Human Resources Specialist (ER/LR)

Duties

• Provides technical guidance, advice and counseling to management officials and supervisors to address issues with workforce-related conduct and performance.
• Develops strategies to respond to employee-related issues.
• Prepares appropriate agency responses to employee relations matters.
• Provides consultation on associated program areas, such as reasonable accommodation and leave management.
• Delivers training for management and employees on a variety of employee relations topics.
• Prepares a variety of correspondence on behalf of the agency to address complex employee relations matters including, disciplinary and adverse actions, settlement agreements, and congressional correspondence.
• Serves as a point of contact for an integrated healthcare network, ensuring strict adherence to all contractual and regulatory timeframes.
• Advise management officials at all levels of the network, including senior leaders, about appropriate disciplinary or other corrective techniques in response to a range of conduct and performance problems.
• Explains rules and procedures to employees and management to help them understand rights and obligations while maintaining and encouraging objectivity in situations that may be charged with emotion and involve assumptions.
• Resolves disputes and evaluates events and/or identifies aggravating or mitigating factors relevant to the case.
• Conducts and Advises on ER matters, all proposed adverse actions, coordination and oversight, including OAWP, DAB, AIB, fact findings, grievance examiner, state licensure reviews, suitability, Drug Free Workplace, Workplace Violence Prevention Program, and third-party hearing representation.
• Must also apply a high degree of insight and technical competence to recognize and accomplish management objectives without sacrificing fundamental principles.
• Must have the stature, foresight, maturity, and ability to negotiate and reach amicable solutions to complex and controversial problems.
• Provides services to an integrated healthcare network, ensuring strict adherence to all contractual and regulatory timeframes.
• Develops management strategies to respond to labor issues.
• Offers technical guidance, information and assistance to management and senior leadership officials on sensitive, serious, and controversial labor relations issues regarding employees in a wide variety of administrative and clinical occupations with substantial differences in working conditions, entitlement, and occupational practices and policies.
• Provides technical and consultative guidance, including actions of a disciplinary or adverse nature, grievances, demands to bargain, impasse proceedings, local bargaining, unfair labor practices, performance management and recognition, employee counseling, appeals, complaints, drug testing and related functions.
• Manages and provides interpretation of policies, procedures, and collective bargaining agreements.
• Analyzes changes to regulations and policies to determine the impact on the labor relations program and determines the need for impact and implementation or full bargaining at the appropriate level (local, network, or national bargaining).
• Represents management at arbitrations and in situations involving proceedings before other third-parties, as appropriate.

Qualifications

• To qualify for this position at the GS-12 level, you must meet one of the following listed Criteria:
• Criteria 1: Graduate Degree and Specialized Experience: Successful completion of a graduate level degree or higher and three years of progressive specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level. Such experience may be gained in administrative, professional, technical or other responsible work positions in the public (i.e., Government or military) or private sector. Qualifying specialized experience includes: Provides consultation on associated program areas, advises management officials at all levels of the network, including senior leaders, about appropriate disciplinary or other corrective techniques in response to a range of conduct and performance problems, resolves disputes and evaluates events and/or identifies aggravating or mitigating factors relevant to the case.
• Criteria 2: Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in federal service that demonstrates HR management knowledge, concepts and principles and the performance of work in one or more of the HR specialty areas. Such experience may be gained in administrative, professional, technical or other responsible work positions in the public (i.e., Government or military) or private sector. Qualifying specialized experience includes: Provides technical guidance, advice and counseling to management officials and supervisors to address issues with workforce-related conduct and performance, resolves disputes and evaluates events and/or identifies aggravating or mitigating factors relevant to the case, conducts and Advises on ER matters, all proposed adverse actions, coordination and oversight, including OAWP, DAB, AIB, fact findings, grievance examiner, state licensure reviews, suitability, Drug Free Workplace, Workplace Violence Prevention Program, and third-party hearing representation.

Location Clarification

This job is open to candidates who reside and/or intend to reside within a 50-mile radius of a facility located within the VISN 21 catchment area. This area includes Northern California (San Francisco - Palo Alto - Martinez - Mather and Mountain View) and/or Nevada (Reno and Las Vegas). Candidates will be required to physically report to a VA facility within these locations which will be specified after selection.

Total Rewards

• HR Specialist Total Rewards Duties for this position to include but no limited to the following:
• Employee Relations
• Labor Relations

Work Schedule

• Full Time
• Monday - Friday
• 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. PST

Telework

• Ad hoc telework authorized

Virtual

• This is not a virtual position