Job Details
** Supervisory Food Services Specialist (Food Service Administrator)**
**Department of Justice**
**Location**
1 vacancy in the following location:
** Relocation expenses reimbursed**
Yes Reimbursement is authorized for travel and transportation for this position.
** Telework eligible**
No
** Clarification from the agency**
BOP Employees nationwide DOJ Surplus and Displaced (CTAP) Employees in the local commuting area. Duty Location: FCC Hazelton, WV
**Duties**
** Summary**
You can have a meaningful career with an agency that truly values a diverse workforce. You will find a diverse workforce employed from entry level jobs to senior management positions. We protect public safety by ensuring federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, and provide reentry programming. Employees at correctional facilities perform correctional work regardless of their specific occupation.
**Responsibilities**
The incumbent is responsible for the preparation and serving of all inmate meals (to include medical, religious and regular diets) on a daily basis. The incumbent helps develop, maintain, and monitor goals and objectives established to accomplish the Food Service mission of the Bureau of Prisons. The Food Service Administrator communicates, reinforces, monitors policies/procedures and provides technical and supportive services toward helping the institution to maintain high quality food programs. The incumbent must know and understand the methods and objectives of custody and discipline as it applies to inmates and must also be familiar with Bureau and institutional policies, rules, procedures and practices.
Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.
**Travel Required**
Occasional travel - Travel may be required for training and/or work related issues.
** Supervisory status**
Yes
** Promotion Potential**
13
**Requirements**
** Conditions of Employment**
+ U.S. Citizenship is Required.
+ See Special Conditions of Employment Section. **The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)** provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing that you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP eligibility, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement; and 3) you are found well qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and score 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notification of CTAP eligibility with your application. Additional information about CTAP eligibility is at:
** Qualifications**
To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements:
**Education:**
There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position.
**Experience:**
You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) to perform successfully the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled.
Such experience must have demonstrated:
+ Experience in managing a complex, diversified and comprehensive food program which includes planning, controlling and evaluating food services.
+ Experience in planning the layout and design of the department and determining equipment requirements.
+ Experience in providing specialized programs and functions such as satellite feeding, medical/religious diets, and vocational training).
+ Experience in supervising the operation of a large subsistence storeroom plus large meat and vegetable coolers and monitoring the quality and condition of the products upon delivery.
+ Experience in developing detailed estimates and initial requests for funds required to operate the department and monitoring the expenditure of all funds. Credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.
**Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**
**Education**
See Qualifications Section for education requirements, **if applicable**.
**ONLY** if education is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verification of educational requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, .
*Foreign Education:* For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department of Education website: .
If you are selected for this position and qualified based on education (i.e. basic education requirement and/or substitution of education), you will be required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.
**Additional information**
This position IS NOT included in the bargaining unit.
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3307, a maximum entry age of 36 has been established for initial appointment to a position in a Bureau of Prisons institution.
The representative rate for this position is $101,358 per annum ($48.57 per hour).
**Special Conditions of Employment Section:**
Initial appointment to a supervisory/managerial position requires a one-year probationary period.
The incumbent is subject to geographic relocation to meet the needs of the agency.
Appointment is subject to satisfactory completion of a urinalysis, physical, and background investigation. All applicants are subject to National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and credit checks.
All applicants not currently working in an institution will be required to complete a qualification inquiry regarding convictions of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence in order to be authorized to carry a firearm.
The Core Value Assessment (CVA) is an in-person assessment that must be facilitated at a Bureau of Prisons Human Resource Servicing office. On the day of the scheduled interview, a CVA will be administered. The applicant assessment must be completed within a 70 minute time period and a passing score must be obtained. Further employment consideration will not be extended if the applicant fails to complete the examination or fails to achieve a passing score. Note: The Core Value Assessment will not be administered to current BOP employees.
Successful completion of the "Introduction to Correctional Techniques," three-week training course at Glynco, Georgia is required.
The addresses listed on the USAJOBS account/resume must be the primary residence at the time of application. You may be required to provide proof of residence.
Additional selections may be made if vacancies occur within the life of the certificate.
***As required by Executive Order 14043, Federal employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVI