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USAJOBS · 1 week ago

Reasonable Accommodation Specialist

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$122K/yr - $158K/yr

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) serves Congress and the Supreme Court, acting as the builder and steward of Capitol Hill's landmark buildings and grounds. The Reasonable Accommodation Specialist ensures all programs and services are accessible to individuals with disabilities and oversees compliance with ADA title I-Employment and related laws.

ConsultingGovernmentHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyInternetStaffing Agency

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Provides technical advice, providing guidance to AOC management, employees, and applicants on issues impacting individuals with disabilities

Manages a caseload of complex reasonable accommodation requests, within established time frames to include accommodating an employee in their current position

Responsible for providing expert advice and leadership in carrying out agency policies and programs of nondiscrimination and affirmative employment

Performs special assignments and projects for the Deputy Director, utilizing expert knowledge of ADA, other disability rights laws and the AOC policies, regulations, and guidelines

Ensures the recommendations to the agency’s disability employment programs are consistent with established laws, rules, and regulations

Drafts, formulates, amends, revises, and prepares operating policies and guidelines that address the collection and analysis of workforce data

Provides advice to management and staff on approaches to promote disability awareness

Coordinates, develops, and provides disability related training as necessary

Drafts correspondence to the employee, management official and treating physicians, communicating to all parties the necessary information to ensure processing of requests for reasonable accommodation and accessibility

Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualification

ADA complianceEEO policy knowledgeReasonable accommodation programFact-finding skillsAnalytical techniquesDisability awarenessVerbal communicationWritten communication

Required

You must be able to pass a drug test

Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related KSAs

You must meet the definition of specialized experience

You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled

To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in Federal service

Specialized experience includes the following (the applicant must meet a minimum of four (4) specialized experience qualifications):

Comprehensive and thorough knowledge of laws, equal employment opportunity policy and procedures, rules, regulations, and precedent legal and administrative decisions related to personnel management

Demonstrated skills in fact-finding, investigative, and analytical techniques requiring decisions in interpreting varied and complex factual situations in the context of the requirements of laws, regulations, or policies

Experience developing, managing, implementing, and evaluating EEO Reasonable Accommodation program

Experience identifying barriers to reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities including management policies and practices to eliminate barriers to enhance employment opportunities

Experience interpreting and applying guidelines in the context of employee requests for reasonable accommodation/accessibility