Job opening: Supervisory Human Resources Specialist
Salary: $104 604 - 135 987 per year
Published at: Jan 02 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Office of People Science (OPS), Human Resources (HR), and Quality and Information Services. You will serve as a Supervisory Human Resources (HR) Specialist over the Quality and Information Services team. Responsible for facilitating and resolving human resources issues with a wide variety of VA officials and external sources.
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/08/2024.
Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.
Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.
The BASIC REQUIREMENT for the HR Specialist GS-0201 series is presumed met if found qualified at the GS-0201-7 level and above.
To qualify for this position at the GS-14 level, you must meet one of the following listed Criteria:
Criteria 1- Graduate Degree and Specialized Experience: Successful completion of a graduate level degree or higher and three years of progressive specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level. Such experience may be gained in administrative, professional, technical or other responsible work positions in the public (i.e., Government or military) or private sector. Qualifying specialized experience includes:
Resolves quality issues and functionality of related HR systems; reviews and audits Personnel Action Requests (PARs) to ensure the accuracy of the nature of action, authority code, position descriptions, remarks, promotions, transfers, special salary determinations, and corrections to employee records.
Resolves compensation issues and problems pertaining to pay setting.
Provides guidance on a broad spectrum of human resource issues covering all aspects of Merit Promotion and Delegated Examining Unit (DEU) functions.
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Criteria 2- Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in federal service that demonstrates HR management knowledge, concepts and principles and the performance of work in one or more of the HR specialty areas. Such experience may be gained in administrative, professional, technical or other responsible work positions in the public (i.e., Government or military) or private sector. Qualifying specialized experience includes:
Acts as liaison between the team and other HR specialty areas to resolve quality issues and functionality of related HR systems.
Reviews and audits Personnel Action Requests (PARs) to ensure the accuracy of the nature of action, authority code, position descriptions, remarks, promotions, transfers, special salary determinations, and corrections to employee records.
Resolves complex and conventional compensation issues and problems pertaining to pay setting.
Provides authoritative guidance on a broad spectrum of human resource issues covering all aspects of Merit Promotion and Delegated Examining Unit (DEU) functions.
Education
Qualifying education for the GS-0201 series includes courses and programs in HR, HR development, HR management, business, business management/administration, industrial relations, labor relations, industrial psychology, organizational psychology, organizational development, management, organizational behavior, pre-law/law, legal studies, health care management/administration, public administration, public policy, human services, leadership and/or humanities.
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Reference: VA Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix F1; Human Resources Specialist Qualification Standards GS-0201. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office.
Contacts
- Address DAS Information and Technology - 103
810 Vermont Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20420
US
- Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
- Phone: (844)456-5208
- Email: [email protected]