Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities. Our highly-skilled, diverse, and innovative workforce creates a strong foundation of safety and security. Through the principles of humanity and normalcy, we develop good neighbors.

Duties

Responsible for performing a variety of reviews, audits, projects and training in support of the improvement of benefits management functions, practices, and services to enhance programs. Serves as a resident expert and technical advisor to Human Resource Specialists within the CBU: advising on and resolving unusual, difficult, and complex questions; and interpreting and resolving difficult processing, and/or procedural scenarios and issues. Responsible for policy development, and updates and issuances of agency guidance to staff at all levels of the agency, including the development of information for an agency benefits website. Serves as a BOP expert concerning retirement automated systems. Serves as an expert on identifying and analyzing complex system inconsistencies and evaluates automated systems to ensure current retirement related procedures are met.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is Required.
• See Special Conditions of Employment Section.

Qualifications

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education: There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position. Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience with resolving difficult and complex technical agency wide issues and advising other experts on how best to resolve issues, and interpret and apply Office of Personnel Management policy guidance on Retirement and Federal Employee Benefits programs. Experience in performing a variety of agency wide reviews, audits, and projects, and Retirement and Federal Employee Benefits training in support of the improvement of Federal Employee Benefits management functions, practice, and services. Experience with advanced topics related to all types of benefits to include but not limited to Service Computation Dates (SCD), Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), Federal Employees Group Life Insurance (FEGLI), Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Federal Long Term Care Insurance (FLTC), and civilian service and post-1956 military service deposits. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as number of hours worked per week) spent in the activities. **Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**

Education

See Qualifications Section for education requirements, if applicable.

ONLY if education is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verification of educational requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, Click Here.

Foreign Education: For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department of Education website: Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.

If you are selected for this position and qualified based on education (i.e. basic education requirement and/or substitution of education), you will be required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.

Contacts

• Address JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS Consolidated Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 United States
• Name: CSU
• Phone: 972-352-4200
• Email: [email protected]