Equal Employment Manager

Veterans Health Administration; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seeks an Equal Employment Manager to lead EEO/AE, ADR, and external Civil Rights functions within Workforce Management and Consulting (WMC).

This senior role requires experience applying federal EEO laws and directing program initiatives in a federal environment. Applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date and understand time-in-grade and SF-50 documentation.

Qualifications

• Specialized experience in applying Federal EEO laws, regulations, and policies.
• Experience planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating an EEO program.
• Experience proposing and developing policy on EEO/AE, ADR, and CR matters.

Responsibilities

• Lead EEO/AE, ADR, and CR programs within WMC.
• Oversee compliance activities, policy development, and program evaluation.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to implement equal opportunity initiatives.

Skills

EEO policies

Program management

Compliance

Job description

The Equal Employment Manager serves as a senior level manager responsible for the Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Employment (EEO/AE), Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), and external Civil Rights (CR) functions within Workforce Management and Consulting (WMC).

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/04/2026.

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-15 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-14. 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.

You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-14 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: (1) Applying Federal EEO laws, regulations, Executive Orders, policies and principles governing Federal EEO/AE, ADR, and CR programs and practices; (2) Planning, organizing, directing and evaluating an equal employment opportunity program; (3) proposing and developing policy on EEO/AE, ADR, and CR matters; and (4) performing compliance and enforcement activities, administrative management, and technical consulting in order to develop, review, and evaluate policies and programs impacting equal opportunity.

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/.