- Coordinate classification actions that may have organization-wide impact with leadership and program managers and explain in detail the rationale for classification findings.
- Serve as an advisor to multiple management units for activities involving classification of positions.
- Provide authoritative advice on complex classification adjudications; interpret position management principles, practices, and criteria for application to organizational needs.
- Collaborate with leadership across the organization and is responsible for building and maintaining a rapport to effectively communicate findings.
- Provide or arrange for specific technical training necessary for accomplishment of individual and team tasks.
- Evaluate, present findings, and propose recommendations to managers while considering classification implications, alignment with other organizations, reduction in overhead costs, logical workflow, or recognized efficiencies.
Conditions of Employment
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
- Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
- This position is remote eligible. You will be required to sign a remote work agreement and be responsible for ensuring the approved remote worksite has adequate internet service, connectivity, and other general utility costs at your own expense.
In order to qualify, you must meet the
Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements.
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.
Note on Experience: Your resume must clearly document the following for each block of work experience; the beginning day, month and year the work assignment started and ended; the hours worked per week; position title, and series and grade if applicable; and description of duties performed. This information must be provided for each permanent, temporary or seasonal appointment/work assignment or volunteer work and should be clearly documented as a separate block of time. Incomplete, inaccurate or conflicting work history may not be credited for qualifications purposes. This can result in an applicant not being considered for the position.
Specialized Experience Requirement
Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the Federal Service.
Specialized experience is defined as three or more of the following: Applying classification guidance, appeal decisions, and classification standards on a regular basis to classify Federal civil service positions for an organization or agency; and/or Providing advisory services and policy interpretation for a variety of position management and position classification issues in difficult or controversial situations; and/or Writing or editing position descriptions, writing evaluation statements, and providing desk audit results; and/or Mentoring co-workers in basic classification principles and managing work assignments for oneself and others.
TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
To receive consideration for this position, you must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Additional information
PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy is limited to the first 150 applications received and will close at 11:59pm ET on the closing date or at 11:59pm ET on the day we receive the 150th application, whichever comes first.
These positions are eligible for remote work arrangements. Remote work employees are expected to work at an approved remote worksite, typically the employee's residence, on a regular and continuing basis. Remote worksite must be located within commuting distance of a Forest Service office.
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Veterans who are preference eligible or who have been separated from the armed forces under honorable conditions after three years or more of continuous active service are eligible for consideration under the
Farm Service Agency (FSA) County Employees: Permanent County employees without prior Federal tenure who are selected for a Civil Service position under Public Law 105-277 will be given a career-conditional appointment and must serve a 1-year probationary period.
For more information on applying under special hiring authorities such as 30 percent disabled veterans, certain military spouses, Schedule A Disabled, etc., explore the different Hiring Paths on the
This position may be eligible to telework up to four days per week, based upon the duties of the position. This position may also be eligible for flexible work arrangements as determined by agency policy and any applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Positions filled from this announcement may be a bargaining or a non-bargaining unit position represented by either NFFE, AFGE or NAGE.
We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies.
- A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
