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Summary The Director, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for managing, directing, and advising agency leadership, organizational components, and other senior officials on matters related to equal employment opportunity (EEO), reasonable accommodations, harassment prevention, and discrimination complaints. Responsibilities As the Director, Office of Civil Rights, your specific responsibilities include: Serves as the principal advisor to OPM leadership on all aspects of EEO, dispute resolution, operations, policy, and procedures. Partners with internal and external stakeholders to foster a safe, welcoming, and harassment-free environment for customers and employees across OPM. Leads a staff of subordinate managers and supervisors; establishes and monitors organizational goals and periodically evaluates and makes appropriate adjustments to such goals; and exercises high level policymaking and policy-determining authority. Serves as the head of OPM\'s Equal Employment Opportunity Program, managing a team that processes formal and informal EEO discrimination complaints, including counseling, case management, administrative functions, and investigations; reasonable accommodation requests; and final agency decisions. Administers the Department-wide discrimination and complaint process in a manner that ensures prompt, equitable, and efficient processing of complaints. Provides confidential, informal, independent, and impartial assistance to individuals through alternate dispute resolution and problem-solving methods. Oversees OPM\'s intake and processing of discrimination complaints. Oversees OPM\'s harassment prevention program, with the goal of eliminating harassment, promoting a culture of trust and respect, and ensuring the safety of all who conduct business with the agency. Develops and maintains agency-wide Reasonable Accommodation and Personal Assistance Services policies, procedures, and systems. Requirements Conditions of Employment Must be a U.S. Citizen or National Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation This position is not eligible for inclusion in a bargaining unit All federal employees are required to have direct deposit Selected candidate will be subject to a one-year probationary period in the Senior Executive Service unless required probationary period has previously been served. Selected candidate is required to file a SF-278, Public Financial Disclosure Report within 30 days after his/her appointment, in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. This is not a remote position, selectee will be required to report to the duty station on a regular basis. Telework may be authorized. Qualifications The Executive Core Qualifications are required for entry to the Senior Executive Service; to meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show in your resume that you possess the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and two Technical Qualifications (TQs), listed below. Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs): ECQ 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. ECQ 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. ECQ 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. ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. ECQ 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. Technical Qualifications (TQs): Expert knowledge of and experience successfully leading, directing, and managing a wide range of EEO, resolution management (such as Alternative Dispute Resolution or Ombuds function), reasonable accommodation, cultural inclusion, and/or harassment prevention services for a Federal agency. Demonstrated ability managing the transformation of a large organization to meet mission needs, improve operations, deliver high quality services, and influence agency-wide culture and values. Inherent in this qualification is the demonstrated ability to develop collaborative strategies to address challenges, manage multiple facets of complex organizational change, and serve as a champion to employees during the change process. Additional information on the Executive Core Qualifications is available at SES ECQs Please ensure that your resume emphasizes your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of programs managed and your program accomplishments, including the results of your actions relating to the qualifications described above. An example of a resume showing possession of the ECQs is available at SES Resume Please DO NOT submit separate statements addressing the ECQs/TQs as they will not be considered. Applicants must meet all of the qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Education This job does not have an education qualification requirement. Additional Information Recruitment or relocation incentives may be authorized. Relocation expenses (Permanent Change in Station costs) will not be paid. Actual salary for Senior Executive Service positions may vary depending on the scope and the complexity of the qualifications and current compensation of the selectee. Veteran\'s Preference does not apply to the Senior Executive Service.
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Summary This position is located in Crisis Management and Strategy within the Office of the Secretary, Executive Secretariat Operations Center (S/ES-O). The Operations Center is open 24/7 and serves as the Secretary\'s and the Department\'s communications/crisis management center. As Crisis Management Support (CMS), you will monitor and analyze global events and incidents to anticipate potential hot spots and recommend actions to reduce risk and prepare our diplomatic missions to face any crisis. Responsibilities Applies new analytical developments and methodologies, and research to findings to broad public policy issues to analyze political, economic, and other reporting from a wide variety of sources that include U.S. missions. Prepares and delivers written and oral briefings to senior officials and facilitates the flow of information on late-breaking issues within the Department, both domestically and abroad, and between the Department and the rest of the interagency. Serves as the initial point of contact for all incoming requests to the Operations Center (Ops) and uses knowledge of the Department and interagency to appropriately triage and, when necessary, redirect these requests. Exercises knowledge of the Department’s various bureaus and offices’ equities to review and distribute all interagency materials for Principal and Deputies committee meetings. Serves as the Ops Watch’s representative to a Department Task Force, when convened, and coordinates the flow of information between the Watch and the Task Force. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. If you are qualifying based on education OR if there are mandatory education requirements listed below, you MUST submit a copy of your college transcript with your application. NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F. Applicants must have the required experience or education as described below and meet any selective factors, when specified. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: Have a bachelor\'s or graduate degree from an accredited college or university in international law, international relations, political science, economics, history, sociology, geography, social or cultural anthropology, law, statistics, or in the humanities; OR Have a bachelor\'s or graduate degree from an accredited college or university that included a combination of courses, with at least 24 semester hours in international law and international relations, political science, economics, history, sociology, geography, social or cultural anthropology, law, statistics, or in the humanities; OR Have 12 semester hours in one of the above disciplines and 12 semester hours in statistics / quantitative methods. OR Have a combination of education and experience where your coursework was equivalent to a major, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours, (as shown above), PLUS appropriate relevant experience OR additional education. OR Have completed at least 4 years of appropriate experience in one OR more of the fields listed above in work associated with international organizations, problems, or other aspects of foreign affairs. (NOTE: qualifying work experience may have been gained through residence, study, teaching, business or commercial activities, military service, newspaper work, military or civil government activities, missionary or international relief work, or other experience in foreign countries.) Note: If you are qualifying based on education, you MUST submit transcripts as verification of educational requirement by the closing date of this announcement. If you fail to provide requested information, or the information you submit is insufficient to verify your eligibility, you WILL lose consideration for this position. IN ADDITION to the basic requirements, this position requires one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience monitoring global political, national security, international affairs, geographic or military developments; Experience preparing written policy recommendations from foreign policy analysis; AND Experience serving in an advisory capacity to senior level leadership on complex, sensitive, and controversial matters. Education See the qualifications section of this vacancy announcement for education requirements. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. For a list of accredited organizations recognized as specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials, visit: www.naces.org/members.php. Additional Information For reasonable accommodation at the U.S. Department of State, please contact the Office of Accessibility and Accommodations at (202) 663-3474 or OAA@state.gov. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. If eligible, applicants to this announcement may be referred to other similar positions in other Bureaus/Offices in the Department for up to 240 days. Telework eligibility and security clearance requirements may vary for such similar positions.
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