Equal Employment Manager

Your tasks

About the Position: Serves as Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) program manager and principal advisor to the District Commander on the Equal Employment Opportunity Program including managing the program for the District in a wide variety of occupations including professional, administrative, technical, clerical, trades, operatives, and laborers.

• Provide leadership and advisement to Command and Senior Leaders in carrying out EEO programs and anti-discrimination policies.
• Manage the District's EEO Program to assure effective dissemination and understanding of program information by all levels.
• Manage the informal and formal processing of EEO complaints of discrimination within established time limits.
• Conduct informal negotiation with complainants in an effort to effect resolution of complaints.
• Identify equal employment opportunity problem areas, barriers, and specific action-oriented plans for correcting those areas.
• Analyze individual equal employment opportunity problems and apply judgment to make technical recommendations for decisions in complaint cases.
• Brief Command and Senior Leaders on community conditions and attitudes having implications on workforce utilization
• Negotiate and counsel persons in various social or economic strata of society regardless of the status of their position.

Requirements

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Civilian Employees of the Command, Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan, Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act, Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473, Priority Placement Program, DoD, Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD, Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD, MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD, Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998.

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience requirement: Specialized experience is defined as experience managing or advising on Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) programs, processing formal or informal EEO complaints, and conducting barrier analysis to ensure merit-based, non-discriminatory employment practices. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Conflict Management, Leadership, Oral Communication, Problem Solving.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience above in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualifications requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.