Workforce Development Specialist

Duties

The Department of Labor defines as a combination of education and training services that prepares individuals for work and helps them improve their prospects in the labor market. These services may include job search assistance, career counseling, occupational skill training, classroom training, or on-the-job training.

As a Workforce Development Specialist in the

• Interprets Federal requirements and procedures to assist grant recipients in complying with regulations and guidance.
• Leads the review process of program plans to enhance the national office's understanding of grant recipients' plans to deliver services as well as reviews monitoring reports and finding reports to identify trends, gaps, and inconsistencies.
• Engages in ongoing communication with grant recipients, agency staff, and regional staff to resolve grants issues during the grant lifecycle.
• Collects, organizes, and interprets data to ensure the integrity of the workforce system and performance accountability.
• Engages in written communications sufficient to advise and consult with a variety of customers, present findings and recommendations, negotiate agreements, and secure cooperation.
• Effectively communicates orally to perform assigned projects and assignments.
• Leads the development of responses to program related questions received from grant recipients and other public inquiries.
• Provides technical assistance to grant recipients to assist them in accomplishing the goals and objectives of the grant as well as complying with regulations and guidance by applying problem-solving techniques and identifying new approaches and alternatives to address current or anticipated problems that are extremely complex.
• Provides technical assistance to grant recipients on a full range of areas, including but not limited to grant compliance, subject matter areas related to program public law, regulations, guidance, and performance reporting.
• Establishes, maintains and improves interpersonal working relationships with employees, supervisors, managers of ETA, other Federal agencies, other levels of government, organized labor, special interest groups, and organizations in private enterprise.
  
  
  

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
  
  
  

Qualifications

You must meet the Specialized Experience to qualify for the Workforce Development Specialist as described below.

Specialized Experience: For GS-12: Applicants must possess 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the next lower grade level or GS-11 grade level in the Federal Service

Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

Qualifying Specialized Experience includes ALL of the following:

Experience providing technical assistance and training to grant recipients who administer education, housing, or employment programs for farmworkers or other individuals from underserved communities (e.g., immigrants, individuals with disabilities, people of color, and individuals who live in rural communities, persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality, etc.) . (Technical assistance and training consist of planning, development, and delivery of activities to achieve learning objectives, resolve problems, and support grant recipients to realize the intent of a program.)

If you have the above-mentioned experience, it must be clearly documented in your resume. HR cannot make any assumptions about specialized experience based on job titles.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

This position is inside the bargaining unit. If the duty location is within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the position will be included in the Local 12, AFGE bargaining unit. If the duty location is outside the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the position will be included in the NCFLL bargaining unit.

The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to protect the welfare of workers and job seekers, improve working conditions, expand high-quality employment opportunities, and assure work-related benefits and rights for all workers. As such, the Department is committed to fostering a workplace and workforce that promote equal employment opportunity, reflects the diversity of the people we seek to serve, and models a culture of respect, equity, inclusion, and accessibility where every employee feels heard, supported, and empowered.

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As a condition of employment, all personnel must undergo a background investigation for access to DOL facilities, systems, information and/or classified materials before they can enter on duty:

Based on agency needs, additional positions may be filled using this vacancy.

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