TTS Talent - Sourcing Strategist

TTS Talent is hiring for GS-13 - Sourcing Strategist. This page contains information related to the role as well as a link to submit your application. Check out Join TTS Hiring Process to learn more about the application process.

Location: Virtual (100% Remote); Washington, DC; San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; New York, NY;

Salary Range: The salary range for this position is: GS-13 Step 1 - $92,143 to GS-13 Step 10 $146,120

Your salary, including base and locality, will be determined upon selection, dependent on your actual duty location.

You can find more information about this in the compensation and benefits section on our site.

For specific details on locality pay, please visit OPM’s Salaries & Wages page or for a salary calculator OPM’s 2021 General Schedule (GS) Salary Calculator.

Please note the maximum salary available for the GS pay system is $172,500

Note: You may not be eligible for the maximum salary as it is locality dependent. Please refer to the maximum pay for your locality.

Who May Apply: All United States citizens and nationals (residents of American Samoa and Swains Islands)

Role Summary:

Sourcing Strategist - GS-13

As a Sourcing Strategist on the Talent Team, you will be a critical strategic driver in the Technology Transformation Services’ (TTS) ability to meet its needs, as well as its ability to reflect the diversity of the people we serve. You will build strong pipelines of diverse talent at all levels, from a wide range of disciplines including: design, engineering, product management, business operations and executive leadership. You’ll work closely with hiring managers to implement targeted attraction strategies, and you’ll also ensure that all of the candidates that you engage with have a positive experience.

Talent team members:

• Work collaboratively to solve hiring challenges within the organization
• Communicate with hiring managers and candidates with empathy and transparency
• Are committed to improving diversity, equity and inclusion within TTS

Key Objectives

Key objective #1: You’ll find highly qualified candidates to meet the hiring needs of technical roles across the organization.

• Work closely with Recruiters and hiring managers to deeply understand requirements of various roles and how they fit into the organization
• Develop and execute fully comprehensive sourcing plans, analyzing requirements to determine target profile needs and matches
• Manage sourcing for multiple, complex searches, creating and advising on innovative sourcing strategies
• Develop inclusive sourcing strategies to target under-represented talent and use innovative sourcing solutions to identify hidden candidate pools
• Source talent using a variety of tools, including boolean search and maintain a high volume, consistent, and quality pipeline easily shared across talent team

Key objective #2: You’ll engage passive talent in meaningful, authentic ways and will ensure every candidate has a positive experience.

• Attract engaged, civic-minded folks and often passive candidates through strategic outreach techniques, communication and social media posts by demonstrating and sharing the story of our people, the work we do, and why it matters
• Act as a true ambassador for TTS, representing and delivering our message through one-on-one conversations, on social media channels, written communication and by delivering candidate information sessions
• Generate high-impact, tailored content for outreach materials, presentations, and communications; find ways to meaningfully connect with candidates
• Share your passion for the incredible impact that digital solutions, platforms, and products can have on the civic space — and ultimately, on the American public

Key objective #3: You’ll develop and build a data-driven approach to creating and improving sourcing processes for the Talent Team.

• Cultivate deep knowledge of talent, technology and industry trends
• Diligently maintain sourcing data and track overall effectiveness of sourcing campaigns and relatable metrics
• Utilize data and metrics to continuously improve your sourcing strategy and approach and to analyze impact
• Advocate for experimentation and trying new approaches to improve results
• Teach and mentor Talent Team on sourcing best practices

Basic Information

Location: Virtual (100% Remote); Washington, DC; San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; New York, NY;

Salary Range: Base salary GS-13 - $92,143 to $146,120

If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected. Total compensation may include locality pay based on the individual’s duty location. For more salary information including locality pay details, please visit OPM’s Salaries & Wages page.

