About the Position: This Position is located in the Human Resources Department at Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor, WA. This employee works normal business hours Monday through Friday. The employee serves as the HR advisor for a military treatment facility with over 130 Defense Health Agency GS employees. Advanced In-Hire MAY Be authorized. Advanced Leave Accrual: May be Authorized. Student Loan Repayment May be Authorized.

Duties

Provide advice and guidance to managers and supervisors on issues relevant to human resources and workforce planning, surveys, and results. Provide recommendations on workforce planning and utilization involving staffing requests, reorganizations, mission changes, manpower allocation readjustments and other related functions. Conduct Organization studies include clerical, technical, administrative, and professional health care support activities. Work with Classification Specialists to ensure that proposed job description duties are supportable and justified from a workload basis. Analyze salary and occupation related data from other federal treatment facilities, private sector institutions, professional societies, etc. to determine what local market or representative salary rates are for like positions. Maintain ongoing contact with departments to determine recruitment needs and sets appropriate recruitment goal in concert with medical center needs. Conduct studies and analyzes findings and make recommendations when providing staffing data analyses and reports.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Appointment to this position is subject to a one-year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.
• This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 05% of the time.
• This position has a mandatory seasonal influenza vaccination requirement and is subject to annual vaccination.

Qualifications

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. Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA)Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian EmployeeDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceExecutive Order (E.O.) 12721Interagency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI)Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleReinstatementVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA) In order to qualify, you must meet the Education and/or 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. This Position is being filled at the GS-09 target GS-11 level. Duties described reflect the full performance GS-11 level. Duties will be performed in a developmental capacity under supervision. Management may select at either grade with the full performance being at the GS-11 level. Specialized Experience GS-09: One year of specialized experience which includes: performing work involved in various phases of human resources management interpreting regulatory material related to Human Resources; providing technical support and advisory services to Management in any human resources specialty area such as: classification actions, personnel actions, and in and out processing pre-employment processes (i.e., Drug Testing, Security Clearance, Pre-employment physical ,Credentialing, etc.) etc.; utilizing automated systems and/or databases to track personnel actions. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07). OR Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Human Resources Management or Business Administration. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages. Specialized Experience GS-11: One year of specialized experience which includes: performing work involved in various phases of human resources management interpreting regulatory material related to Human Resources; analyzing requests for personnel actions to ensure accuracy of information's; proving updates to Managers on recruitment and other personnel actions in any of the following classification actions, manpower allocation incentive awards program, determine validity of special salary requests (i.e., recruitment bonuses, retention bonuses, special salary rates, etc.) etc.; providing guidance to Senior Leaders, Managers Supervisors and employees on status and requirements in completing personnel actions. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph. D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as Human Resources Management or Business Administration. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: HR Data AnalysisOral CommunicationStrategic Workforce PlanningWritten Communication Time in Grade Requirement GS-09: 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-07). Time in Grade Requirement GS-11: 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-09).

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.

Contacts

• Address JT-DHA-DD83ED DHA PUGET SOUND MKT-OAK HARBOR DO NOT MAIL Oak Harbor, WA 98278 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk