This position is located in the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Office of Human Resources - Operations Division. Serves as supervisor over a team of Human Resource (HR) Specialists conducting staffing and recruitment, including advising supervisors and managers recruiting for vacant positions. Incumbent oversees specialist responsible for preparing vacancy announcements, veterans' preference, eligibility and qualifications; issuing certificates; and supporting onboarding of selectees.
Summary
This position is located in the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Office of Human Resources - Operations Division. Serves as supervisor over a team of Human Resource (HR) Specialists conducting staffing and recruitment, including advising supervisors and managers recruiting for vacant positions. Incumbent oversees specialist responsible for preparing vacancy announcements, veterans' preference, eligibility and qualifications; issuing certificates; and supporting onboarding of selectees.
This announcement is open to all current Federal Competitive Service, Career and Career-Conditional employees. Applicants who have non-competitive eligibility, such as, Schedule A disability, Peace Corps or VISTA, reinstatement eligibles, etc. AND those eligible under the Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) or Interchange Agreements with other Merit Systems may also apply.
As a Supervisory Human Resources Specialist, you will be responsible for duties to include, but are not limited to: Supervises a team of four to six HR Specialists and two to four Personal Services Contractors
to perform recruitment, staffing, and workforce planning.
Plans, assigns, and guides work to be accomplished by subordinates and colleagues, sets and adjusts short-term priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work.
Assigns work based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
Develops performance standards and evaluates work performance of subordinates.
Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
Interviews candidates for positions in the unit; recommends appointment, promotion, or reassignment to such positions.
Hears and resolves complaints from employees, referring group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager.
Affects minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, recommending other action in more serious cases.
Identifies developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for
needed development and training.
Administers attendance, timekeeping, and leave.
Finds ways to eliminate or reduce significant bottlenecks and barriers to production,
promotes team building, improves business practices, improves production, and increases the quality of the work directed.
Furthers the goals of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) by taking positive steps to accomplish EEO and
DEIA objectives and by adhering to nondiscriminatory employment practices.
Performs status reporting and quality control for all recruitment and staffing operations:
Performs final quality check of announcements before release, including approving job analyses.
Prepares reports related to the status of recruitment for all vacancies. Maintains the SF-52 app for accuracy.
Reviews and approves certificates before they are issued.
Reviews and approves final Case Closeout Checklists, ensuring that all USA Staffing casefiles are completed and eOPF is completed.
Provides technical advice and oversight to specialists, managers, and administrative staff throughout the agency.
Meets with Service Chiefs and Division Directors to provide recruitment statuses.
Develops and/or updates all Operations related policy and SOP's.
Reviews superior qualifications memos for completeness and compliance; sends to HR Director for signature.
Ensure all certificates issued are returned and that selections are valid and conform to OPM rules and regulations.
Reviews non-US citizen justification for completeness and compliance and sends them to HR Director for signature.
Candidates MUST meet all qualification requirements by closing date.
Applicants must complete online questionnaire.
This position has been designated supervisory requiring that the selectee on an initial appointment as a supervisor or manager serve a one-year probationary period. This position may require serving a one-year probationary period.
If you are a male applicant, born after 12/31/59, you are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act. The Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered, or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
This is a Non sensitive, high-risk position. If selected, this position requires the completion of the SF-86.
Suitability Determination: If selected, you will be subject to a background investigation to establish your suitability for federal employment. The background investigation will include, among other aspects, a review of your credit and legal history.
This position is not covered by a Union Agreement.
The full performance grade level for this position is GS-14.
Highly Desirable: Delegated Examining Unit certified.
If you are a male applicant who is born after 12/31/59, you are required to be registered for the Selective Service.
Qualifications
Applicants must have a minimum of one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility comparable to the GS-13 or comparable pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized Experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.
Specialized Experience equivalent to the next lower grade level GS-13 in the federal service (obtained in either the private or public sector) performing the following type of work and/or tasks: Candidates must possess knowledge in Federal Human Resources recruitment and placement to include Delegated Examining and classification. Examples of this type of experience include all of the following:
Experience developing/implementing human resources policies.
Experience providing substantive input to the strategic planning of human capital resources for an organization.
Experience leading or supervising a diverse team of human resources professionals and being able to provide expert HR advice and exhibit strong leadership skills.
