Total 2,162 Full-time job vacancies in Barrow in Furness, LA14 4LF

• Serve as a subject matter expert for the Army’s prevention workforce in a highly specialized area of public health / prevention science.
• Support prevention data efforts as assigned by supervisor.
• Provide technical expertise (e.g., data integration through statistical software, tool development, and technical assistance) to inform requests for information comprehensive needs assessments, and comprehensive integrated primary prevention plans.
• Collaborate with relevant internal and external partners to provide support to public health studies, prevention research, and evaluation projects.
• Represent the Army at professional, DoD, and other government agency scientific and technical meetings.

• Provide expert advice and counsel to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) senior officials on a broad range of administrative program management initiatives related to addressing Presidential, Department, or Agency priorities.
• Exercise supervisory and managerial authorities over the Office of Commissioner (OC) Information Technology liaisons (i.e.,CITL) which is responsible for all OO and OC Help Desk ticketing and answering IT questions and matters.
• Direct special studies and workgroups to evaluate operational and budgetary effectiveness for IT through strategic thinking, critical analysis, resources performance management, policy development, and customer-relations management.
• Using knowledge of the FDA budget process, specifically IT cost allocation model, and applying federal Capital Planning and Investment Control practices, work across OC to compile and maintain annual and strategic budgets for the OC.
• Use an orderly, logical, and efficient approach to diagnosing issues/problems to assess impact on organizational initiatives: identify and gather relevant information; assess short- and long- term impact of decisions.
• Provide authoritative guidance to Agency of Office review boards in connection to the efficiency of businesses processes as related to the Information Technology (IT) systems used for regulatory operations.

As a Drug and Alcohol Policy Advisor, you will:

• Provide authoritative information and analysis, either written or oral, that identifies, interprets, and develops alternatives and options to complex questions of Drug and Alcohol policy.
• Recommend effective methods to implement and comply with the drug and alcohol statutes and regulations.
• Draft policies and procedures and assists with drafting regulations related to the implementation of the drug and alcohol testing requirements.
• Assist with providing technical and program training and seminars at the national level to specific audiences
• Serve as a technical Drug and Alcohol policy advisor in dealing with government officials, modal administrators, officials, and representatives of private transportation industries, members of professional associations, labor unions, and academia, and the public in the areas of federal laws and regulations.

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated and innovative candidate with a background in drug and alcohol treatment programs, drug and alcohol counseling, and/or equipment with drug and alcohol counselor credentialing requirements. You must have excellent writing skills for authoring regulations, policies, and advisory documents. You must also possess strong verbal abilities to explain everything from basic to complex topics. You must be able to work cooperatively as part of a team of experts and communicate well. Knowledge of drug and alcohol testing regulations is recommended.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Define appropriate levels of system availability based on critical system functions and ensure that system requirements identify appropriate disaster recovery and continuity of operations requirements to include any appropriate fail-over/alternate site requirements, backup requirements, and material supportability requirements for system recover/restoration.
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders. Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes.
• Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system lifecycle support plans, concept of operations,operational procedures, and maintenance training materials).
• Write detailed functional specifications that document the architecture development process.
• Analyze user needs and requirements to plan architecture.
• Plan implementation strategy to ensure that enterprise components can be integrated and aligned. Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements.
• Document how the implementation of a new system or new interface between systems impacts the current and target environment including but not limited to security posture.
• Consult with customers to evaluate functional requirements.
• Coordinate with systems architects and developers, as needed, to provide oversight in the development of design solutions.
• Define project scope and objectives based on customer requirements.
• Oversee and make recommendations regarding configuration management.
• Perform needs analysis to determine opportunities for new and improved business process solutions.
• Prepare use cases to justify the need for specific information technology (IT) solutions.
• Develop methods to monitor and measure risk, compliance, and assurance efforts.
• Resolve conflicts in laws, regulations, policies, standards, or procedures.
• Ensure that all acquisitions, procurements, and outsourcing efforts address information security requirements consistent with organization goals.
• Manage the internal relationship with information technology (IT) process owners supporting the service, assisting with the definition and agreement of Operating Level Agreements (OLAs).

The following are the major duties of the GS-15 Supervisory Contract Specialist.

