Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities. Our highly-skilled, diverse, and innovative workforce creates a strong foundation of safety and security. Through the principles of humanity and normalcy, we develop good neighbors.

Duties

The Human Resource Specialist performs administrative Human Resource (HR) functions in furtherance of the mission and objectives of the Consolidated Processing Unit (CPU). This position provides HR services related to personnel/payroll processing, HR record keeping and maintenance and operation of a Help Desk for all Human Resource Departments (HRD) and staff within the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Reviews and processes requests for payroll and/or personnel actions, ensuring all requests include any and all necessary supporting documentation and comply with all human resources laws, rules, regulations, policies and procedures. May be called upon to provide input into HR related policies for the BOP, review proposed guidance and regulations for impact on the BOP and provide training for staff on HR information systems and payroll/personnel processing within the BOP.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is Required.
• See Special Conditions of Employment Section.

Qualifications

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education:One full year of graduate level education or superior academic achievement. Graduate education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position, and this is typically in or related to the work of the position. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience that demonstrates the ability to provide human resource support, advice and guidance in areas such as personnel actions, time and attendance, payroll and processing of benefits. Experience with completing and filing various human resource forms/documentation, providing information, assistance, and performing various human resource support functions. Experience with utilizing a personnel action guide to research, prepare and process various personnel actions and maintaining related files. Experience with identifying and correcting personnel actions errors in an automated human resource personnel processing system. OR Combination of Education and Experience: Have a combination of education and experience. This experience must have equipped you with the specific qualifications to perform the major duties of this position as described above. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities. **Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**

Education

See Qualifications Section for education requirements, if applicable.

ONLY if education is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verification of educational requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, Click Here.

Foreign Education: For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department of Education website: Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.

Superior Academic Achievement. (S.A.A.) applicants MUST provide a transcript in order to be considered under S.A.A. 

In order to be creditable under this provision, superior academic achievement must have been gained in a curriculum that is qualifying for the position to be filled.

If you are selected for this position and qualified based on education (i.e. basic education requirement and/or substitution of education), you will be required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.

Contacts

• Address JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS Consolidated Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 United States
• Name: CSU
• Phone: 972-352-4200
• Email: [email protected]