SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER (TALENT MANAGEMENT)

Summary

Position is located in the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, Administrative Operations, Office of Human Resources. Serving as a Senior Program Manager (GS-15), you will partner with internal districts and program areas to cultivate strategic relationships with academia, military, government, member organizations and the business community. You will lead cross-sector modernization and negotiate enterprise talent acquisition strategies to secure a robust public health workforce pipeline.

Duties

• Formulate an enterprise talent management strategy to support current and evolving agency public health missions.
• Oversee the enterprise lifecycle of talent management to ensure operational excellence across the organization.
• Review agency hiring goals on a regular basis with senior leadership to maintain strategic alignment.
• Architect new and enhanced organizational talent management initiatives essential to future agency operations.
• Align workforce projections with food safety, scientific, and emergency response readiness priorities.
• Oversee workforce forecasting initiatives that utilize predictive analytics to identify future talent shortages.
• Evaluate complex data sets to identify emerging trends affecting recruitment, retention, and workforce readiness.
• Advise USDA OHRM regarding classification impacts and government-wide talent initiatives.
• Cultivate and maintain complex multi-sector relationships with federal, state, local, tribal, and foreign governments.
• Negotiate enterprise talent strategies and secure agreements with professional organizations, the scientific community, military, and academic institutions.
• Lead the enterprise implementation of talent management policy mandates and federal regulation changes.
• Identify, track, and mitigate enterprise-wide hiring risks, including critical vacancy gaps and high-volume surge hiring demands.
• Identify and mitigate workforce stability risks, including impending retirement cliffs and mission-critical occupational shortages.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. For the GS-15: Specialized experience: Your resume must show one year of experience equivalent to the GS-14 grade in the federal service, or its equivalent, obtained in either the private or public sector performing the following type of work and/or tasks. ***Your experience must be described in as much detail, within your resume, as possible to show that you meet all the experience requirements. Failure to do so MAY result in not being qualified for the position. Aligning corporate or federal human capital plans with multi-year organizational goals, changing agency missions, or public health priorities. Partnering with senior leadership to provide sound recommendations on succession plans, talent pipelines, or risk-mitigation frameworks to handle waves of retirements or critical skill shortages. Implementing corporate HR policies or federal personnel regulations (such as Title 5, Title 38, OPM mandates) across an entire organization or agency. Evaluating recruitment programs using qualitative feedback and quantitative data based upon workforce analytics and labor market intelligence to track, diagnose and correct systemic recruitment or retention issues. Managing recruitment/hiring for a large organizational footprint, including modeling or forecasting future headcount, budget, and skill requirements. Leading multidisciplinary teams to execute high-volume surge hiring demands. 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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

There is no education substitute for this grade level. How You Will Be Evaluated

Applications will be evaluated in accordance with Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Delegated Examining Procedures and USDA policy using category rating. Applicants who meet basic minimum qualifications will be placed in one of two or three categories: Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified. Within these categories, applicants eligible for Veterans' Preference will receive selection priority over non-veterans. Category placement will be determined based on applicants' quality of experience and the extent to which they possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) or competencies: Strategic Thinking Influencing/Negotiating Partnering Organizational Awareness Problem Solving Creative Thinking Human Capital Management Data Analysis Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or application questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration. Cheating on an assessment may also result in your removal from consideration. Your application, including the online Assessment Questionnaire, will be reviewed to determine if you meet (a) minimum qualification requirements and (b) your resume supports the answers provided to the job-specific questions. Your resume must clearly support your responses to all the questions addressing experience and education relevant to this position. Those determined to be in the best qualified category will be referred to the selecting official for consideration. NOTE: If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your score may be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities, or you may be found ineligible. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating. Providing inaccurate information on Federal documents could be grounds for non-selection or disciplinary action up to and including removal from the Federal service. Clicking the link below will present a preview of the application form; i.e. the online questionnaire. The application form link below will only provide a preview and does not initiate the application process. To initiate the online application process, click the "Apply" button to the right. To preview the application questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13065715 Other Information

Selectees may be eligible for Creditable Service for Annual Leave Accrual (CSALA). This announcement may be used to fill additional like vacancies should any occur in the announced duty location. Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), Reemployment Priority List (RPL), or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): Visit the OPM website for information on how to apply as a CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP eligible. To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/RPL/ICTAP candidates must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors. CTAP/ICTAP candidates must be rated and determined to be well qualified (or above) based on an evaluation of the competencies listed in the How You Will Be Evaluated section. When assessed through a score-based category rating method, CTAP/ICTAP applicants must receive a rating of at least 85 out of a possible 100. Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online application. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudication decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for Online Assessments.