Securing Travel, Protecting People - At the Transportation Security Administration, you will serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. In cities across the country, you would secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways, and/or public transit systems, thus protecting America's transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movement for people and commerce.

Duties

This Human Resources Specialist position is located within Benefits and Retirement, Human Capital (HC), Enterprise Support (ES), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to: Researches and analyzes retirement and benefits law, regulations, and OPM guidance to address employee and management inquires and issues. Serves as a retirement counselor for employees to include Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs). Processes Retirement / Benefit transactions to include Retirement Applications, disability retirement applications, retirement estimates, death cases and Service credit deposit applications. Educates and provides training to field HR and employees to convey retirement information and changes to retirement/benefits law, regulations, etc. Knowledge of processing retirement related personnel transactions for federal benefits programs; FEHB, FEGLI and TSP. The major duties described above reflect the full performance level of this position. Typically, the lower pay band (G Band) performs the same duties but will receive more guidance and training; and/or projects/work assignments may be less complex.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for the SV-G Pay Band (equivalent to GS-11), you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SV-F or GS-9 Pay Band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. Specialize experience is defined as: Applying Federal laws, regulations and OPM guidelines related to employee benefits and retirements (e.g., Title 5 U.S.C., Title 5 CFR) in order to respond to inquiries and escalated issues; AND Analyzing and reconciling discrepancies or inconsistencies on benefits and creditable retirement service; AND Experience advising and processing on the full range of employee benefit programs including retirement and insurances; AND Developing and presenting retirement and benefit informational materials for communication to managers and employees. To qualify for the SV-H Pay Band (equivalent to GS-12), you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SV-G or GS-11 Pay Band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. Specialist experience is defined as: Applying Federal laws, regulations and OPM guidelines related to employee benefits and retirements (e.g., Title 5 U.S.C., Title 5 CFR) in order to respond to inquiries and escalated issues; AND Analyzing and reconciling discrepancies or inconsistencies on benefits and creditable retirement service; AND Advising on the full range of employee benefit programs including retirement and insurances; AND Presenting retirement and benefit informational materials for communication to managers and employees. Specialized experience with identifying retirement coverage errors and processing Law Enforcement Officer retirement is highly desirable. Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Resumes must include the following: Narrative description of duties with start and end dates (including the month and year) for work experience. State the number of hours worked in a position (i.e. full-time or part-time). If part-time, state the total number of hours worked per week. Performance level (i.e. band or grade) Utilizing the USAJOBS Resume Builder and completing all available fields is strongly encouraged. You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

Contacts

• Address ES - HUMAN CAPITAL 6595 Springfield Center Dr Springfield, VA 22150 US
• Name: HC ServeU Customer Care
• Email: [email protected]