Social Worker (Child Welfare Worker)

Summary

This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southwest Region, Division of Human Services in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You will provide essential social casework services to Native American Indian children, individuals, elderly, and families. This is a Bargaining Unit position, for more information see USA Jobs What are bargaining units?

Duties

• Works in conjunction with the Supervisory Social Worker in program planning developing, and monitoring of child protection services.
• Serves as an Awarding Official Technical Representative for Social Service and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) contracts and grants.
• Provides critical protective services to children vulnerable adults and the elderly to include protective service investigations, conducting risk and safety assessments, and case management services.
• Arranges for foster care placements, institutional placements, and out-of-home placements based on the outcome of a protective service investigation.
• Provides technical assistance in the development of protective service teams.
• Assists in reviewing, researching and responding to incoming ICWA notices within a regulatory timeframe.
• Enters all received ICWA notices into the Bureau’s case management system on a regular basis.
• Reviews and consolidates received ICWA reports and seeks clarification from tribes as needed.
• Assists with policy development surrounding all subcomponents of a Human Services program.

Education

If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement. If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society. One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school’s definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study. If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: FOREIGN EDUCATION

Required Documents

• The following documents are required for this position: Resume which details work experience including dates worked (mm/yy-mm/yy); position title; position series and grade (if federal service); work schedule; hours worked per week; relevant duties performed; supervisor with contact
• Information, and 3 professional references and contact information (Do not include current/former supervisors), etc Please limit your resume to no more than 2 pages.
• If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
• On-line Assessment Questionnaire Transcripts (if using education to qualify)
• Unofficial transcripts are acceptable; however, an official transcript may be requested at a later time. Veteran's documentation
• (if applicable) VA letter on VA letterhead stating your overall combined rating, SF-15, DD-214 (Member 4 Copy Only) reflecting an honorable discharge and dates of active duty military service.
• Authority documentation (if applying under a special hiring authority) BIA Form 4432 The
• Form BIA-4432 must be completed as stated in the
• Instructions on the
• Form and this form with must be submitted with your application for
• Federal employment (if claiming
• Performance Appraisal (if applying under the Land Management Flexibility Act) Current & Former Federal Employees.
• If you are a current career or career-conditional
• Federal employee OR a former
• Federal employee who has reinstatement eligibility you must submit the following by the closing date of this announcement, or you will not receive consideration as such: A copy of a recent SF-50 "Notification of
• Action" documenting proof of competitive status, tenure, position title, occupational series, grade level and step.
• If you are applying for a higher grade, please provide the SF-50 form which shows the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade.
• If you have promotion potential in any of your positions, please provide an SF-50 stating your highest full performance level; and Due Weight for Performance Appraisals and Awards: Your most recent Performance Appraisal (if you do not have
• Your most recent performance appraisal, please submit an explanation as to why it is unavailable); and
• If applicable, a list of any awards you received in the last 5 years (i.e., superior performance awards, special act or achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.).
• Click here for information see Reading your SF-50 to determine your service and appointment typeALL DOCUMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 11:59 PM Eastern Time ON THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.
• If your application package is incomplete in any way, you will not be considered for this position, and requests for extensions will not be granted.
• Please double check your application package before you submit it.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE SOLICITED OR ACCEPTED BY THIS OFFICE.