Summary

The Bureau of Reclamation Dam Safety and Infrastructure office is seeking interested internal candidates to be considered for a professional development opportunity with the Budget & Administrative Services Office!

Location - Lakewood, Colorado and Location Negotiable After Selection, United States

This opportunity is for a detail or temporary promotion NTE 120 days. More than one employee may be selected. It will begin on/about June 3, 2024, or depending on availability of selectees.

This job is open to

• Internal to an agency
  
  Current federal employees of this agency.

Clarification from the agency

Bureau of Reclamation Employees Only

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Duties

• Establishes goals, sets priorities, and assigns and reviews work and develops work standards and evaluates performance for multiple subordinates.
• Provides comprehensive oversight, direction, guidance, and instruction for directorate-wide services, including budget, writing and editing, information technology, and administrative assistant/secretarial functions.
• Develops and manages directorate-wide business practices, handbooks, and instructional guidance covering a broad array of topics (e.g., travel, information technology, work schedules) that guide and direct employee actions within authorities delegated to the Dam Safety and Infrastructure Director.
• Leads initiatives and teams composed of supervisory and non-supervisory staff to review and refine instructional guidance that ensures accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with higher-level requirements.
• Applies principles of continuous process improvement to refine and enhance existing processes.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

Candidates may apply to be considered for detail or temporary promotion. This is a temporary assignment and cannot be made permanent without further competition. To be eligible for a temporary promotion, applicants must meet the minimum qualifications requirements outlined below, to include Time-In-Grade restrictions. Applicants that do not meet the requirements for a temporary promotion may be detailed into this position with no change in pay grade.

Time-In-Grade: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees who have a break in service of less than 1 year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of 1 year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). There is no specialized experience or time-in-grade requirement for applicants interested in the detail opportunity.

Supervisory Endorsement: Current Bureau of Reclamation employees must supply proof of current supervisory endorsement at time of application to be considered for this opportunity.

Qualifications

Applicants currently at the GS-13 may apply to be detailed into this position.

Applicants currently at the GS-12 level may apply to be temporarily promoted into this position. Candidates applying for temporary promotion may qualify on the basis of Specialized Experience.

• Specialized Experience: The candidate's resume must describe specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-12 level in federal service demonstrating experience providing expert advice, broad program guidance, and facilitating the overall activities and functions in more than one of the following areas: budget, writing and editing, information technology, and administrative assistant/secretarial functions.

Education

This position does not allow for substituting education for experience.

Additional information

Multiple selectees may be selected from this Interest Announcement.

This is a detail or temporary promotion for up to 120 days. The opportunity will begin in or about June 3, 2024, or as soon as the selected applicant(s) are available. Employee(s) selected for this detail or temporary promotion will return to their position of record at the end of the detail.

Reclamation has determined the duties of this position are not suitable for telework and the selectee may only be allowed to telework with prior manager approval in situational cases. Candidates selected outside of the Denver area may work remotely from their duty station.

If applicable, all travel costs including per diem, airfare, meals, etc., associated with the detail will be paid by the DS&I. A reduced per diem rate of 55 percent is in effect for temporary duty extended travel of 30 days or more. A higher per diem rate must be justified by the Deputy Commissioner, Operations, or the Director or Regional Director for their employees on temporary duty extended travel, per Reclamation Manual Directives & Standards - FIN 13-01, Temporary Duty Extended (TDE) Travel.

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How You Will Be Evaluated

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

All Bureau of Reclamation employee application packages (see Required Documents) will be reviewed for eligibility and qualifications applicable to temporary assignments.

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• Required Documents
  
  As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have - whether you're a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you're eligible under their policies.
  
  Applicants are required to apply online via USA Jobs and submit all Required Documents appropriate, as outlined below:
  
  • Resume
  • Most recent SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action
  • Signed Reclamation Interest Announcement Notification Form including Supervisory Endorsement and Employee Statement of Interest
• How to Apply
  
  Applications (resume and supporting documentation) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on the closing date of this announcement 05/28/2024. To apply, click the blue APPLY ONLINE button at the top of the page.
  
  This vacancy is being announced through Bureau of Reclamation's Hiring System-USA Staffing. For more information, please visit: https://www.usbr.gov/hr/
  
  As part of the on-line application process, applicants may be required to submit supporting documents. Failure to submit the requested supporting documents may result in the applicant not being considered for this position.
  
  Do not submit photographs with the application package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.
  
  Agency contact information
  
  
  
  Nasya Villaruz
  
  Email
  
  nvillaruz@usbr.gov
  
  Address
  
  Dam Safety and Infrastructure
  
  Bureau of Reclamation
  
  Denver Federal Center
  
  P.O. BOX 25007
  
  Denver, CO 80225-0007
  
  US
  
  Next steps
  
  Upon successful submission of the application packet, applicants will receive a confirmation email from USAJOBS. If this email confirmation is not received by the applicant, the application has not yet been accepted by the system.
  
  After all application packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) will be reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualification requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualifications will be further evaluated on the information provided in the resume, application questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evaluated" section above. Best-qualified applicants will be referred to the selecting official. After making a tentative job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigation will be conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applications. Applicants should monitor their status for positions with the Bureau of Reclamation by regularly checking their public status notifications in the USAJOBS profile.
• Fair and Transparent
  
  The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
  
  
  • Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
  • Criminal history inquiries
  • Reasonable accommodation policy
  • Financial suitability
  • Selective Service
  • New employee probationary period
  • Signature and false statements
  • Privacy Act
  • Social security number request

Required Documents

Applicants are required to apply online via USA Jobs and submit all Required Documents appropriate, as outlined below:

• Resume
• Most recent SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action
• Signed Reclamation Interest Announcement Notification Form including Supervisory Endorsement and Employee Statement of Interest

How to Apply

Applications (resume and supporting documentation) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on the closing date of this announcement 05/28/2024. To apply, click the blue APPLY ONLINE button at the top of the page.

This vacancy is being announced through Bureau of Reclamation's Hiring System-USA Staffing. For more information, please visit: https://www.usbr.gov/hr/

As part of the on-line application process, applicants may be required to submit supporting documents. Failure to submit the requested supporting documents may result in the applicant not being considered for this position.

Do not submit photographs with the application package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.

Agency contact information



Nasya Villaruz

Email

nvillaruz@usbr.gov

Address

Dam Safety and Infrastructure

Bureau of Reclamation

Denver Federal Center

P.O. BOX 25007

Denver, CO 80225-0007

US

Next steps

Upon successful submission of the application packet, applicants will receive a confirmation email from USAJOBS. If this email confirmation is not received by the applicant, the application has not yet been accepted by the system.

After all application packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) will be reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualification requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualifications will be further evaluated on the information provided in the resume, application questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evaluated" section above. Best-qualified applicants will be referred to the selecting official. After making a tentative job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigation will be conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applications. Applicants should monitor their status for positions with the Bureau of Reclamation by regularly checking their public status notifications in the USAJOBS profile.

Fair & Transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.

• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
• Reasonable accommodation policy
• Criminal history inquiries
• Financial suitability
• Selective Service
• New employee probationary period
• Signature and false statements
• Privacy Act
• Social security number request