• Serves as a departmental technical expert and authority on all aspects of procurement and contract actions.
• Manages major and often complex programs such as nationwide Information Technology services which require long-range planning, scheduling, and problem-solving abilities based upon a solid foundation of contracting methods and contract types.
• Interprets policies, defines objectives and makes authoritative decisions which establish precedents or resolve technical and procedural problems.
• Develop and establish positions on key issues of importance when negotiating regulatory and statutory authorities or justifying division strategies and operations to achieve compliance with established policies, regulations and requirements.
• Lead an organization and/or program by managing change, solving problems and making decisions, managing politics and influencing others, taking risk and being innovative.
• Applies precedents found in government contracting case law to specific contracting situations to ensure that legally binding contracting officer decisions are consistent, justifiable and will be upheld at appellate courts or board.
• Advises customers on acquisition-related roles and in the development and implementation of strategies needed to assure supplies and services are available when needed to meet mission requirements, and advises senior leadership on problems involving the relationship of the work of the Divisions to broader programs.
• Represents the organization in contractual matters with other Department and Federal agencies and in negotiations with private industry.
• Shares information from meetings with DOL Leadership in writing or in presentations with DOL Leadership, senior managers and OSPE staff.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Supervisory Equal Opportunity Specialist, GS-0360-14, you will be responsible for:
• Provides team and program leadership in the planning and conduct of complaint investigations, compliance reviews, proactive enforcement activities, and the provision of technical assistance.
• Supervises and participates in the activities of the case resolution team, coordinates with other OCR teams, plans and assigns work, assures that quality and quantity requirements are met, evaluates performance, deals with officials of other units in the organization, advises management officials at higher levels on group complaints, effects disciplinary actions, recommends personnel actions, and promotes team building.
• Provides professional leadership and guidance to team members, state and institutional officials in conducting, extending and improving civil rights complaint investigation, compliance review, proactive enforcement and technical assistance activities. Provides leadership in establishing and maintaining positive relationships with customers including state officials, recipients, civil rights organizations, and education groups.
• Conducts extremely complex complaint investigations that are likely to result in major precedent-setting decisions and is responsible for each phase of the case through resolution. If enforcement is necessary, the Team Leader provides expert testimony in an administrative hearing or subsequent court actions.
• Reviews the allegations, identifies, analyzes and interprets considerable pertinent data, interviews witnesses, develops legal theories and investigative plans.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Supervisory General Attorney, GS-0905-14, you will be responsible for:
•    Ensuring that the team's complaint investigations, compliance reviews, and proactive enforcement activities are factually accurate and legally sound.
•    Providing professional leadership and guidance to team members in conducting, and improving civil rights complaint investigations, compliance review, proactive enforcement, and technical assistance activities.  
•    Providing legal guidance to the team on the analysis of evidence, investigative reports, resolution letters, and negotiated settlements.  
•    Planning and conducting complete on-site investigations.  
•    Conducting compliance reviews of selected recipient institutions with respect to the requirements of appropriate statues and regulations.

• Supervise a group of employees performing work up to the GS-14 level.
• Manage and direct the performance of a full range of complex procurement activities for contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements in support of USAID/W bureaus, offices, and overseas Mission programs worldwide.
• Provide expert procurement advice to senior officials on all acquisition matters, ensuring actions are executed in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, accounting standards, pricing practices and current business methods.
• Negotiate procurement of products and services under a variety of contract/assistance mechanisms.
• Manage procurement planning activities such as preparing and maintaining current acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts, and related schedules.
• Participate in strategy and planning phases, evaluation of offers, negotiations, contract award, and contract administration.

• Instruct BASIC and advanced immigration courses.
• Design, develop, and revise course content.
• Maintain and assure specific course content is current, technically accurate, sound and consistent with established agency goals and operational policies.
• Conduct independent research on immigration policy or procedural changes mandated by recent legislation and/or precedent decisions in order to update assigned course modules and maintain subject matter expertise.
• Modify and prepare lectures, exercises, and job aids using adult learning methodologies that correspond with the abilities and demonstrated progression of the student to ensure instruction is adequately understood.
• Manage or coordinate classroom activities by providing technical and program guidance to students and instructors in such areas as attendance, academic issues, scheduling, special accommodations and ceremonies.