Experience researching, interpreting and ensuring compliance with a wide range of human resources management concepts laws, regulations, policies, practices, precedents, and analytical and diagnostic methods relative to staffing and classification and
Experience applying qualitative and/or quantitative analysis techniques, sufficient to identify and resolve a wide range of complex, interrelated human resources management problems and issues.
Supervisory Abilities: This is a supervisory position and candidates, in addition to the qualification requirements described above, must have demonstrated in their work experience or training, that they possess, or have the potential to develop, the qualities of successful management, as required for the position. Time in Grade
Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year of service at the next lower grade level.
Highly Desirable: Incumbent be Delegated Examining Unit Certified. Please attach your DEU Certificate in the document section.
Education
Education is not required for this grade level. It cannot be used for qualification purposes.
Additional information
1. If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/59 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency. For Military Selective Service Act requirement information, please visit https://www.sss.gov.
2. Your application to this vacancy announcement will only allow consideration for this announcement. We cannot electronically or manually move your application to corresponding announcements if applicable.
3. Additional vacancies not reflected in the announcement that occur after the opening date of the vacancy announcement for position(s) identical (same grade, series and title) to the original vacancy may be filled from the selection certificate during the validity of the certificate.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Once your resume or application is submitted, a review of your qualifications will be made to ensure you meet the job requirements and competencies required for this position.
Competencies:
Ability to Lead or Supervise
Oral Communication
Recruitment/Placement
Writing
Possession of competencies may be addressed in a cover letter and/or resume. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the occupational questionnaire. The numeric rating you receive is based on your responses to the questionnaire. If, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your qualifications. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating.
All applicants are required to submit the following supporting document type(s):
Resume
Applicants may also submit the following supporting document type(s), which may not be required for all applicants:
SF-50
Performance Appraisals
Although the required documents listed in this announcement only indicate that a resume is required, other documents is required in specific circumstances. All required documents must be submitted before the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
1. Merit promotion applicants must meet time-in-grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, subpart F. Your latest SF-50 must be submitted for proof of time-in-grade.
2. If you are an eligible Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) applicant you may apply for special selection over other candidates for this position. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated at 80 or above on the rating criteria for this position. ICTAP eligibles must submit one of the following as proof of eligibility for the special selection priority: a separation notice; a "Notice of Personnel Action" (SF-50) documenting separation; an agency certification that you cannot be placed after injury compensation has been terminated; an OPM notification that your disability annuity has been terminated; OR a Military Department or National Guard Bureau notification that you are retired under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) or 8456.
3. Current and reinstatement eligible applicants must submit a Personnel Action (SF-50) indicating grade, competitive service, and career or career-conditional tenure.
4. Current status candidates must submit a copy of their latest Performance Appraisal.
5. If education is a requirement or there is an option to use education for qualification purposes, you must submit your unofficial transcripts with your application package at the time of applying or before the closing date of this vacancy announcement. If selected for the position, you will be required to submit official transcripts before your Enter on Duty date.
6. Applicants applying under Schedule A Disability must submit an appropriate letter from a physician.
7. Applicants applying under Peace Corps or VISTA eligibility must submit a letter supporting eligibility.
8. Applicants applying under Veterans Employment Opportunity Act of 1998 must submit a DD-214 stating discharge type. If you are still on active duty, you may submit a statement of service from your Personnel Command which states the date you entered active duty, the date you are separating, and the campaign medals you have received.
9. Applicants applying for consideration under an Interchange Agreement with Other Merit Systems must submit a recent SF-50 or other personnel action (e.g., Post Office, Non-appropriated fund), reflecting status as a current employee under an approved system.
You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application. If you cannot complete the Application Package online, please contact the Human Resource Specialist listed in this vacancy announcement.
To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents and any appropriate Accepted Documents.
To begin, click Apply in the announcement; then, choose to create a new USAJOBS account or Sign-in into your existing account.
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package.
You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before submitting it. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After completing the questionnaire and uploading appropriate documents, click the Submit Application to submit your application package.
It is applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered in the profile is accurate and all required documents are uploaded and submitted before 11:59 PM (EST) on 06/12/2023 of the announcement to receive consideration.
