Reasonable Accommodation Coordinator

• Serve as DFCs principal technical advisor and coordinator for the Reasonable Accommodation program. Provide authoritative advice and guidance to senior leadership managers supervisors employees applicants and other stakeholders concerning Federal laws executive orders OPM guidance Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)-related requirements agency directives and decisions governing reasonable accommodation and disability employment.
• Interpret and apply reasonable accommodation requirements to individual requests complex workplace situations and agency wide conditions unique to DFC. Resolve questions concerning the interpretation of laws regulations and policies and their application to special situations.
• Review requests and supporting justifications requiring approval by the Chief Operating Officer or higher authority. Evaluate the sufficiency of documentation analyze the reasonableness and effectiveness of proposed accommodations recommend approval or denial and prepare decision documents correspondence and related briefing materials.
• Coordinate the receipt review tracking analysis and resolution of reasonable accommodation requests from DFC employees and applicants. Facilitate the interactive process among the requesting individual supervisor management officials the Office of Human Resources Management legal counsel information technology facilities procurement security and other stakeholders as appropriate.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National
• Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service
• Must submit resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
• Suitability for Federal employment as determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period

Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level). Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement.

TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government or former career or career-conditional employees who have a break in service of less than one year are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b).

You may qualify at the GS-14 level if you fulfill the following qualification requirement:
One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your ability to lead coordinate and provide senior-level advisory support for a reasonable accommodation program. This includes experience in ALL of the following: 1) evaluating accommodation requests; 2) facilitating and/or participating in the reasonable accommodation interactive process; 3) advising appropriate parties on reasonable accommodation requests such as managers employees applicants human resources officials Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) officials legal counsel and senior leaders; 4) acting as a decision-official for reasonable accommodation requests; AND 5) managing an organizations reasonable accommodation program to include duties such as preparing and delivering decision notifications and justifications; developing or improving reasonable accommodation policies procedures training tracking systems or internal controls; coordinating implementation of effective accommodations; handling confidential medical information; and analyzing program data to assess timeliness compliance trends risks and program effectiveness.

Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level.

Please Note: Applicants may be asked to produce a writing sample during the interview stage.


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; religious; 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.

This announcement may be used to fill similar positions if additional vacancies occur.