You will serve as a HUMAN RESOURCES ASSISTANT (EMPLOYEE BENEFITS/ OA) in the Department of Navy Civilian Benefits Center of OCHR NORFOLK OPERATIONS CENTER. ***This Job Opportunity Announcement is using an additional online assessment tool to evaluate applicants. Please review the HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED, HOW TO APPLY, and WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT sections below for instructions.***

Duties

You will review and resolve problems regarding FEHB, FEGLI, FEDVIP, and TSP enrollments. Researches and applies laws, regulations and policies relating to personnel programs. You will monitor employees in a non-pay status, ensures benefits are handled appropriately and takes any required action and resolves any problems. You will determine DCPDS coding errors that affect benefits and make recommendations to processors and supervisors on correcting the record. You will counsel employees about FEGLI Option C benefits and processes FEGLI Option C dependent death claims. You will review, certify, and process designation of beneficiary forms. You will counsel employees on Living Benefits and Assignment of Life insurance. You will counsel employees on workers' compensation on the cost of FEGLI Basic and optional coverage depending on their election as a Compensationer. You will review employee's service to determine employee's correct retirement and benefit coverage. You will counsel CSRS employees on procedures and application to make voluntary contributions.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-04 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience with initiating or adding HR related information into documents, reports and/or automated personnel systems for employee benefits. Experience with performing data entry and reconciliation in an automated personnel system to process various types of personnel actions, retrieve and analyze information, generate documents, records, and/or reports for benefits programs. Experience with electronically maintaining and filing personnel records to support employee benefits operations. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess 4 years above high school, or combinations of education and experience that equate to 100% of the requirement.

Any claims you make in your resume or assessment questionnaire regarding education or degrees MUST be supported by submitting with your application official or unofficial transcripts or a list of courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned issued from your school.

Contacts

• Address OCHR NORFOLK OPERATIONS CENTER Norfolk Naval Shipyard Bldg 491 Portsmouth, VA 23705 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]