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Deliver and support internal and external communications and public outreach, coordinating and managing the implementation of all communications elements using both internal and external resources.
• Express facts and ideas both in writing and orally in a clear, concise, and organized manner that meets established standards for format and style and is appropriate for the intended audience.
• Ensure that announcements, invitations to bid, requests for information, requests for proposals, and related contractual documents in the administration of contracts are distributed and posted.
• Prepare personnel to speak effectively on program matters with the public, industry, and other interested groups.
• Oversee the communication of the necessary memoranda, dockets, and purchase plans, and ensures clearance with appropriate officials.
• Coordinate with the Food and Drug Administration, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Food and Nutrition Service, and other Federal, State, and local government agencies to resolve complaints.
• Coordinates with the AMS FOIA Office and Subject Matter experts to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests.

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-14. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs. Identify new processes, techniques, and
  procedures to upgrade and enhance security protocols.
• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of new technology and other developments in the field of
  information technology. Interpret and evaluate proposed legislation and broad-based policies
  concerning IT.
• Develop, recommend, and implement approved security contingency plans, incident response plans, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Represent the organization with Departmental and multi-agency work groups focused on issues of systems security. Provide technical leadership on group projects.
• Assess potential impact on existing program requirements. Evaluate the feasibility of implementing new developments to enhance systems security and reliability.

VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU

The incumbent is accountable to the Primary Care Social Work Supervisor in carrying out operational functions described above. The incumbent has clinical involvement in patient care by providing clinical case consultation to patient/family/community inquiries about services or patient care issues provided by the VA. Clinical social work services may be delivered in person or by electronic media, such as phone, V-Tel or home tele-health. Services will generally be provided in a clinic setting but may occasionally need to be provided in the community or in a patient/family home.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Psychosocial Assessment - The social worker will develop an assessment of the veteran, family, economic, community, and psychosocial support
systems when clinically indicated. The assessments must reflect a high level of skill in gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and documenting data
that is pertinent and directly related to patient health care planning, treatment, education and case management. The veteran, family members, significant others and the interdisciplinary treatment team are involved in this process, whenever possible. The goal of the communication is to highlight the veteran's strengths, limitations, and internal/external supports and service needs in order to optimize the veteran's functional status and safely maintain the veteran in his/her home.

Clinical diagnosing using DSM-5 and ICD-10 behavior codes - Incumbent demonstrates knowledge in DSM-5 diagnosing and documents diagnostic
impressions in psychosocial assessments when appropriate. Clinician may function independently or within a team to determine an appropriate
diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan based on that diagnosis.

Treatment Planning/Goal Setting - Incumbent demonstrates basic knowledge of psychosocial treatment modalities and demonstrates the ability to implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups to achieve treatment goals. This requires judgment and skill in utilizing supportive, problem solving, or crisis intervention techniques. The social worker is responsible for developing a treatment plan, and setting achievable treatment goals with the veteran/family in collaboration with the primary care interdisciplinary treatment team members when indicated. Incumbent demonstrates basic knowledge of medical and mental diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures to include acute, chronic and traumatic illnesses/injuries; common medications and their effects/side/effects; and basic medical terminology.

Therapy- Social worker will provide the veterans and their caregivers with ongoing psychotherapy (group and/or individual) and/or supportive counseling when appropriate. Incumbent is able to demonstrate the ability to utilize the DSM-V to ensure appropriate treatment recommendations.

Referral to service providers - Throughout the course of treatment the social worker is the subject matter expert on VA and/or community resources. The social worker will collaborate with other service providers in reassessing the veteran's needs for VA and community resources and entitlements. The social worker is responsible for educating the veteran and/or caregiver of the available services and assisting them in establishing the appropriate referrals based on the veteran's preference or that of his/her surrogate decision-maker.

Resource Development - The social worker is responsible for developing a resource file of VA and community social service programs and will refer the veteran to needed services.

Advocacy - Social worker understands the intimidation of bureaucracy and will act as an advocate when it serves the best interest of the veteran/family. When appropriate and feasible, social worker will educate and encourage the veteran/family to advocate for themselves, thus fostering a sense of independence and empowerment.

