Program Specialist (Personnel Liaison)

Hyattsville, MD

Employer:	FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
Job Type:	Full Time
Description
Summary This position is located in the Office of Response and Recovery, Recovery Directorate, Service Center Support. In this position, the incumbent is the subject matter expert on using the various Human Resources management automation programs. Duties What will I do in this position if hired? In this Program Specialist (Personnel Liaison) position, you will counsel and advise managers and supervisors on complex recruitment and other staffing actions, to ensure that staffing priorities are observed, and that personnel policies and requirements are properly addressed. The ideal candidate has an analytical mind that can identify small errors in large sets of data, coordinate and monitor multiple ongoing actions at once, and provide sound personnel and manpower advice to senior officials regarding organizational structures, position management, position descriptions, and recruiting methods and priorities. Typical assignments include: Serving as liaison between management and the OCCHCO HR Specialist, managing all aspects of personnel and recruiting actions. Monitoring, coordinating and tracking all on-going and projected actions and continuously updates leadership and staff. Monitoring, coordinating, and tracking all on-going and projected actions and continuously updates leadership and staff. Managing agency personnel automated information/data systems. Developing and providing briefings, data analyses and recommendations on a wide variety of complex personnel action issues and problems that affect the mission activity. Advising management in evaluating positions ensuring accuracy and consistency with established position management and classification principles, practices, policies, standards, and regulations. Collaborating with leadership and managers in the development of new methods, reorganizational and/or realignment structures, and management processes. 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. This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Appointments to CORE positions are typically between two years and four years in duration and may be renewed based upon workload needs and funding availability. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA. FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov. Requirements All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. To qualify for this Program Specialist (Personnel Liaison) position at the IC-11 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 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: Initiating, managing and/or tracking personnel actions through various database types; and Researching or analyzing laws, policies, and regulations related to Human Resources (to include but not limited to recruitment, staffing, payroll, and position management); and Communicating with internal and external stakeholders (to include but not limited to senior officials, managers, and supervisors) OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree. or LL.M. OR Combination of education and experience. To qualify for this Program Specialist (Personnel Liaison) position at the IC-12 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 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: Applying recruitment concepts, practices, and procedures to support managers effective methods of recruitment, staffing, and position management; and Researching, analyzing, and interpreting laws, policies, and regulations related to Human Resources (to include but not limited to recruitment, staffing, payroll, and position management); and Communicating with internal and external stakeholders (to include but not limited to senior officials, managers, and supervisors) 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 provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your application must show that you meet all requirements for this position. You may be found \"not qualified\" if you do not possess the minimum competencies required for the position. 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 five pages. If more than five pages are submitted, only the first five pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications. 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 occupational series, grade level, and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE)? 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

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Program Specialist (Personnel Liaison)

Hyattsville, MD

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