Who May Apply: All United States citizens and nationals (residents of American Samoa and Swains Islands)

Job announcement number: 21FASC273SVGDE

Opening and closing period for this job application: Monday, June 14, 2021 EDT to 11:59pm on Monday, June 21, 2021 EDT

Job Title: Innovation Specialist

Series & Grade: 0301 - 13

Promotion Potential: GS-13

Number of vacancies: 1 (Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement as needed)

Supervisory status: NO

Travel requirement: Occasional travel may be required up to 10%-20% per year

Security clearance: Public trust. Background investigation required.

Work Schedule: Full time

Appointment Type: Competetive TERM: Not to exceed 4 years.

Job Summary

This position is located within the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Technology Transformation Service (TTS).

GSA has been repeatedly named as one of the ‘Best Places to Work’ in the federal government. You will have access to many benefits including:

• Health insurance (choose from a wide range of plans)
• Life insurance coverage with several options
• Sick leave and vacation time, including 10 paid holidays per year
• Thrift Savings Plan (similar to a 401(k) plan)
• Flexible work schedules and telework
• Transit and child care subsidies
• Training and development
• Flexible spending accounts
• Long-term care insurance
• Training and development

Key Requirements

1. You must be a U.S. Citizen or National (residents of American Samoa and Swains Islands)
2. Suitable for federal employment, determined by a background investigation
3. You may be required to serve a trial period
4. Direct Deposit of salary check to financial organization required
5. Register with Selective Service, if you are required by https://www.sss.gov/Registration-Info/Who-Registration

Employment Requirements

• Serve a one year trial period, if required
• Undergo and pass a background investigation. You must be granted this clearance before you can start the job
• Have your identity and work status eligibility verified if you are not a GSA employee. We will use the Department of Homeland Security’s e-Verify system for this
• Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of continued employment
• Complete a financial disclosure report to verify that no conflict, or an appearance of conflict, exists between your financial interest and this position

Application Evaluation

The information in this sections outlines the criteria that your application will be evaluated against to determine if you meet the Qualifications for the position. There are two very important things to note about this step in the process:

1. Only applications found “minimally qualified” are shared with the hiring manager and are the only candidates eligible to be interviewed
2. The Minimum Qualification determination can only be made using the information that’s directly within your resume and directly associated your listed work experience.
   • Examples of stuff that can’t be used:
   • Links to portfolios or other external materials (Yes, the links themselves may be “directly” on the resume but the information is not).
   • Information you include in cover letters, responses to questions, etc. as these are not directly associated with your work experience
   • Lists of tools, technologies, programming languages, etc. that are listed separately from your work experience

The Qualification process is a bureaucratic requirement that we are stuck with. It’s best to think about it as the most intense and rigorous resume review you’ve ever heard of. To get through this process you need make sure your resume directly reflects the Qualifications listed below. We also have more guidance on creating a federal style resume on Join TTS Hiring Process

Qualifications

All applications will be reviewed by a panel of subject matter experts against a scoring rubric created for this role. In order to properly be able to evaluate your previous experience, we recommend being as detailed as possible in your resume and following our general guidance on creating federal style resume.

To qualify for this role, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service.

Specialized experience must have been obtained in an information technology environment and is defined as experience:

• Creating sourcing strategies for a technology organization’s talent acquisition program;
• Training and mentoring recruiters on strategic sourcing methods;
• Sourcing candidates for technology positions (software developers, user experience designers, product managers) using advanced Boolean logic search strings and -X-Ray search applied to different mediums such as LinkedIn and Twitter;
• Experience developing and implementing sourcing strategies to reach underrepresented candidates in support of organizational DE&I efforts;
• Experience crafting, testing, and iterating on / reformulating compelling candidate outreach messaging:
• Maintaining sourced candidate data in spreadsheets or a candidate database equivalent. Experience must include reporting out on metrics related to outreach response rates, conversion of passive to active candidate rates, success rate of various candidate sources (i,e. job boards or events) or percentage of sourced candidates that convert to hires

Qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, so failure to provide this information may result in disqualification.

For each job on your resume, provide:

• the exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year or “present”)
• number of hours per week you worked (if part time)