Crisis Intervention - Social worker is experienced in making rapid assessments and developing crisis management plans to maintain patient in the home, for admission to acute, short term and/or long term placements. Social worker has access to multiple resource directories in addition to previously developed resources to meet the demands of a crisis.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. or 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
This position is remote, which is defined as: An alternative work arrangement in which an employee, under a written remote work agreement, is scheduled to perform their official duties at an alternative worksite and is not expected to perform work at an agency worksite on a regular and recurring basis. A remote worker's official worksite may be within or outside the commuting area of an agency worksite.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized.
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.

Specific duties include:

• The incumbent monitors and reports on the status of work in progress and reviews completed work to ensure that instructions on work priorities, method, deadlines and quality have been met.
• The incumbent provides training to acquisition staff members, management, and customers regarding methods and techniques of performing contract actions and analyzing acquisition policy. The incumbent provides or arranges specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishment of individual and team tasks.
• The Procurement Analyst coordinates the response to and analysis of unique and complicated Congressional inquiries requiring extensive research. He or she examines and responds to Office of Inspector General (OIG} Hotline case referrals as determined by the Acquisition Division leadership. This will include, but is not limited to, site visits' recommendation development, official written responses; and coordination with members from OIG. The incumbent may, at times, serve on interdisciplinary groups to resolve and analyze issues as described above.
• The incumbent defines or assists in defining areas in which to conduct vulnerability assessments including assessments of contract administration/management systems, practices and procedures. The incumbent provides training to acquisition staff members, management, and customers regarding methods and techniques of performing contract actions and analyzing acquisition policy. The incumbent provides or arranges specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishment of individual and team tasks.
• The incumbent has wide latitude in reviewing daily operations and apprising the management team on problem areas, proposing corrective actions to be taken, and the monitoring of those actions once implemented. Public Laws, VA Manuals and Directives, Federal Acquisition and Veterans Administration Acquisition Regulations serve as the basis for interpretations, decisions, and correct application of VBA's data systems, principles, contract methods, and techniques. The incumbent will serve as the Alternate Automated Data Processing Applications Coordinator for VBA. He or she develops programs to support computer-enhanced systematic internal reviews and provides comprehensive analysis on a wide variety of VBA acquisition functions conducted via automation. The incumbent must initiate and analyze studies of VBA acquisition to provide feedback and generate new initiatives to enhance the current processes. As necessary, the incumbent revises, modifies, and installs new system procedures and/or organizational changes subject to the concurrence of the Supervisor or Director. The incumbent plans, organizes, and conducts computer systems training programs which promote the highest standard of employee efficiency, computer skill, and motivation.

- Responsible for providing multi-state and multi-agency recruitment and staffing program administration to include operations involving the areas of Special Programs (Veterans, diversity, the disabled, the Pathways Programs, etc), Direct-Hire Authority, Delegated Examining Authority, including program evaluation.

-Evaluates the recruitment and placement program considering current workload, previous schedules, priority matters, anticipated program, procedural issues, staffing levels, and other changes in developments. Conducts evaluations to determine the effectiveness of human resource programs to ensure they are meeting management objectives, promoting supervisory understanding and acceptance of programs, principles, and procedures as they relate to employee rights, privileges, and responsibilities; ensures integration of administrative programs with total personnel management.

-Administers and provides oversight and evaluation for processing personnel actions meeting all legal and regulatory requirements to ensure technical accuracy with flow through personnel/payroll systems, all of which have long-term impacts and financial implications for each employee. Additionally, provides oversight and evaluation of the Employee Timekeeping and Attendance System operations.

-Recommends changes in procedures to meet workload demands and to effect other operations. The results of the work have a significant impact on the effectiveness and acceptance of HR programs, as well as, supervisor's and mangers' ability to effectively accomplish their work throughout the Region and Agencies serviced by staffing and classification.

• Research, interpret and apply federal HR personnel laws, regulations, policies, and practices.
• Provide comprehensive and strategic recruitment and placement advisory services to serviced clients.
• Collaborate with hiring officials to coordinate the specific recruitment needs of the organization.
• Provide position classification management advisor services that typically deal with difficult, complex, and often issues controversial to position management.
• Review current and proposed policies, procedures, and other guidance and provides input in order to improve effectiveness of HR operations and programs.