This position serves as the first line supervisor within the HR, Strategy, Development, and Experience teams. Responsibilities include strategic HR planning for the HRSC and its client organizations, overseeing the development of HR talent, and evaluating the HR employee experience with an emphasis on recruitment, retention, and staff wellbeing. This position is critical in executing HR Strategy, ensuring compliance and effectiveness, and leading HR staff development and wellness initiatives.

Duties

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: HR Specialist Total Rewards Major Duties Include: Planning and coordination of subordinate activities to ensure adherence to oversight and compliance standards. Preparing performance standards and evaluating performance of subordinates, ensuring reasonable equity of standards and rating techniques; assigning work; giving advice, counsel, or instruction to employees; interviewing candidates for positions and making appointment, promotion, or reassignment of subordinate nonsupervisory employees; hearing and resolving grievances. Serving as a strategic advisor, focused on embedding compliance and oversight into the core of HR strategies. Managing HR partnerships with an emphasis on strategic HR issues, recruitment, and talent management, ensuring that these processes are compliant with oversight mandates. Conducting environmental scans and performance audits and supporting decision-making that fortifies the office's commitment to oversight. Leading the charge in creating policies and programs that not only enhance employee wellbeing but also reflect the organization's compliance standards. Cultivating a performance-driven and positive work environment that aligns with high-reliability organizational principles and strict compliance standards, offering targeted HR guidance to sustain the organization's health and regulatory compliance. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Compressed/Flexible: May be available Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Selected candidate will be required to secure VA/federal office space prior to receiving an official offer. Virtual: This is a virtual position. Remote: This is not a remote position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Human Resources Specialist/PD090390 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Physical Requirements: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment. A pre-placement physical examination is not required.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/04/2024. 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: experience that has provided you with knowledge of HR laws, regulations, policies, and processes to serve as an advisor in the areas of human resources strategy, compliance and effectiveness, and HR staff development; researching complex human resources laws and applicable regulations and providing guidance to ensure HR processes and activities are compliant with oversight mandates; identifying and delivering HR training based on completed needs assessment. ~OR~ 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: experience applying advanced principles, concepts, regulations, and practices in the areas of human resources strategy, HR compliance and effectiveness, and HR staff development; ensuring that departmental HR policy and program guidance meet statutory and regulatory requirements and are in conformance with principles of effective HR management; facilitating and resolving complex human resources issues; and developing HR training responsive to identified needs and workforce trends.

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 VA Human Resources Service Center 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Cassie Noon
• Phone: 412-588-3926
• Email: [email protected]