Clarification from the agency

Open to all groups of qualified individuals. Current employees within the Federal civil service. SES reinstatement eligibles and SESCDP graduates may also apply for noncompetitive consideration.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The incumbent serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Resources (DASHR) and as the Department's Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO) reporting to the ASA. Under general direction of the Assistant Secretary, the DASHR is responsible for managing the Department's human resources programs, and advising the ASA and senior leadership, to include the Secretary and Deputy Secretary, as well as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on human capital strategies and policies and the assessment of human capital management in HHS.

Serves as principal adviser and consultant to the ASA and senior leaders of the Department, on all matters affecting the Department's human capital functions. Makes authoritative recommendations for resolving key, critical, sensitive, and controversial human capital issues.

Serves as the Department's authoritative expert on all aspects of strategic human capital management and collaborates with other Federal agencies, organizations, and officials, such as OPM, OMB, other Chief Human Capital Officers, and Human Resources Directors to execute the CHCO Council goal of coordinating and organizing all human capital efforts across the federal government.

Advises Human Resources Directors across the Department, overseeing all human capital programs and activities to ensure there is an explicit and well-communicated link between human resources strategies and plans and HHS's strategic mission/program as it pertains to recruitment, training, development, and retention of a diverse and highly qualified workforce across the Department.

Provides leadership in directing human capital policies, procedures and guidelines, and ensuring HHS is well structured to support its mission. Plans, coordinates, and evaluates the HHS human capital programs, ensuring human resources strategies and plans are aligned to HHS strategic mission, program objectives, and performance outcomes while providing executive management and leadership.

Develops effective goals and measures to ensure HHS recruits, hires, develops, and retains employees with strategic competencies for mission critical occupations and that leadership inspires, motivates, and guides employees toward goals through coaching and mentoring.

Conditions of employment

• This employer participates in the E-Verify Program
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Subject to satisfactory security and suitability determinations
• New appointees must successfully complete a 1-year probationary period
• This is a career position in the SES. Unless the selectee is already a member of the SES with career status or has successfully completed an SES Candidate Development Program certified by OPM.
• Executive qualifications must be approved by OPM before appointment can be effected. If you are selected, you will be responsible for working with an HHS Executive Consultant, or QRB Writer to develop an ECQ narrative for submission to OPM
• You must meet the qualification requirements of this position no later than the closing date of the job opportunity announcement.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement, applicants must demonstrate progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level managerial capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under the Mandatory/Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the equivalent of the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service or its equivalent with state and local government, the private sector, or non-governmental organizations. Failure to meet this basic qualification requirement and all executive and technical qualification factors will automatically exclude you from further consideration.

All competitive candidates for SES positions with the Federal Government must demonstrate leadership experience indicative of senior executive level management capability. To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show in your resume that you possess the Fundamental Competencies, five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs), and the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ's), listed below. It is recommended that your resume emphasize levels of responsibility, scope and complexity of programs managed, and program accomplishments and results.

Fundamental Competencies:

Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Written Communication, Continual Learning, and Public Service Motivation.

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs):

1. Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.

2. Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.

3. Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.

4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.

5. Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.

Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ's):

This position also requires that you possess MTQ's that represent knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. The following MTQ's must be evident in your resume.

1. Demonstrated mastery of human resource and capital leadership, operations, and principles, including the associated budget and resource management, for a large, complex organization. Skills and experience should include designing, developing, implementing, and communicating strategic and operational programs and policy, such as in the areas of overarching vision and strategy, recruitment, classification, labor/employee relations, performance management, with a demonstrated understanding of how federal laws and regulations under the United States Code and Code of Federal Regulations apply to each.
2. Demonstrated experience leading, developing, and implementing programs to measure and improve the effectiveness of human resource programs for a large federal organization with complex, varied mission requirements, with particular emphasis on high-performing human resources operations.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your resume (NOT TO EXCEED FIVE PAGES), demonstrating possession of the technical qualifications and achievement of the five executive core qualifications are the documents that will be used to determine your basic and specialized qualifications for the position. YOU MUST ADHERE TO THE PAGE LIMITS ABOVE OR YOU WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.