About the Position: Serves as an Human Resources Specialist responsible for providing technical advice and guidance to senior leadership, managers and supervisors in areas of staffing, recruitment and placement, position management and classification, foreign labor, management and employee relations (performance management, benefits and entitlements, awards, permanent change of duty station), professional and leader development, and the processing of complex personnel actions.

Duties

Serves as a Human Resources Specialist for the Civilian Human Resource in G-1 at HQ, U.S. Army South. Provides direction to management concerning recruitment strategies for all covered positions General Schedule (GS), General Grade (GG) and Foreign Service Nationals (FSN). Advises managers in developing, prioritizing, and/or weighing skill sets used for vacancy announcements and coordinating with Civilian Human Resources Agency (CHRA) as needed. Serves as a human resources advisor of the FSN Program for staffing requirements, resources, and problems involving a high degree of complexity. Provides position management and classification support to assigned organization(s) for employees assigned to various personnel systems. Provides management-employee relations support to assigned manager and supervisors and provides overall advice and assistance on management-employee relations, discipline, adverse actions, grievances, and performance management. Ensures accuracy and completeness of permanent change of station (PCS) orders in accordance with regulatory guidance. Responsible for overall administration of the awards, decorations, polices and programs.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must obtain and maintain an Official U.S. Passport.
• Position involves travel up to 50% of the time.
• Must obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
• A Term probationary maybe required.
• This is a TERM Position not to exceed 2 years.

Qualifications

This is a TERM Position not to exceed 2 years. Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. **Position may be filled as a Term appointment NTE 2 years. Term appointments may be extended beyond six (6) years, up to eight (8) years. With DoD approval, term appointments may be extended beyond eight (8) years.** Position may be made permanent without further competition. **Current permanent Federal employees (to include permanent Army employees) applying for a term appointment will be appointed/converted into a term appointment with no statutory return rights back to a permanent position." Current Army employee's can apply to announcement NCFR248639497097R 30 Percent or More Disabled VeteransCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Interagency Career Transition Assistance PlanMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligibleReinstatement In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Specialized Experience: One year specialized experience which includes 1) Providing advisory services on complex human resource functions such as recruitment, classification, position management procedures, or labor and/or employee relations; 2) Providing technical advice/ recommendations for human resource problems and interpretation of policies and regulations; 3) Communicating orally and in writing to provide status/staff reports and correspondence to managers. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Labor RelationsOral CommunicationPersonnel and Human ResourcesStaffing and Recruiting Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).

Contacts

• Address FR-APF-WJMW99 MAIN CMD POST, US ARMY SOUTH DO NOT MAIL Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk