial and statistical data, statutes, regulations, and program guidelines.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC, WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.
Note: Please be sure these types of examples are evident in your resume.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address Employment and Training Administration
200 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20210
US
- Name: Kevin Michigan
- Phone: 972-850-2513
- Email: [email protected]
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