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 Human Resource Management Division, Personnel Director's Branch, Staffing and Employee Relations Section (SERS), Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Washington, D.C. Responsible for planning, developing, and administering staffing programs for the BOP. Provides guidance to HR Specialists in field institutions, Central Office, regional offices and other key management officials. Adjudicates staffing issues that are precedent setting, involve national policy, or are of a key nature organizationally. Reviews tentative OPM qualification standards, anticipating their effect on prison positions and provides comments on related OPM and DOJ proposed issuances which have national impact

Requirements

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

Qualifications

How Do I Qualify for this Position? To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education: There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position. Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. 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 and knowledge of the concepts, principles, and practices in staffing, recruitment and merit promotion procedures. Knowledgeable and well versed in the application of Title 5, United States Code; 5 CFR; Office of Personnel Management regulations; Department of Justice Orders dealing with personnel management; the Comptroller General’s Civilian Personnel Law Manual; National Finance Center manuals for personnel and payroll processing systems and the Federal Bureau of Prisons Human Resource Management Manual. Experience in developing policy, providing expert advice in an area of correctional specialty, or to provide guidance, direction, supervision, advice and/or evaluation for a program or programs in correctional facilities. 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.

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]