Clarification from the agency

Current Federal employees serving under career or career-conditional competitive service appointments, former Federal employees with reinstatement eligibility, or persons eligible for non-competitive appointment under special appointment authorities. Veterans who are preference eligible or separated from the armed forces under honorable conditions after 3 or more years of continuous service may apply under the Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA).

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This position is located in the Office of Evaluations and Inspections/Headquarters or Regional Offices

Duties are at the GS-15 level, and include but are not limited to the following;

• Ensuring that OEI as an evaluation organization and our evaluation reports (products) meet CIGIE, OIG, and OEI quality standards and to promote excellence in our staff and our work, including our effectiveness in driving positive change in HHS programs through our evaluations.
• Managing staff responsible for ensuring that all OEI public products are statistically and editorially accurate. Periodically assess OEI's product review processes and tools and advise OEI executives about how to improve their efficiency and effectiveness, and oversee OEI's evaluation distribution and production processes.
• Maintaining deep expertise in all aspects of planning, designing, and executing high-quality and high-impact evaluations of HHS programs and apply that expertise to developing and overseeing procedures, processes, and tools to support the quality and impact of OEI work.
• Overseeing the development of resources and tools for OEI staff (e.g., templates, guidance documents, checklists, presentations) to support excellence in our evaluation work.

Conditions of employment

• U.S Citizenship is required.
• Registration with the Selective Service (if applicable).
• Suitability for Federal employment determined by background investigation.
• One-year supervisory probationary period may be required.
• Time in grade must be met within 30 days of closing date of announcement.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all the qualification requirements, including education, and any selective placement factors described below within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. Education used as part of an application package will only be considered if complete transcripts are submitted and must be from an accredited institution as recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. To see if your institution is accredited, please follow this link: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx

Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: (1) Overseeing all aspects of planning, designing, and executing high-quality and high-impact evaluations of Federal programs; and (2) developing and overseeing procedures, processes, and tools to support the quality and impact of program evaluations; and (3) overseeing policies and procedures to ensure full compliance with professional evaluation standards.

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. Your resume should include the dates of all qualifying experience (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours worked/volunteered per week.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Additional selections may be made for similar positions across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) within the local commuting area(s) of the location identified in this announcement. By applying, you agree to have your application shared with interested selecting official(s) at HHS. Clearance of CTAP/ICTAP will be applied for similar positions across HHS.

Your eligibility for consideration and qualifications for the position will be determined based upon a review of your detailed resume and your responses to job specific self-assessment questions. Your resume will be evaluated based on evidence of your ability to demonstrate possession of any specialized experience and how well your background and experience relates to the self-assessment questions in the job announcement.

The self-assessment questions relate to the following knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies (KSA's). You do not have to provide a narrative response to the KSA's.

• Compliance
• Leadership
• Oral Communication
• Product Evaluation
• Quality Assurance
• Writing

Your responses to the self-assessment questions serve as the basis for your initial rating. You will receive a numerical score based on your responses to these questions. Next, your responses will be evaluated by a Human Resources Specialist and/or a subject matter expert against the information provided in your resume. Your resume must support your answers to the self-assessment questions, or your score may be adjusted or lowered accordingly which may affect your overall final rating. Falsifying your background, education, and/or experience is cause for not hiring you or for changing your scored responses to questions you've answered, which may affect your overall final score.

Please note that a complete application is required for consideration. (Please review the "Required Documents" section of this job announcement to see what must be included in a complete application).

To view the application form, visit: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12007814