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

This position is located in the Consolidated Benefits Unit (CBU) of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Under the guidance and direction of the Deputy Chief, CBU, this position falls into program development, implementation of employee benefits programs, and providing benefit services for all staff of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Serves as an agency expert in CSRS and FERS retirement issues and develops, as well as monitors the Bureau’s retirement policy. Responsible for tracking mandatory retirements for issuance of notice letters, developing information and application packets, counseling staff about retirement and other benefits issues, assisting survivors of deceased employees with death claims and processing. Provides advice to the Central Processing Unit and individual agency staff about benefits issues related to life events, creditable service, law enforcement coverage and eligibility, and other complex benefit issues.

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. NOTE: Graduate education must provide the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in the normal line of progress for the occupation in the organization. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience in providing basic guidance to employees on military service deposits and civilian service deposits/redeposits. Experience in answering basic federal benefits questions. Experience in providing guidance to employees on basic retirement eligibility and creditable service. Experience in answering basic human resource related questions. Experience with maintaining logs, reports, and tracking systems to support an office workflow. Experience prioritizing task and assignments to avoid oversight. OR Combination of Education and Experience:Have a combination of education and experience. This experience must have equipped you with the 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 number of hours worked per week) spent in the 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]