Maritime Administration is Hiring an Equal Opportunity Specialist Near Washington, DC

Qualifications:

To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must meet the specialized experience requirements for the grade at which you are requesting consideration.

To qualify for the GS-12 on Experience, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-11 it must include:

• Experience providing assistance with external civil rights policies and programs for the agency, and processing external discrimination complaints.
• Experience providing guidance to internal and external stakeholders in ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, ADA, Age or applicable regulatory.

To qualify for the GS-13 on Experience, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-12 it must include:

• Experience implementing and providing assistance with external civil rights policies and programs for the agency.
• Experience providing guidance to internal and external stakeholders in TWO OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, ADA, Age or applicable regulatory.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:

• Knowledge of Equal Opportunity laws, principles, regulations, policies, and relevant decisions sufficient to recognize and assist management officials in resolving systemic Equal Opportunity problems and provide technical recommendations for resolution of alleged discrimination.
• Skill in fact finding and analysis to determine the meaning, relevancy, veracity, and importance of a large body of complex and interrelated facts, weigh evidence, make conclusions, and recommend decisions.
• Ability to write in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience.

For all types of consideration, 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 can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.  You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience

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Other applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Responsibilities:

The Equal Opportunity Specialist:

• Investigates and/or conciliates remedies involving novel and highly complex and significant issues that are likely to result in major precedent decisions, involve powerful competing interests that strongly contest the case, and potentially involve remedies that materially affect the interests of the parties to the complaint.
• Resolves major fundamental issues arising from contract compliance reviews through enforcement of decisions and negotiations with contractors or other recipients of Federal funds when the issues are novel, broad, and highly complex. The issues affect the vital interests of the parties and are strongly contested.
• Investigates and negotiates settlement/voluntary compliance agreements of important, sensitive, highly difficult, and complex charges of discriminatory employment practices based on age, race, color, religion, disability, sex, and national origin or of Equal Pay Act violations filed with the agency. (Cases are highly difficult and important because they involve problems and issues for which precedents are not clear or are in conflict.)
• Consults with companies/grantees on preparation of compliance plans, provides advice to specialists involved in educational activities and technical assistance to labor unions, trade associations, and State and local agencies engaged in eliminating unlawful practices.
• Prepares comprehensive and well-documented reports of investigative findings, setting forth evidence and rationale for own recommendations.
• Reviews documents pertaining to personnel practices and policies.
• Drafts request for information, when required, to obtain documents, records, or testimony.
  Provides guidance to lower graded specialists in all aspects of investigations and conciliations.

The ideal candidate would have experience with regulatory compliance activities (pre and post award reviews, etc.) and complaint investigations in the following: Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, ADA, Age or other applicable regulator.

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