The Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services (FFAS) mission area of the United States Department of Agriculture is made up of three agencies. Those agencies include the Farm Service Agency, the Foreign Agricultural Service and the Risk Management Agency. Human resources for the FFAS mission area are provided by the Human Resource Division of the Farm Service Agency.
Our job is people. Our mission is to help attract, motivate, develop, retain, and reward our agencies' most valuable resource: our employees.
We: - provide quality, efficient client service
- develop and maintain strategic partnerships with management and employees
- promote diversity of individuals and ideas
- value empowered, motivated employees; and
- develop innovative ideas and best practices.
HR develops policies and administers programs in the following functional areas:
- Employee and labor relations programs, including:
- grievances, appeals and complaints
- adverse and disciplinary actions
- suitability and drug testing
- ethics, financial disclosure and Hatch Act
- labor-management relations
- Alternate Dispute Resolution
- employee relations and services including intra-management consultation and communications.
- Classification, organization and employment functions including:
- organizational development and position management
- position classification, including classification appeals
- public trust and security clearance determination
- recruitment and placement
- promotion, including merit promotions
- employee service information, including foreign service
- payroll personnel processing
- Performance management, awards and benefits program, including:
- performance evaluation and standards
- tours of duty, leave administration and T&A reports
- employee suggestion program
- benefits administration (life insurance, health benefits, TSP)
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Employee development and training program including:
- design, development and implementation of all training programs
- conducting needs assessments and/or needs analysis to first determine training needs
- individual training plans and skills training, including overseas personnel
- evaluation of training activities
- coordinate long-term training opportunities
- new employee orientation programs
- language training and incentives program
- training/meeting planning and coordination
- approval and processing of training requests
- maintain training database system
- maintain necessary records and files and generate reports.
- Work force planning and analysis including:
- Human capital management plans
- Competitive and strategic sourcing
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