Total 3 Human Resources job vacancies in Natick, Massachusetts

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will, serve as the Employee Services Branch Chief, reporting to the Mission Support Director. You will provide advisory services to the Region in the areas of recruitment and placement, organizational development and position management and other human resources programs and services. Typical assignments include:

• Planning, developing, and implementing a comprehensive personnel management program.
• Providing authoritative advice and innovative direction on all aspects of human resources management.
• Providing expertise and guidance on workforce expansion, such as, right sizing and re-organization, along with external and internal recruitment and placement.
• Resolving complaints and grievances with Labor and Employee Relations in coordination with Alternate Dispute Resolution.
• Performing research and providing expert policy recommendation and interpretations.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will, serve as the Employee Services Branch Chief, reporting to the Mission Support Director. You will provide advisory services to the Region in the areas of recruitment and placement, organizational development and position management and other human resources programs and services. Typical assignments include:

• Planning, developing, and implementing a comprehensive personnel management program.
• Providing authoritative advice and innovative direction on all aspects of human resources management.
• Providing expertise and guidance on workforce expansion, such as, right sizing and re-organization, along with external and internal recruitment and placement.
• Resolving complaints and grievances with Labor and Employee Relations in coordination with Alternate Dispute Resolution.
• Performing research and providing expert policy recommendation and interpretations.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

• Provides employee relations assistance to managers for assigned organizations of a complex nature. Serves as a senior specialist resolving very difficult employee relations issues.
• Provides labor relations advisory services. Responds to inquiries or requests in a timely fashion. Recognizes and acts on situations needing attention.
• Thoroughly researches and accurately evaluates facts and develops complex management positions, proposals, and agendas for negotiations.
• Administers labor relations assignment. Completes high-quality staff work for a variety of actions including Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) position papers, grievances and appeals, union complaints, Congressional Inquiries, etc.
• Prepares and delivers written reports and oral presentations, e.g., briefings, training sessions, consultations, orientations, and discussions with senior leadership, supervisors, employees, and union officials.