The Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) works to promote safety, protect the environment, and conserve resources offshore through vigorous regulatory oversight and enforcement. For information about our bureau go to: http://www.bsee.gov/

Duties

This position is located within the Department of the Interior (DOI), Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), Associate Director for Administration, Human Resources Division (HRD), HR Benefits and Support Branch, Benefits and Systems Unit. This position is responsible for carrying out a variety of benefits functions and advises management and counsels employees on such programs as health and life insurance, leave, Thrift Saving Plan (TSP) and other related benefits. At the full performance level (GS-13) the major duties of this position include but are not limited to the following: 1. Serves as the technical expert and provides guidance and assistance to managers, supervisors, and employees in executing a variety of employee benefits' programs, which may include workers' compensation, retirement, health and life benefits, Thrift Savings Program (TSP), and Long-Term Care Program. 2. Handles correspondence to employees/survivors on complex, delicate, or highly contested determinations of benefits eligibility and/or retirement coverage (e.g., FERCCA cases, VERA/VSIPs, employee death, re-employed annuitants, etc.). 3. Advises, interprets, designs, implements, and assesses benefits program policies and initiatives. 4. Responsible for carrying out benefits activities and providing advice to managers, supervisors, and employees concerning the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. 5. Serves as the workers' compensation program manager in formulating, implementing, and managing the full range of policies, programs, and procedures. 6. Provides advice on/calculates retirement determinations in complex cases, such as re-employed annuitants and disability retirements; provides advice and guidance on similarly complex entitlement determinations where the benefit program and/or requirements are vague or difficult to apply specific cases. 7. Responsible for conducting periodic data integrity audits and for trouble-shooting areas of non-compliance in order to identify fundamental causes of such errors and to propose corresponding solutions. Salary Range Information (Per Annum): *First time hires to the federal government typically start at the beginning salary in the range for their respective grade level. Sterling, VA GS-12: $99,200 - $128,956 GS-13:$117,962 - $153,354 Jefferson, LA: GS-12: $86,962 - $113,047 GS-13: $103,409 - $134,435 BSEE has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework in accordance with agency policy. This vacancy may be used to fill additional positions as vacancies become available.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, you must meet the Specialized Experience for the grade to which you are applying. GS-12 Specialized Experience: To qualify for the GS-12, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully, the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: Administering the benefits program and providing advice to managers and employees concerning complex reemployment benefit provisions; AND Writing correspondence to employees/survivors on complex, delicate, or highly contested determinations of benefits eligibility; AND Providing guidance on traumatic and occupational injury claims; AND Providing advice on/calculating retirement determinations in complex cases, such as disability retirements; providing advice and guidance on similarly complex entitlement determinations where the benefit program and/or requirements are vague or difficult to apply specific cases. MUST MEET ALL FOUR. GS-13 Specialized Experience: To qualify for the GS-13, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully, the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: Serving as the technical expert and providing guidance and assistance to managers, supervisors, and employees in executing a variety of employee benefits' programs, which may include workers' compensation, retirement, health and life benefits, Thrift Savings Program (TSP), and Long Term Care Program; AND Serving as the workers' compensation program manager in formulating, implementing, and managing the full range of policies, programs, and procedures; AND Carrying out benefits activities and providing advice to managers, supervisors, and employees concerning the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act; AND Handling correspondence to employees/survivors on complex, delicate, or highly contested determinations of benefits eligibility and/or retirement coverage (e.g., FERCCA cases, VERA/VSIPs, employee death, re-employed annuitants, etc.); AND Providing advice on/calculating retirement determinations in complex cases, such as re-employed annuitants and disability retirements; providing advice and guidance on similarly complex entitlement determinations where the benefit program and/or requirements are vague or difficult to apply specific cases. MUST MEET ALL FIVE. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.asp All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Merit Promotion candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement 45600 Woodland Road Sterling, VA 20166 US
• Name: Ericka Witham
• Email: [email protected]