The foundation for success of the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) mission is our people. It is DeCA’s goal to have a workforce that is representative of the nation’s diverse cultures and backgrounds. We strive for a work environment of world-class enterprise leaders and an engaged, highly motivated, and capable workforce with a results oriented performance culture.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO VETERANS CLAIMING PREFERENCE: PLEASE REFER TO THE OTHER INFORMATION SECTION FOR UPDATED INFORMATION ON VETERANS PREFERENCE CRITERIA.
The DeCA operates a worldwide commissary system that provides quality grocery products at cost to active duty military personnel and retirees, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and their families. The agency employs about 18,000 people and its annual sales exceed $6 billion.
Employees Serviced by DLA: Civilian Federal employees who receive human resources servicing through the Defense Logistics Agency DO NOT need to submit supporting documentation if applying through merit promotion. Your record in Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) will be used to verify your eligibility. It is your responsibility to ensure the required documents are in your eOPF for verification purposes. If your documents are not in eOPF, you must submit them to the announcement you are applying for at time of application. Failure to submit all of the documents on time will result in automatic disqualification.
All current and former Federal employees must submit a copy of your latest SF-50 showing your tenure, grade and step, and type of position occupied (i.e., Excepted or Competitive).
TRAVEL REQUIRED
Not Required RELOCATION AUTHORIZED
No KEY REQUIREMENTS
Must be a United States citizen
Application materials must be received by 11:59PM EST on the closing date. DUTIES: Back to top
• Conducts quality assurance inspections and contractor surveillance.
• Provides comments and recommendations for additions, deletions, or changes to contractor services to ensure compliance with DeCA directives.
• Approves or rejects contractor’s work schedule and checks work for timeliness and quality performance.
• Maintains the store’s space allocations program by such duties as designating to the contractor proper item shelf locations when shelf tags are missing or otherwise not identifiable.
• Advises commissary or contracted order writers.
• Acts as the commissary manager’s representative during the night time hours for ensuring safety and security of government property. QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: Back to top
To qualify for this position, applicants must possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 level by closing date of this announcement. Education may not be substituted for experience.
Examples of specialized experience include:
• Conducting quality assurance inspections and contract surveillance duties of specified commissary or retail grocery contracted services.
• Applying retail grocery store administration policies and procedures as they relate to established contracts.
• Monitoring vendors and/or contractors in a retail setting to ensure proper inventory. .
Conditions of Employment:
• Work Schedule : PartTime not to exceed 64 hours biweekly.
• Tour of Duty : Irregular Schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) Costs : ARE NOT Authorized
• Position Sensitivity : Non-Sensitive
• Security Requirements : Not Applicable
• Overtime : Occasionally
• Temporary Duty (TDY) Travel : Occasionally
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) : Non-Exempt
• Bargaining Unit Position : Yes
• Drug Testing : Not Required
• Physical Requirement : Involves prolonged standing, stooping, kneeling, bending, and climbing. During inspections, there is a possibility of exposure to equipment noise and working around moving equipment (forklifts, pallet jacks, etc.) / Not Applicable
• Selective Service Requirement : All male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must be registered with the selective service system. Please visit https://www.sss.gov for more information.
• Obligated Position : No
Other Notes:
•Delegated Examining – Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement upon its closing for up to 90 days.
• Applicants selected from this announcement may be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
• Deliberate attempts to falsify your application information, such as copying portions of this job announcement into your resume, may result in you being removed from consideration for this position.
If you are selected for this position you will be asked to submit the OF-306, Declaration for Federal Employment. This form may be submitted with your application and other supporting documents.
HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:
Specifically you will be evaluated on the following competencies:
• Knowledge of quality assurance practices and procedures.
• Ability to perform clerical and administrative work.
• Ability to communicate.
REVIEW OF APPLICATION DOCUMENTS (FOR ALL APPLICANTS):
To determine if you meet the qualifications, requirements and quality of experience required for this position, we review your resume, supporting documents and responses to the questionnaire. The score you receive is a measure of the degree to which your background matches the competencies required. If, after this review, we determine that you inflated your qualifications and/or experience we can and will adjust your score to more accurately reflect your qualifications for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully as errors or omissions may affect your rating.
Based on the results of the evaluation process, we place those who apply under delegated examining procedures in one of the following quality categories:
Best-Qualified : Candidates who possess the type and quality of experience that substantially exceeds the position’s minimum qualifications, including all selective placement factors and appropriate quality ranking factors.
Highly-Qualified : Candidates who possess the type and quality of experience that exceeds the position’s minimum qualifications.
Qualified: Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications and are proficient in some but not all of the position’s requirements.
We send candidates in the Best-Qualified category to the hiring manager for employment consideration first. We send candidates in other categories to the hiring manager based on category rating procedures.
Veterans in the Best-Qualified category who (1) provide all applicable and required documents (See the Required Documents section for more information) and (2) meet all the positions’ requirements are referred before non-veteran candidates. If there are no veterans in the Best-Qualified category meeting these criteria, we refer non-veteran candidates for employment consideration.
Volunteer Experience : Your Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service program (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. BENEFITS: Back to top
The federal government offers a number of exceptional benefits to its employees. You may explore the major benefits offered to most federal employees at https://help.usajobs.gov/index.php/Pay_and_Benefits
OTHER INFORMATION:
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO VETERANS: The Office of Personnel Management has published the end date for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) as August 31, 2010. To receive veterans’ preference for service during the Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom era, you must have served for more than 180 days between September 11, 2001 and August 31, 2010 OR be in receipt of a campaign badge or expeditionary medal. The updated CFR language is available at: http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR ? Other qualifying eligibility for preference (e.g., disability) remains unchanged.
REGARDING INTERVIEWS: Interviews may be required for this position. Accommodations may be made to conduct telephonic interviews to preclude travel hardships for applicants.
Reemployed Annuitant: This position Does not meet criteria for re-employed annuitant.
The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/1400.25-V300.pdf
Reemployed Annuitant: A former Federal employee who has retired under either the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) is an Annuitant. An annuitant cannot be hired (i.e. reemployed) unless the vacant position meets the criteria in the Department of Defense (DOD) policy on employment of annuitants issued December 10, 2008. “Reemployed Annuitant: Does Not Meet Criteria” the vacancy does not meet the criteria for appointment of annuitants (irrespective of eligibility or qualifications). Annuitant applicants are advised, in accordance with DoD Policy, that further consideration for the vacancy is not permitted.
Individual with Financial Difficulty
https://hru.gov/Studio_Recruitment/tools/Mythbuster_on_Federal_Hiring_Policies.pdf
If you are using part-time work to qualify for this position, be sure your resume reflects the beginning and ending dates of your employment and the number of hours you worked per week.
