Chief Human Capital Officer

Chief Human Capital Officer Duties

The Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO) leads the development of human resources policies and programs in the operating units and offices of the Agency, assuring integration with all other functions of administration in fulfillment of the Agency mission. The CHCO oversees all functions of FEMA's human capital management to include:

• Directs, manages, and oversees human capital operations to ensure the Agency's personnel management programs are integrated with and serve, reflect, and accomplish the mission and goals of the Agency.
• Provides oversight of the day-to-day human capital and payroll operations for a geographically dispersed population of approximately 20,000+ employees, as well as management advisory services specializing in the areas of recruitment, staffing, compensation, reduction-in-force, automated HR systems, and HR policies and programs.
• Builds and managing a workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensuring that employees are appropriately recruited, selected, trained, appraised, and rewarded, and taking action to address performance and conduct problems.
• Serves as a change agent in bringing about strategic change to meet organizational goals. This would entail establishing an organizational vision in conjunction with the Agency's vision and mission statements and implementing it in a continuous changing environment.
• Advises Agency leadership on the scope and coverage of the FEMA personnel programs and how to best align and integrate human capital strategies and policies with the Agency's and Department's goals and program planning.
• Plans and directs the execution of Agency-wide personnel management programs comprising a full range of major personnel service functions of broad scope and a high degree of complexity.
• Executes human capital policies and programs through subordinate division chiefs, at headquarters, regional, and field offices, and Agency management officials and supervisors.
• Responsible for formulating and implementing Agency-wide personnel policies and programs.
• Serves as the Agency's authoritative leader and expert on all issues pertaining to personnel management, advising top Agency officials on the personnel management needs of the Agency as a whole and how it affects organizational performance of staff, policies, and programmatic issues.
• Shares responsibility for and involvement in public advocacy of the Agency's human capital policies and programs.
• Provides advice, counsel and leadership, technical guidance to Agency officials on personnel management policy and requirements that must be satisfied in management determinations, organizational changes, and realignments involving their respective programs.
• Provides leadership and direction in preserving the integrity of the merit principles while conforming to the new guidelines for streamlined and efficient personnel programs. Serves as the FEMA representative to the Department's Human Capital Leadership Council (HCLC).
• Maintains liaison with the Office of Personnel Management in matters relating to the development, interpretation, and application of personnel regulations and procedures.
• Develops, plans, and establishes standards to provide for effective analysis and improvement of the Agency organization and implements plans for the systematic and continuing evaluation of personnel policies, program objectives, at all Agency organizational levels. Assuring that these objectives are understood and executed effectively, that they are sufficient to accomplish their intended purpose, and that all phases of the program meet statutory, regulatory, policy, and administrative requirements and standards of Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, or any other Federal agency having personnel management jurisdiction.
• Represents the Agency at meetings, including those with Congress, Congressional committees, Office of Management and Budget, Office of Personnel Management, other federal agencies, state and local governments, exercising authority to present the view of the FEMA Administrator, Deputy Administrator and Associate Administrator, Mission Support on human capital matters.