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Job opening: Equal Employment Specialist

Salary: $88 520 - 115 079 per year
City: Fairfield
Published at: Sep 24 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties

WHAT IS THE EDI-Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion DIVISION? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion - Disability Services The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. The Specialist is responsible for participating in the preparation of the Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program (FEORP) and assists the Personnel Branch in meeting the program objectives regarding FEORP. Employee actively participates on selection panels and recruitment projects. The employee collects and analyzes EEO statistical data, prepares comprehensive reports, notes trends and/or omissions, conducts studies, organizational reviews, and workforce analysis to identify systemic equal employment problems in AWSS. Recommendations are made to management, accordingly, based upon findings. The Specialist is assigned counseling responsibilities involving highly complex and sensitive complaint issues. Incumbent provides technical support and assistance to other EEO counselors in administering the complaint process. Incumbent also processes informal individual complaints and class complaints of discrimination in accordance with the established laws and regulations. Secures relevant information from managers/management officials, employees, and other witnesses as appropriate. Incumbent implements procedures to attempt resolution of complaints through the Alternative Dispute Resolution process and other avenues. Assists in designing and administering EEO training programs which promote a healthy working environment. Initiates and/or implements special education programs for managers and employees to enhance understanding of their rights and legal obligations associated with EEO and diversity, i.e., prepare, design, provide input into the local newsletter, draft articles on current issues and trends in the subject field, promotes submission of articles on current EEO topics of interest. Reviews legislative and program proposals to determine overall impact on EEO programs and initiatives, makes appropriate modifications. Initiates division or areawide studies of occupations in which discrimination is apparent and formulates corrective action for implementation. This position has career progression. If you are selected at a grade level lower than the full working level, you may be non-competitively promoted as your career progresses. For example, you may be hired as a GS-05, but if the position has career progression to GS-11, then you may move from a GS-05 to a GS-11 in as little as three years.

Requirements

Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-13 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR GS-13: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes experience that is related to the work of this position and has provided you with the competencies required for successful job performance. Qualifying experience is experience that demonstrated accomplishment of EEO or reasonable accommodation projects applying knowledge of the cause and effect of discrimination and the problems of minorities, persons with disabilities, and women in the workplace. Such skills are typically gained in the Human Resources, EEO, Diversity & Inclusion, and Reasonable Accommodations field or through performance of work where the primary concern was the equal employment opportunity efforts required to facilitate major projects or the basic duties. This knowledge is generally demonstrated by assignments where the applicant analyzed a number of alternative approaches in the process of advising management concerning major aspects of inquires/investigations to include: interpreting, explaining and applying knowledge of EEO laws including ADAAA and Rehabilitation Act of 1973, regulations, and administrative decisions to negotiate and resolve unprecedented, broad, difficult and complex problems; utilizing fact finding, analytical, problem solving, investigative, and interviewing methods and techniques; and organizing and presenting facts, findings, conclusions, and recommendations in a logical manner. OR EDUCATION: OR COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. AND MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks. AND TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens". AND You must meet the following special requirements: AND For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

Education

For positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying for this position by substituting education or training for experience, submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. An official transcript will be required if you are selected.
A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.

Contacts

  • Address EDI - Disability Services 1111 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20224 US
  • Name: (ERC) Employee Resource Center
  • Phone: 866-743-5748

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