SUPERVISORY EQUAL EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST, GS-0260-14 WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE

Duties You will serve as a Regional Director for the USCG, Civil Rights Directorate. You will provide principle technical information to senior leaders, managers, and supervisors on Civil Rights matters, including Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Equal Opportunity (EO) matters. As a Supervisory, Equal Employment Specialist, you will be responsible for overseeing, managing, planning, developing, implementing, reviewing, and evaluating Civil Rights Policies, Programs and Activities within the Region and detached Zone locations. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: * Providing guidance to CG units on the implementation of Civil Rights Programs as an integral element of the unit's mission. * Managing the discrimination complaint process, including writing letters of acceptance, or drafting dismissals, throughout the area of responsibility and the field locations. * Assigning workload to subordinate EEO Specialists and Equal Opportunity Advisors, and monitoring progress to completion for accuracy, effectiveness, and timeliness of processing. * Serving as an authoritative consultant to managers and employees on their rights and responsibilities throughout the EEO/EO complaint and reasonable accommodation processes. * Serving as the agency source of expertise in ADR techniques and provides technical guidance to CG employees and managers in the utilization of the process to resolve workplace disputes. * Developing the respective training programs, policies and guidance, and reviewing personnel management guidance, practices, procedures, policies, instructions, and directives to ensure EEO Program compliance with legal mandates and overall CG policy. Requirements Conditions of Employment * Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service. * U.S. Citizenship is required. * Time-in-grade requirements must be met by closing date. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. This includes Time-In-Grade requirements for current status employees applying through merit promotion procedures. Status applicants applying for a promotion must have 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade. Qualifications To qualify for the GS-14 level: Applicants must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 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: * Providing leadership and direction for the agency's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Civil Rights programs. * Serving as an expert on reasonable accommodations, processing requests, and reviewing and analyzing reasonable accommodation appeal files for determinations. * Creating broad guidelines and regulations to resolve complex, systemic problems that impact employment policies and practices. * Analyzing communications on controversial, politically sensitive, and complex matters to assure conformance with executive policy. * Conducting legal research and written analysis on EEO laws and regulation. * Drafting Final Agency Decisions and response letters to congressional inquiries and FOIA requests. NOTE: Education can/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. Additional information Applicants will be required to complete questions contained on the Declaration for Federal Employment (OF-306) at the time a tentative job offer is made. Certain responses on the form could pose a problem with suitability for employment determinations. If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you will be required to complete/make updates to the OF-306 and to sign and certify the accuracy of all information in your application, prior to entry on duty. False statements on any part of the application may result in withdrawal of offer of employment, dismissal after beginning work, or imprisonment. DHS uses e-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about e-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities at click here Recruitment incentives may be authorized. All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit. The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR § 213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR § 315.707. Veterans , Peace Corps / VISTA volunteers , and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents, experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission. If you are a member of one of these groups, you may not have to compete with the public for federal jobs. To determine your eligibility for non-competitive appointment and to understand the required documentation, click on the links above or contact the Servicing Human Resources Office listed at the bottom of this announcement. More than 1 selection may be made from this announcement if additional identical vacancies in the same title, series, grade, and unit occur within 45 days from the date the certificate was issued. If you need a reasonable accommodation for the application and hiring process, please contact 202-372-0000. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Visit Reasonable Accommodation How You Will Be Evaluated You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. We will review your résumé and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the minimum qualifications, your experience, education and training will be rated using the on-line self-assessment questions that are based on the following competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform this job: * Knowledge of concepts, principles, and methods and federal EEO. * Knowledge of the problem-solving techniques of the field and the legal framework in which the program operates. * Skill in interpreting and developing guidelines and regulations that are questioned, challenged, or require negotiating to secure acceptance. * Skill in written and oral communication. Your resume and responses to the self-assessment questions are an integral part of the process for determining your qualifications for the position. Therefore, you must support your responses to the self-assessment questions by providing examples of past and present experience in your resume. If you are best qualified, you may be referred to the hiring manager for consideration and may be called for an interview. Consideration will be given to performance appraisals and incentive awards as an indicator of quality of prior experience; no points will be assigned. You may preview questions for this vacancy. Required Documents 1. Resume (must list your educational and work experience including the dates (mm/dd/yy) of each employment along with the number of hours worked per week). 2. Completed online questionnaire 3. Current or former federal employees, submit a copy of most recent SF-50, Notice of Personnel Action, which demonstrates your eligibility for consideration, e.g., length of time you have been in your current/highest grade. Examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, with-in grade increases, NOT performance awards. 4. If qualifying based on education, submit a legible copy of your unofficial college transcript from an accredited college/university. The transcript must reflect the college/university name and/or logo. Applicants are highly encouraged to proactively order a copy of their official transcripts to be delivered to their home address so transcripts will be readily available if selected. If selected, official transcripts are required prior to establishing your start date. Foreign education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet education requirements if you can show that it is comparable to education received in U.S. accredited institutions. Provide proof with your application. Please see click here. 5. If claiming special priority selection rights under the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), submit a copy of your agency notice, most recent performance rating and most recent SF-50, noting your current position, grade level and duty location. If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not ICTAP eligible. To be considered eligible, you must be placed in the well-qualified category for this position. Please see ICTAP eligibility. 6. If you are claiming veterans' preference, submit the following documents. Pl