TRAVEL REQUIRED:

Occasional travel - Occasional travel may be required

RELOCATION AUTHORIZED:
Relocation expenses reimbursed No

KEY REQUIREMENTS:
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Meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days of closing date

U.S. Citizenship or National

Males born after 12/31/1959 must have registered with the Selective Service

Register with the Selective Service, if you are a male born after 12/31/59

1 year probationary period may be required.

If selected, you must meet the following conditions:

• Receive authorization from OPM on any job offer you receive, if you are or were (within the last 5 years) a Schedule A, Schedule C, or non-career SES political appointee
• Serve a one year probationary period, if required.
• Undergo and pass a background investigation (Tier 2 investigation level)
• Have your identity and work status eligibility verified if you are not a GSA employee. We will use the Department of Homeland Security's e-Verify system for this. Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of continued employment.
• Complete a financial disclosure report to verify that no conflict, or an appearance of conflict, exists between your financial interest and this position.

For each job on your resume, provide:

• the exact dates you held  each job (from month/year to month/year)
• number of hours per week you worked (if part time).    

If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume.

For a brief video on creating a Federal resume, click here. 

The annual GS-13 salary range starts at $96,970.00

If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected.  

To qualify, you must demonstrate that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service. 

Specialized experience for this position is defined as interpreting and applying human resources principles, practices, laws, and regulations in order to independently perform the full range of labor and employee relations work including providing consultation and assistance to management in the areas of poor performance, misconduct, adverse actions, agency and bargaining unit grievances, appeals, and negotiations with unions.

• Bargaining Unit status: None
• This vacancy announcement does not preclude filling this position by other means. Management also has the right not to fill the position.
• Travel, transportation, and relocation expenses are not authorized for this position. Any travel, transportation, and relocation expenses associated with reporting for duty in this position will be the responsibility of the successful applicant.
• All the information you provide will be verified by a review of work experience and/or education as shown on your application forms, by checking references and through other means, such as the interview process. Any exaggeration of your experience, false statements, or attempts to conceal information may be grounds for not hiring you, or firing you after you begin work.

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You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

You will be scored on the questions you answer during the application process, which will measure your possession of the following competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities.  Your responses to these questions must be supported by your resume or your score may be lowered.  

The Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's) required for this position are as follows:

• Skill in applying advanced labor and employee relations laws, regulations, principles, precedents, and policy.
• Skill in employee and labor management relations, and performance management activities to apply experimental theories and new developments to problems not susceptible to treatment by accepted methods, and to make decisions or recommendations significantly changing, interpreting, or developing important nationwide policies or programs.
• Knowledge of employee and labor management relations principles, practices, regulations and legislation.
• Knowledge of laws, Executive Orders, regulations, policies and concepts pertaining to negotiations of labor agreements, agreement implementation, third party procedures and other issues with union and management.
• Skill to solve particularly complex and sensitive problems and issues in employee and labor relations
• Skill in developing and conducting training, briefings, and communicating with a broad spectrum of internal and external personnel.
• Skill in the researching, interpreting and applying federal HR rules, regulations, policies and directives to a variety of employee and labor management relations issues.
• Ability to prepare complex written documents.
• Ability to work effectively as a team member, build team cohesiveness, reach consensus and achieve organizational and team goals.
• Skill in written and oral communications.
• Knowledge of HR information systems to develop requests for data related to ER/LR matters.

If you are eligible under Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan or GSA's Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP/CTAP), you must receive a score of 85 or higher to receive priority.

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Drug test required No