Equal Employment Opportunity

Equal employment specialists in the 0260 series run an agency’s internal EEO program: counseling employees who raise discrimination complaints, processing and investigating formal complaints under the EEOC’s federal-sector rules, handling reasonable accommodation requests, running affirmative employment and special emphasis programs, training managers and reporting to the EEOC. Every agency must have the function, so the series appears across government; listings here have come from the Defense Logistics Agency, the Defense Human Resources Activity, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Marine Corps, the Veterans Health Administration and the National Science Foundation.

Recent listings have included equal employment specialists and supervisory equal employment specialists, a course management trainer, an EEO specialist in reasonable accommodations posted as a detail or temporary promotion, and an equal employment manager.

Applying tip: announcements rate knowledge of the federal-sector complaint process in 29 CFR Part 1614, the Rehabilitation Act’s accommodation rules and EEOC reporting, so cite the stages you have handled, counseling, investigation, final agency decisions, and whether you hold EEO counselor or investigator certification. Detail and temporary promotion announcements are usually open only to current employees. The HR jobs guide covers the related personnel series.