Serving Congress and the Supreme Court, the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the builder and steward of the landmark buildings and grounds of Capitol Hill. As the Reasonable Accommodation Specialist, you will ensure all programs, services, benefits, activities, and offices are fully accessible to, and usable by people with disabilities and reasonable accommodations. You are also responsible for AOC’s compliance with government wide ADA title I-Employment, disability rights and laws.
You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in Federal service. Specialized experience includes the following (the applicant must meet a minimum of four (4) specialized experience qualifications): (1) Comprehensive and thorough knowledge of laws, equal employment opportunity policy and procedures, rules, regulations, and precedent legal and administrative decisions related to personnel management. (2) Demonstrated skills in fact-finding, investigative, and analytical techniques requiring decisions in interpreting varied and complex factual situations in the context of the requirements of laws, regulations, or policies. (4) Experience developing, managing, implementing, and evaluating EEO Reasonable Accommodation program. (5) Experience identifying barriers to reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities including management policies and practices to eliminate barriers to enhance employment opportunities. (5) Experience interpreting and applying guidelines in the context of employee requests for reasonable accommodation/accessibility.
Major duties for this position include: Reasonable Accommodation Management and Compliance (80%) Provides technical advice, providing guidance to AOC management, employees, and applicants on issues impacting individuals with disabilities. Manages a caseload of complex reasonable accommodation requests, within established time frames to include accommodating an employee in their current position. Responsible for providing expert advice and leadership in carrying out agency policies and programs of nondiscrimination and affirmative employment. Performs special assignments and projects for the Deputy Director, utilizing expert knowledge of ADA, other disability rights laws and the AOC policies, regulations, and guidelines. Reasonable Accommodation Advisement (20%) Provides technical advice, providing guidance to AOC management, employees, applicants, human resources officials and advocacy groups on issues impacting individuals with disabilities. Ensures the recommendations to the agency’s disability employment programs are consistent with established laws, rules, and regulations. Drafts, formulates, amends, revises, and prepares operating policies and guidelines that address the collection and analysis of workforce data. Provides advice to management and staff on approaches to promote disability awareness. Coordinates, develops, and provides disability related training as necessary. Drafts correspondence to the employee, management official and treating physicians, communicating to all parties the necessary information to ensure processing of requests for reasonable accommodation and accessibility. Performs other related duties as assigned.