Policy Advisor

Policy Advisor

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Summary

The incumbent serves as a Policy Advisor on one of several formal policy teams within the Division of Policy Development responsible for providing analysis, advice, and consultation to the Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary on current public policy, national policy priorities, national

policy collaboration, national policy development, and program policy coordination on a variety of employment and employment-related policies for individuals with disabilities.

Duties

As an Policy Advisor at the GS-0301-12 grade level, some of your typical work assignments include:

Serves as a Policy Advisor responsible for providing analysis, advice, and consultation to the Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary on current public policy, national policy priorities, national policy collaboration, national policy development, and program policy coordination on a variety of employment and employment-related policies for individuals with disabilities.

Interacts with customers of the service systems that serve people with disabilities with their advocates and other external public constituents and experts in collecting information on national disability policies.

Performs a wide range of duties and responsibilities such as evaluating and presenting divergent opinions affecting disability employment policy issues and defining and describing feasible options including the impact of their adoption.

Attends consultations, meetings, and conferences with public and private constituents and experts, advocacy groups DOL and other Federal agency officials, staff in State and local organizations to obtain information on disability employment issues; draft summaries of meetings, relevant analyses, and policy recommendations.

Participates with senior-level policy staff in the analysis of proposed legislation and legislative proposals to identify existing gaps and anomalies; points out problems not resolvable administratively; evaluates the effect of changes to the various programs and systems.

Evaluates the effect of proposed and adopted legislation on different levels and the services/systems available to individuals with disabilities and determines administrative feasibility; and drafts reports and analyses suitable to the assignment at hand for supervisory review.