Supervisory Personnel Psychologist

Position Description: Title/PD#: Supervisory Personnel Psychologist/ PD426910 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required Physical Demands: The work is primarily sedentary. Applicants selected for this position may be required to serve a one-year supervisory probationary period. Failure to successfully complete the supervisory probationary period will result in the employee being reassigned to a position in the agency of no lower grade and pay than the one the employee left to accept the supervisory or managerial position.

Major Duties: Building, procuring, evaluating, and implementing modern, scientifically grounded and validated, job-specific, and user-friendly pre-employment assessments streamlining and standardizing VHA's hiring process. Overseeing the development of systematic job analyses, relevant performance metrics, predictive candidate assessments, validation studies, and adverse impact studies. Facilitating the formulation and implementation of Talent Solutions (TS) goals, objectives, policies, and action plans. Ensuring the TS strategic plan is aligned with the plans and direction of the WMC program office, Chief of Human Capital Management, and the OMB/OPM mandate. Recommending and participating in developing strategies for national initiatives and human capital management. Engaging mission partners across VA and VHA as necessary to address and resolve issues related to TS service lines. Tracking, coordinating and/or preparing responses to inquiries and taskings from VHACO, OIG, VA, GAO, OPM, Congress and other oversight organizations. Ensuring all responses are thoroughly prepared and submitted within required timeframes. Facilitating staff meetings, preparing update briefings, and representing TS in executive-level forums. Routinely conducting or participating in conference calls, meetings and email discussions regarding TS service lines and issues. Conducting special projects or studies analyzing, evaluating and providing recommendations on administrative programs. Providing expert advice, making recommendations, and reconciling conflicts between policies, regulations, and legislation and program goals. Providing technical and administrative supervision through three direct report service line program directors and subordinate staff. Managing broad, complex programs and projects across the Department. Directing research studies, process improvement, and resource costing that determine effectiveness and efficiencies of TS programs that may lead to changes in VA policy and directives. Providing technical control and independent authority for reviewing/developing and approving processes and procedures for supporting VA policy decisions. Representing the pillar Deputy Director, Executive Director, WMC Deputy Chief Officer and Chief Officer, and the Chief of Human Capital Management, in discussions with VA and other Federal representatives, maintaining the highest level of confidentiality during representation.