Human Resources will not modify or change any part of your application. If a document is not in legible format, applicant will not be able to view it in Application Manager which means applicant must again upload the documentation to the system by the closing date of this announcement.
To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account. The page will display the positions for which you've applied as well as the status of each application.
To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click on the plus sign (+) next to the job title to expand information about the job. Next click on Update Application to complete the application process.
Note: Submission of a resume alone IS NOT a complete application. This position requires the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental materials as described previously. Please carefully review the complete job announcement, including the Required Documents, Other Information, and How to Apply sections of the announcement.
Application packages will NOT be accepted via mail or e-mail. All resumes/applications received at the addresses listed in the Contact Information or Agency Information will be destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement.
Once the online questionnaire and application package is received, you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful. After a review of your complete application is made, you will be notified of your status and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluation or interviews are required, you will be contacted.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
All applicants are required to submit the following supporting document type(s):
Resume
Applicants may also submit the following supporting document type(s), which may not be required for all applicants:
SF-50
Performance Appraisals
Although the required documents listed in this announcement only indicate that a resume is required, other documents is required in specific circumstances. All required documents must be submitted before the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
1. Merit promotion applicants must meet time-in-grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, subpart F. Your latest SF-50 must be submitted for proof of time-in-grade.
2. If you are an eligible Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) applicant you may apply for special selection over other candidates for this position. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated at 80 or above on the rating criteria for this position. ICTAP eligibles must submit one of the following as proof of eligibility for the special selection priority: a separation notice; a "Notice of Personnel Action" (SF-50) documenting separation; an agency certification that you cannot be placed after injury compensation has been terminated; an OPM notification that your disability annuity has been terminated; OR a Military Department or National Guard Bureau notification that you are retired under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) or 8456.
3. Current and reinstatement eligible applicants must submit a Personnel Action (SF-50) indicating grade, competitive service, and career or career-conditional tenure.
4. Current status candidates must submit a copy of their latest Performance Appraisal.
5. If education is a requirement or there is an option to use education for qualification purposes, you must submit your unofficial transcripts with your application package at the time of applying or before the closing date of this vacancy announcement. If selected for the position, you will be required to submit official transcripts before your Enter on Duty date.
6. Applicants applying under Schedule A Disability must submit an appropriate letter from a physician.
7. Applicants applying under Peace Corps or VISTA eligibility must submit a letter supporting eligibility.
8. Applicants applying under Veterans Employment Opportunity Act of 1998 must submit a DD-214 stating discharge type. If you are still on active duty, you may submit a statement of service from your Personnel Command which states the date you entered active duty, the date you are separating, and the campaign medals you have received.
9. Applicants applying for consideration under an Interchange Agreement with Other Merit Systems must submit a recent SF-50 or other personnel action (e.g., Post Office, Non-appropriated fund), reflecting status as a current employee under an approved system.
You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application. If you cannot complete the Application Package online, please contact the Human Resource Specialist listed in this vacancy announcement.
To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents and any appropriate Accepted Documents.
To begin, click Apply in the announcement; then, choose to create a new USAJOBS account or Sign-in into your existing account.
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package.
You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before submitting it. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After completing the questionnaire and uploading appropriate documents, click the Submit Application to submit your application package.
It is applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered in the profile is accurate and all required documents are uploaded and submitted before 11:59 PM (EST) on 06/12/2023 of the announcement to receive consideration.
Human Resources will not modify or change any part of your application. If a document is not in legible format, applicant will not be able to view it in Application Manager which means applicant must again upload the documentation to the system by the closing date of this announcement.
To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account. The page will display the positions for which you've applied as well as the status of each application.
To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click on the plus sign (+) next to the job title to expand information about the job. Next click on Update Application to complete the application process.
Note: Submission of a resume alone IS NOT a complete application. This position requires the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental materials as described previously. Please carefully review the complete job announcement, including the Required Documents, Other Information, and How to Apply sections of the announcement.
Application packages will NOT be accepted via mail or e-mail. All resumes/applications received at the addresses listed in the Contact Information or Agency Information will be destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement.
Once the online questionnaire and application package is received, you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful. After a review of your complete application is made, you will be notified of your status and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluation or interviews are required, you will be contacted.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
