Duties

The individual selected for this position will:

Workforce Planning Initiatives and Guidance

• Administer the agency's position management program ensuring hiring practices are within position allocations and authorized funding. Employ established processes and position controls to maintain tracking and utilization of positions. Issue new position numbers.
• Provide advice and guidance on a variety of core policies, procedures and issues to the Chief Human Capital Officer and Deputy Human Capital Officer that impacts the agency's workforce. Serve as the primary advisor on areas such as organizational alignment and structure, resource allocation, corporate planning, goals and special complex assignments.
• Develop special studies, conduct analyses of management practices, human resources policies and organizational structures with the purpose of evaluating and improving the overall effectiveness of the agency's workforce management planning and human capital programs.
• Determine data to be analyzed. Prepare statistical or narrative reports of findings with appropriate recommendations.
• Perform workforce planning assessments to include retirement projections, retention rates, demographics, available labor pools and a variety of factors that affect succession planning, availability and retention of the agency's workforce.
• Create, update and maintain organizational charts.
• Serve as a liaison in conjunction with management officials in leading the design and development of new organizational structures or structuring of positions to address the needs of the organization.
• Provide support in the design, development and implementation of workforce and succession planning communications and outreach strategies in facilitating collaborative efforts between HCMD and jurisdictions' management officials. Support human capital initiatives.

Data Analytics Projects and Program Reporting

• Coordinate data and reporting and data request responses received from internal and external sources including Congressional Oversight.
• Prepare position papers, reports or documents involving issues related to human capital and strategic planning
• Participate in strategic planning with senior managers in developing HCMD annual performance goals and objectives.
• Research emerging technology, trends and guidelines on data analytic platforms and data dissemination.
• Work with the Dashboard Analytics Team to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain HCMD dashboards to maximize capabilities to expand reporting initiatives.

Special Projects and Liaison Activities

• Provide advice on agency organizational, strategic changes and internal human capital business process improvements to improve the effectiveness of the agency's human resources operations and functions.
• Perform a wide range of high-level and executive-level assignments, typically complex, sensitive and AOC-wide in scope.
• Draft presentations, briefings, speeches, talking points for the CHCO and Deputy CHCO in preparation for discussions, meetings, conferences, town hall meetings or other events.

Human Resources Information Systems

• Provide support to all HCMD branches in managing HRIS platforms and other application to maximize the most beneficial execution approaches related to implementation activities.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

To be employed by the Architect of the Capitol in a paid position, an individual must meet
one of the categories below:

• A citizen of the United States;
• A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B);
• A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible;
• A person who owes allegiance to the United States (nationals of American Samoa, Swains Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and nationals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C. 1408); or
• A person who is currently an officer or employee of the Government of the United States.

You resume and question responses must demonstrate job-related elements.

You must meet the definition of specialized experience.

Qualifications

You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications .

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

Candidates for the GS-14 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized experience for this position includes:

• Experience with cross-functional communication efforts and their relationship in promoting the mission and overall objectives of the agency's workforce, strategic planning, work force planning and human capital programs.
• Experience applying analytical and evaluative skills to determine the actions necessary to support a variety of organizational plans, programs, issues and human capital initiatives.
• Experience with oral communication techniques sufficient to present findings, respond to requests, provide technical advice, deliver briefings, and provide recommendations.
• Experience with written communication techniques to prepare executive briefings, managerial reports, project papers, policies and directives.
• Experience reviewing and analyzing program data and preparing analytical statistical reports; gathering information, identifying, and analyzing issues/concerns, and developing recommendations to resolve problems.
• Experience establishing and implementing metrics for measuring program and organizational performance, including data collection.
• Ability to analyze findings, issues, or problems with widespread impact to programs and functions of the agency.
• Experience planning and conducting a variety of comprehensive, complex and sensitive projects and studies.
• Assessing program effectiveness or the improvement of program and management processes and systems or issues that affect critical aspects of programs.
• Experience generating, designing or developing new programs, procedures or policies focused toward accomplishing the goals and objectives of the agency.

Education

Although, there is no education requirement for this position, a minimum of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is desirable.

Additional information

Welcome Veterans. The Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) gives veterans' preference rights in the legislative branch to certain veterans as applied by the Congressional Accountability Act. Veterans' preference is applied on this vacancy announcement. If you are a veteran and have been separated under honorable conditions, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility; SF-15, if applicable; and Department of Veterans Affairs documentation of disability, if applicable. For more information, please visit http://www.opm.gov/veterans/html/vetguide.asp#6 .

If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System. If you are exempt from registration under Selective Service Law, you must provide appropriate proof of exemption. Please visit the Selective Service System website for more information.

DRUG TESTING: The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is a Drug Free Workplace. As part of the AOC's suitability assessment, a candidate tentatively selected for a position who is not currently an AOC employee is required to submit to screening for illegal drug use. Satisfactory completion of a drug test is a condition of employment with the Agency. A candidate must test negative prior to being eligible for appointment into a position. We will schedule, provide and cover the cost for the drug test.

The selectee(s) under the vacancy announcement for this position is subject to a criminal record check by the U.S. Capitol Police and satisfactory adjudication to be eligible for employment at the Architect of the Capitol.

The Architect of the Capitol is an E-VERIFY Participant. E-VERIFY is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employee's Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to data from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration records to confirm employment authorization in the United States. If you are selected for this position, the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the DHS Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-VERIFY" electronic system. For more information on E-Verify, please visit http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1185221678150.shtm

The Architect of the Capitol is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information and/or disability.

This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Moving expenses are not authorized.

Relocation expenses are not authorized.

Probationary Period - A newly appointed selectee is subject to the completion of a one-year trial/probationary period, regardless of whether or not a trial/probationary period has been completed previously with the Architect of the Capitol or another Federal agency.

This vacancy announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies in any of the jurisdictions of the Architect of the Capitol.

All application materials become the property of the Architect of the Capitol.