Working at ACL

All of ACL's open opportunities can be found on USAJOBS, the official employment site of the United States federal government. 

Open Positions

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IT Specialist (SYSANALYSIS) - GS 14 - Closes 12/13/2023

As an IT Specialist (SYSANALYSIS), you will use your knowledge of and experience to optimize business results and customer experience by:

• Consulting with ACL Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)/ Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and product customers to assess and anticipate current and future product requirements and functionality to develop a long-term product plan.
• Assisting with and preparing technical need requirements for enterprise acquisition documents, Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE), statement of work (SOW) and Performance Work Statements (PWS) for contract review, solicitation, and award.
• Leads acquisition teams addressing major procurements representing significant technology upgrades or unprecedented approaches.
• Assessing new system design methodologies to improve system performance and quality, measuring risk and presenting recommendations for adoption of new methodologies.
• Defining product strategy and roadmap and directing the creative process of generating, developing, and curating new ideas in order to determine which ideas should be promoted into features to push the product strategy forward that will achieve key objectives for the product line and business.
• Consulting with internal and external customers and stakeholders to refine functional requirements into design specifications representing new approaches or priorities.

This position is posted on USA Jobs. 

HHS-ACL-MP-24-12221477 - Open to the following:

• Current and former competitive service federal employees 
• People with disabilities ("Schedule A")
• Veterans and military spouses
• Family members of a federal employee or uniformed service member who is or was, working overseas.
• Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) - Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.
• Certain current or former term or temporary federal employees of a land or base management agency.
• People who have served two years with the Peace Corps or one year with AmeriCorps VISTA
• People eligible under a special authority not listed above, but defined in the federal hiring regulations.

Information about the eligibility criteria for these categories can be found on USA Jobs. 

Community Living Program Specialist - GS 13 - Closes 12/08/2023 (or after 100 applicants, whichever comes first)

As a Community Living Program Specialist, you will use your knowledge of and experience to optimize business results and customer experience by:

• Developing replies to correspondence with respect to policy interpretation and a wide range of discretionary and mandatory grants program-related inquiries, problems and concerns of a highly complex nature from the Congress, the White House, key States and local officials, special interest groups and the general public.
• Providing authoritative advice on the interpretation of federal laws, regulations, and policies as they pertain to assigned program activities.
• Advising and providing guidance to competitively funded grantees in understanding and implementing new and existing program policy to ensure development and maintenance of an effective and productive program.
• Monitoring grants and contracts to ensure implementation of requirements to determine compliance with the work plans, as well as project progress toward approved work program goals.
• Analyzing and evaluating methods and techniques to compile, analyze, evaluate and summarize data, identify problems, analyze alternatives, draw conclusions, and recommend solutions for discretionary training and technical assistance and capacity building programs.

This position is posted on USA Jobs. 

HHS-ACL-DE-24-12214045 - Open to all U.S. citizens

Information about the eligibility criteria for these categories can be found on USA Jobs. 

Eligibility

Some positions are open to all U.S. citizens, while others may be open only to people who meet the criteria for special hiring authorities, such as:

• Current and former competitive service federal employees 
• People with disabilities ("Schedule A")
• Veterans and military spouses
• Family members of a federal employee or uniformed service member who is or was, working overseas.
• Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) - Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.
• Certain current or former term or temporary federal employees of a land or base management agency.
• People who have served two years with the Peace Corps or one year with AmeriCorps VISTA
• People eligible under a special authority not listed above, but defined in the federal hiring regulations.

Some jobs are posted under multiple announcements - you may apply to any/all for which you meet the eligibility criteria. 

How to Apply 

Once you have identified a position on USAJOBS to which you would like to apply, complete and submit the online application following the instructions noted in the How to Apply tab of the job announcement. (New users must create a USAJOBS account before applying.)

Please note:  You must submit a complete application package that includes all required supporting documents (e.g. resume, SF-50, veterans preference documents, transcripts, etc.) before the closing date of the announcement to ensure full consideration. You can find the list of documents required for each posting in the “How To Apply” section of the vacancy announcement(s).

This agency provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and/or hiring process, please contact the HHS Staffing, Recruitment and Operations Center Help Desk at SROCHelpDesk@hhs.gov. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

Information for People with Disabilities

If you are a person with a disability, you may be eligible for a special hiring authority, known as “Schedule A.” Schedule A gives federal agencies an optional, and potentially quicker, way to hire people with disabilities. It offers applicants an exception to the traditional hiring process. 

To be eligible for Schedule A, you must provide a "proof of a disability" letter stating that you have an intellectual disability, severe physical disability or psychiatric disability. You can get this letter from your doctor, a licensed medical professional, a licensed vocational rehabilitation specialist, or any federal, state, or local agency that issues or provides disability benefits.

If you have your Schedule A letter, you may submit your letter and resume directly to ACL’s Selective Placement Program Coordinator, Cory Gilbertson, at cory.gilbertson@acl.hhs.gov. (You also may apply to the vacancy announcements above.) 

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's  ABCs of SCHEDULE A  fact sheet has additional information about the Schedule A process, along with tips for applying for a federal position under the Schedule A authority.

Internship opportunities

Learn about the ACL Volunteer Internship Program.