Equal Employment Manager

Equal Employment Manager

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Los Angeles, California

Salary Range: $124085 - $161313 Per Year

Job Summary: The Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System is recruiting for a Equal Employment Manager (EEO) in Service under the Office of the Medical Center Director. The incumbent serves as the principal advisor in the area of Equal Employment Opportunity. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized for highly qualified applicants

Major Duties:

• Recruit and hire subordinate staff members in line with merit staffing procedures and equal employment opportunity guidelines. Integrate activities of the office into the overall programs and takes actions, as necessary, to make the office a positive contributor to accomplishment of the VA's mission. Responsible for equal opportunity for all employees supervised, ensuring fair and equitable practices in the selection of employees for training, promotions, awards and recognition, and for other career development opportunities. Develop and conduct facility-wide analyses of EEO-related issues and programs, including reviewing systemic problems within the facility Develop strategies for handling discrimination complaints; investigate discriminatory practices; develop and implement EEO program policies to address and resolve discriminatory barriers for various SEPs. Responsible for developing, planning, directing, coordinating, reviewing, monitoring, evaluating and updating EEO program activities Develop facility-level EEO procedures and policies and assess policies for effectiveness. Serve as technical advisor to the facility's EEO Committee and establishes and implements an effective recognition program for those who make a significant contribution to members of the Facility's Federal EEO Committee. Serve to improve the representation of minorities, the disabled, and women, and other Special Emphasis groups in the workforce; and reduces or eliminates potential complaints of discrimination. Develop an ADR Program, which is any procedure or combinat10n or procedures voluntarily used to resolve issues in controversy without the need to resort to litigation. Conduct mandated "New Employee Orientation of the Prevention of Workplace Harassment" for all newly hired employees and ensures that all employees receive refresher training on "Prevention of Workplace Harassment" every 2 years. Arranges for the proper training and provides leadership and administrative supervision to equal employment opportunity advisory committees, equal employment opportunity technical assistants, and other specifically designated equal employment opportunity staff personnel involved in the planning, counseling, investigative, personnel, and legal aspects of equal employment opportunity. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm Compressed/Flexible: not authorized Telework: This position is not authorized for telework. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Equal Employment Manager/PD13208O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized for highly qualified applicants

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/15/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. GS-13 You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: equal employment, regulations, resolve complex problems, regulations, advise Federal managers, sensitive equal employment opportunity, EEO Laws, policies, affirmative action plans, and GEMS. (must be in resume) You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and Management Employee Relations Labor Relations Managing Diverse Workforce 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; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The regular and recurring work of the position involves sitting at a desk, attending conferences or meetings and occasional visits to various worksites. Occasional use of automobile and public conveyances may be required. No special physical exertion is required. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

How to Apply: All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 05/15/2026 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12954193. To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupational questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your application package. NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the closing date. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at: https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/merit-hiring-plan-resources/applicant-guidance-on-the-two-page-resume-limit/ The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified: applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the required competencies of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/. During the application process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

Application Deadline: 2026-05-15