Supervisory Program Specialist (Human Capital)

Summary

The ideal candidate has experience leading a human capital or employee services team in a fast-paced organization, with demonstrated expertise in recruitment and placement, position management, personnel actions, performance management, employee and labor relations support, workforce planning, and oversee staffing solutions for disaster operations.

Duties

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will transition and facilitate personnel processes to be customer oriented and center on contributions that it can add to the long-term accomplishments of the agency's mission. Typical assignments include: Leading and supervising the Employee Services Branch, including assigning work, setting priorities, monitoring deliverables, reviewing work products, evaluating performance, coaching staff, and addressing employee performance or conduct matters. Providing human capital advisory services to regional leaders, managers, supervisors, and employees on recruitment, staffing, position management, personnel actions, performance management, employee and labor relations coordination, benefits, workers' compensation, and employee development. Overseeing recruitment, placement, and workforce planning activities, including developing staffing strategies, reviewing personnel action needs, supporting organizational changes, monitoring vacancies, and advising management on current and future workforce requirements. Supporting disaster workforce readiness and incident staffing operations, including coordinating staffing support for disaster operations, supporting FEMA Qualification System and incident workforce initiatives, and ensuring the Region has personnel capacity to meet emergency response requirements. Analyzing workforce data and prepares briefings, reports, and recommendations, including tracking staffing trends, identifying program issues, interpreting HR policies and guidance, and advising senior leadership on process improvements and workforce risks. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

Qualifications

Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-14 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Providing human capital advisory services to leaders on staffing, recruitment, personnel actions, position management, performance management, employee relations, or related workforce matters; and Developing or implementing recruitment, staffing, or workforce planning strategies and analyzing workforce or personnel data to support organizational mission needs, fill vacancies, address staffing gaps, or recommend management actions; and Overseeing disaster response staffing or incident workforce activities, including coordinating staffing needs, advising on related policies, or ensuring staffing actions meet operational requirements; and Leading, supervising, or coordinating the work of a team, including assigning work, setting priorities, monitoring progress, reviewing work products, coaching staff, or evaluating performance. Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application: Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Please limit your resume to two pages. The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages. Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the grade level, occupational series and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/DAE employee? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified." 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 provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards

Education

No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the "requirements" section of this announcement.