Job opening: Equal Employment Specialist
Salary: $117 962 - 153 354 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Dec 12 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Coast Guard (USCG), Civil Rights Directorate (CRD), Equity, Policy and Compliance (CG-00H-22), Washington, DC.
Duties
You will serve as an Equal Employment Specialist drafting Final Agency Decisions and reasonable accommodation appeal decisions, assisting civil rights service providers with reasonable accommodation requests, providing guidance on disability access matters and policy, analyzing files and drafting response letters to congressional inquiries and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and policy on all aspects of the Coast Guard's (CG) civil rights program; and serve as the CRD's expert on reasonable accommodations, the Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act, and other related laws, regulations, and policy..
Qualifications
To qualify at the GS-13 grade level, applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the federal service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
Specialized experience must include:
Interpreting and applying Federal EEO regulations, statutes, executive orders, court decisions, and dispute resolution processes.
Conducting case law research and analysis.
Ensuring compliance with EEO statutes, regulations, and case law.
Developing oral briefings and training sessions on equal employment programs, plans, and goals.
Drafting merit decisions.
NOTE: Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level.
National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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, 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.
The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
Education
This position does not have a positive education requirement.
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