Clarification from the agency

You may apply if you are a current or former career/career conditional Federal employee with competitive status, VEOA eligible, or are eligible for a non-competitive hiring authority (i.e. 30% or more Compensable Veterans, reinstatement eligibles, interchange agreements, etc.). Please read the "This job is open to" section above, to ensure you are eligible for consideration.

The Civil Rights Division is seeking a Human Resources Specialists to provide services in Recruitment and Classification related program areas. The successful candidate will provide human resources advisory, consultation services, and operating support to the Division. In this capacity, the incumbent will:

• Provide guidance and direction to applicants, employees, supervisors, and managers in the development of solutions to problems dealing with recruitment and position classification. Cultivate and maintain consultative relationship with these individuals to develop strategies and interventions.
• Coordinate recruitment efforts and advise managers of alternate hiring methods to ensure staffing goals are met. Provide information and recommendations on competitive and excepted service appointing authorities, use of career ladders, compensation, merit promotion, and delegated examining procedures.
• Conduct job analyses and develop appropriate assessment tools to identify the best qualified candidates for positions advertised.
• Create vacancy announcements utilizing USA Staffing, a web-based hiring management system. This will include:
  • building vacancy announcements,
  • creating and editing templates,
  • and modifying vacancy position information.
• Develop assessment questionnaires, build new and edit existing questions and assign appropriate weights to questions developed based on grade and series.
• Utilize the automated system to track items, email applicants, and close-out case files in accordance with merit staffing and delegated examining procedures. Prior to posting vacancy announcement, consult with hiring officials to discuss any special hiring authorities which may be utilized to fill desired position.
• Make qualifications determinations and upon completion, rate and rank applicants for referral to the selecting official.
• Ensure the technical accuracy and adequacy of all personnel action requests affecting new hires and employee changes within assigned organizations, including reviewing actions to determine nature of action and applicable regulations/procedures involved.
• Prepare and review positions and/or job descriptions, conduct desk audits, write reports of findings, and prepare evaluations as required.
• Provide advice and guidance to management on the position evaluation and classification process, including developing position descriptions and communicating grade distinctions.
• Conduct position management reviews, including completion of desk audits, preparing reports of findings and providing recommendations to management.
• Performs other duties, as assigned.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• You may be required to complete a pre-employment security screening to initiate your background investigation, which includes a drug screening. Continued employment is contingent upon successful completion and adjudication of your investigation.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born on, or after, December 31st 1959. Those not registered should have an approved exemption on file.
• You may be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
• Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level) by the closing date of this announcement. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.
• Current or former federal employees MUST submit your most recent performance evaluation or appraisal, signed, showing your final rating, or statement why the performance appraisal is unavailable. Failure to submit an appropriate appraisal or statement will result in not receiving consideration for this position under merit promotion procedures.
• DOJ uses E-Verify, an internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, by visiting www.e-verify.gov/.
• DOJ's Residency Requirement applies to all DOJ applicants whose job location is within the U.S. In addition, for a total of three years (not necessarily consecutive years) of the five years immediately prior to applying for a position, the applicant must have: 1) resided in the U.S.; 2) worked for the U.S. overseas in a Federal or military capacity; or, 3) been a dependent of a Federal or military employee serving overseas.

Qualifications

The closing date of this announcement is being extended.

SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR (SPF): In addition to the specialized experience requirements, an SPF will be used to determine basic qualification. If you do not possess the required SPF, you will not be given consideration for this position.

You MUST be Delegated Examining (DE) Certified.
If you possess DE certification, please annotate on your resume the date of your DE certification AND the expiration date. A copy of your DE certificate showing the date of certification and expiration date must be included with your application materials.

Specialized Experience Requirements

To qualify at the GS-12 grade level, you must have 12 months (one full year) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service or other pay system. Examples of specialized experience include: providing human resources advisory services to employees and managers regarding staffing and recruitment; preparing vacancy announcements; conducting job analysis and developing assessment questionnaires; determining eligibility and qualifications of applicants; coding or reviewing the full range of personnel actions; responding to HR-related inquiries from customers; utilizing automated staffing systems such as USA Staffing, Monster, QuickHire, Avue, LinkedIn, Indeed, or other similar systems; analyzing and interpreting human resources regulations and policies to provide guidance in the areas of staffing and recruitment.

To qualify at the GS-13 grade level, you must have 12 months (one full year) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service or other pay system. Examples of specialized experience include: serving as a subject matter expert interpreting and applying human resources staffing and recruitment principles, practices, laws, and regulations in order to provide advisory services in recruitment and placement strategies; preparing vacancy announcements, conducting job analysis and developing assessment questionnaires; determining eligibility and qualifications of applicants; serving as a quality reviewer in coding and processing the full range of personnel actions; responding to complex HR-related inquiries from customers; utilizing automated staffing systems such as USA Staffing, Monster, QuickHire, Avue, LinkedIn, Indeed, or other similar systems; analyzing and interpreting human resources regulations and policies to provide technical guidance in the areas of staffing and recruitment.

In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - please be sure to include this information in your resume. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.

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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENTS: Merit promotion applicants applying for a grade higher than the grade you currently hold, must provide an SF-50, which shows type of service appointment, tenure group, grade, and salary. Your SF-50 Form must also show the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s over one year old). No award SF-50s will be accepted. Current Civil Rights Division employees are not required to submit an SF-50.

Your resume must clearly demonstrate that you met all qualifications, time-in-grade, and education requirements (if applicable) by the closing date of this announcement.

YOUR RESUME MUST support your responses to the online questionnaire and provide specific details as to how your experience meets the specialized experience as described in the vacancy announcement. If you are using experience to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, please ensure that your resume includes the month and year that you began and ended each position held or that position will not be credited towards meeting the specialized experience requirement. Part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience. Failure to provide the required details will result in an ineligible rating.

Your latest resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and supersedes previous submissions.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Your application will be evaluated and rated under DOJ's Merit Promotion Procedures. Once the announcement closes, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be conducted by the HR Specialist. This information will be compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine your eligibility for Federal employment, and then whether you are qualified for this particular position. If a determination is made that you have inflated your responses when compared to your application materials, you may be deemed ineligible, or your score may be adjusted to more accurately reflect your skills and abilities.

If it is determined you meet minimum qualification requirements, your application will then be placed in one of three groups: Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified. If you are found to be among the top candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration.

Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies:

• Accountability
• Attention to Detail
• Customer Service
• Decision Making
• Flexibility
• Human Resources (Classification)
• Human Resources (Recruitment)
• Influencing/Negotiating
• Integrity/Honesty
• Interpersonal Skills
• Learning
• Oral Communication
• Reading Comprehension
• Reasoning
• Self-Management
• Stress Tolerance
• Teamwork
• Writing

1. Meet CTAP or ICTAP eligibility criteria;
2. Be rated well-qualified for the position with a score of 85 or above based on the competencies listed above; and
3. Submit the appropriate documentation to support your CTAP or ICTAP eligibility: most recent performance appraisal, a copy of your written notification of ICTAP eligibility or a copy of our separation personnel action, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, tenure, and duty station.