Personnel Psychologist

Specialized Experience: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. 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. The Office of Personnel Management’s group coverage qualification standards, associated individual occupational requirements (IOR), and individual qualification standards covering white collar occupations in the Federal competitive service can be found here. You must meet both the Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) and the Specialized Experience by the closing date of this announcement. IOR:Degree: major or equivalent in psychology for all specializations except clinical psychology and counseling psychology. These two specializations have additional educational requirements, as stated below: Clinical psychology: For positions at grades GS-11 and above, satisfactory completion of all the requirements for the doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) directly related to full professional work in clinical psychology is required. Counseling psychology: For positions at grades GS-9 and above, satisfactory completion of 2 full academic years of graduate study directly related to professional work in counseling psychology, or satisfactory completion in an accredited educational institution of all the requirements for a master’s degree directly related to counseling psychology is required. Specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-12) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as work that involves: (1) Reviewing policies, practices, and procedures for hidden impediments regarding equal opportunity for applicants and employees (2) Designing organizational competency assessments, developing plans, strategies, indices, frameworks, and analytical toolkits to enhance organizational objectives (3) Constructing and evaluating customized assessment tools, workforce indicators and/or applicable core metrics. (4) Expressing information to multiple audiences through clear, oral, and written communications (reports, guides, presentations, briefings, white papers, toolkits, training). (5) Conducting statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative data using advanced statistical packages such as SPSS, SAS, or R. Time-in-grade: Applicants who are/were federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12 level. To support your claim of time in grade, you must submit your most recent appointment, promotion, or within grade increase SF-50 (not an award or general adjustment SF-50). Some applicants may have to submit more than one SF-50 to demonstrate their eligibility. See the required documents section for more information.
As a Personnel Psychologist, you will provide advice and guidance to departmental leadership, management officials, and employees on a variety of major departmental-wide programs and policies related to human capital, diversity, inclusion, and organizational development, as well as measure and assess their effectiveness.