Talent Acquisition Director

Duties
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• Serves as the team lead and an active team member for the Human Resources Talent Acquisition team, conducting recruitment and staffing actions on behalf of DAU in systems that include but are not limited to USAStaffing, other Defense Civilian Personnel Systems of Record, and internal DAU Business Systems.
• Provides expert advice and authoritative information to top management and program directors throughout the enterprise on a wide variety of highly complex, controversial, and sensitive recruitment and placement problems and issues.
• Develops, initiates, and directs human resources program strategic planning activities; identifies long and short-term objectives, and formulates enterprise-wide recruitment and placement program strategies for senior leaders.
• Evaluates new or modified legislation and regulations to determine impact on short- and long-term recruitment and placement policies and program initiatives. Monitors legislation and other proposals affecting Federal recruitment and placement programs and develops and advocates the agency position.
• Leads planning, drafting and finalizing of plans, instructions, guides, and other substantive material for use by management officials and operating human resources offices in administering recruitment and placement programs.
• Serves as a lead or principal team member in planning, organizing, and directing team efforts in conducting major evaluations of agency recruitment and placement operations and other comparable studies. Research, identifies, and develops criteria and procedures to conduct program evaluations and to measure program accomplishment.
• Create sourcing and recruiting strategies to hire highly sought-after talent establishing relationships with candidates through social networking, media channels, professional organization and industry relationships, internal and external referrals, and other means.
• Guide university-wide procedures with respect to recruitment and staffing initiatives, classifying positions and establishing a comprehensive Selection Process Handbook with associated coaching or training for managers.
• Research and explore methods for screening and assessing candidates to include Customer Relationship Management platforms, alternative or new assessment tools, and other industry benchmarking.

Requirements
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Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Males must be registered for Selective Service, see Legal and Regulatory Guidance, please go to http://www.sss.gov for more information
• This position is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program
• Incumbent may be required to obtain and maintain an appropriate security clearance.
• You may be required to serve a one (1) year probationary period.
• The incumbent of this position may be required to work overtime, irregular shifts, and/or on the weekend.
• Work may require travel away from the normal duty station on commercial aircraft.

Qualifications

You must have specialized experience directly relating to the specific duties of the position, and demonstrate that you have the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully with the experience that demonstrated a practical knowledge in:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower broadband, NH-03, equivalent to the next lower grade, GS-13 or equivalent, in other personnel pay systems including experience as follows:

1) Substantial knowledge, skill and experience addressing, a wide range of federal recruitment and placement, strategic workforce planning and execution issues associated with title 5 competitive service and/or title 10 excepted service civilian personnel authorities.
2) Substantial knowledge, skill, and experience researching federal statutory and regulatory civilian personnel administration regulations and operations and the interrelationships with general employment law topics to be used to propose personnel policy.
3) Knowledge of and ability to develop creative and innovative methods to support the overall talent acquisition strategy for an agency.

If applicable, in addition to the above qualifications, the following as been determined to be a Quality Ranking Factor. Applicants who possess QRFs are considered to be Well-Qualified.

1) Demonstrated capability to establish strategic partnerships with senior leaders within the organization.

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that 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 substitution of education for experience at this grade level.

Additional information

The intent is to use AcqDemo Direct Hiring Authority to fill this position to fill from internal to DOD.

This position is in the Competitive Service. For more information regarding Competitive Service employment please visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/help/working-in-government/service/

DAU participates in e-Verify with the Department of Homeland Security and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

If selected for this position, you must be able to start employment within 30 days of acceptance (unless otherwise approved by DAU).

DAU requires reporting to the assigned duty location during each pay period. DAU supports part-time telework, but remote work and full-time telework are not offered.

Duty location determined upon selection.

Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have direct deposit.

Temporary and Term Appointments: If you are selected for a temporary or term position in the competitive service, your appointment may be extended to the maximum period allowed by law without further competition

If applicable, AcqDemo Expanded Probationary Period for Supervisors and Managers: An additional supervisory probationary period of one year may be required when an employee is officially assigned to a different supervisory position that constitutes a major change in supervisory responsibilities from any previously held supervisory position, (e.g., moving from a journeyman level supervisory acquisition position to a Critical Acquisition Position or moving from a Critical Acquisition Position to a Key Leadership Position).

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP eligible click here . To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated well qualified or above for this position. You must submit a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty location.

Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click here for more information.

Priority Placement Program (PPP) Military Spouse Preference (MSP) eligible candidates will receive priority consideration at the highest grade level for which they have applied and been determined best qualified up to and including the full performance level.

PPP Application Based Preference Eligibles (Military Reserve and National Guard technicians, Military Reserve and National Guard technicians receiving disability retirement, and Retained Grade employees) will receive priority consideration at the full performance level only.

Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible: Military Spouse Preference applicants, if determined best qualified, must be selected at the full performance level and placed at the full performance level. You must include a completed copy of the Military Spouse PPP Self-Certification Checklist dated within 30 days along with the documents identified on the checklist to verify your eligibility for Military Spouse Preference. Click here to obtain a copy of the Military Spouse PPP Self-Certification Checklist.