As a Human Resources Specialist, you will perform a wide range of large scale, highly visible, and highly complex recruitment and placement assignments.
Location of position: This is a VIRTUAL position within GSA's Office of Human Resources Management
We are currently filling one vacancy, but additional vacancies may be filled through this announcement in this or other GSA organizations.
Summary
As a Human Resources Specialist, you will perform a wide range of large scale, highly visible, and highly complex recruitment and placement assignments.
Location of position: This is a VIRTUAL position within GSA's Office of Human Resources Management
We are currently filling one vacancy, but additional vacancies may be filled through this announcement in this or other GSA organizations.
Your application will be considered if you are a:
Current career/career-conditional Federal employee in the competitive service; Reinstatement eligible; Special Appointing Authority eligible; VEOA eligible Veteran; ICTAP eligible; or OPM Interchange Agreement eligible.
As a Human Resources Specialist, you will perform the following duties:
Duties at the GS-12 Grade level
Engage in a number of pre-announcement duties. Conduct recruitment conversations with hiring managers. Consider use of a wide variety of hiring authorities in order to devise a recruitment strategy designed to attract a diverse and qualified applicant pool. Develop job analyses; identify and write effective assessment questions/tools. Consult with hiring managers and applies weight calculator to assign weights to vacancy assessment questions and responses.
Develop vacancy announcements. Review applicant resumes and supporting documentation for completeness, eligibility, and possession of required qualifications; review for score inflation, making score adjustments as warranted. Issue referrals in accordance with applicable guidelines; respond to applicant inquiries concerning application procedures and qualification/eligibility determinations. Extend job offers and set pay in accordance with regulations and agency pay policies.
Provide human resources management advisory service for customers with complex recruitment, retention and hiring challenges. Research staffing and recruitment laws, regulations, and policies to develop recommended course of action. Provide the full range of advice to management on select workforce strategies to address workload needs, core competency requirements, and staffing alignment to ensure accomplishment of customer programs and mission requirements.
Create and send job offer letters; initiate the background investigation and onboarding process; code and submit new hire Requests for Personnel Actions (PARs) for processing including appropriate nature of action codes, appointment authorities, and required remarks. Update workload trackers with relevant staffing and recruitment data; close out vacancy case files to ensure completeness/reconstruction. Consult with and provide advice to managers on internal placement actions including reassignments, career-ladder promotions, and details. Review associated PARs to ensure compliance with and adherence to laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Duties at the GS-13 Grade level
Conduct recruitment conversations with hiring managers. Work with hiring managers on refining and/or developing recruitment/placement criteria in order to recruit for hard-to-fill highly technical, professional and/or specialized positions in areas where a short-age of qualified personnel exists. Research the labor market, demographic data, and identify recruitment incentives (relocation or recruitment incentives, student loan repayment, creditable service for annual leave accrual, etc.) that might be needed or feasible to attract a qualified applicant pool. Adapt HR goals, policies, and practices to the specific needs of the customer organization.
Advise and explain to hiring managers about Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and the corresponding hiring metrics in order to keep the hiring process on track and completed timely. Develop vacancy announcements. Review applicant resumes and supporting documentation for completeness, eligibility and possession of required qualifications; review for score inflation, making score adjustments as warranted. Issue referrals in accordance with applicable guidelines; respond to applicant inquiries concerning application procedures and qualification/eligibility determinations. Set pay in accordance to Title V and agency pay policy and advises hiring managers and supervisors on pay incentives and flexibilities such as Superior Qualifications Appointments, advanced annual leave accrual, and recruitment and relocation incentives.
Manage and participate in special projects that are designed to enhance the HR program or involve large scale hiring initiatives for specific occupations. Manage and/or accomplish the most complex work assignments in recruitment and placement, which involves extremely difficult or complicated projects and regularly requires the identification and resolution of precedent setting and/or highly controversial operational problems. Analyze specific recruitment problems, diagnoses the cause of conditions found and recommends appropriate short and/or long range course of action.
Implement programs, services and initiatives to ensure that customer needs are met and that customer issues and concerns are remedied in a quick and efficient manner. Perform proactive actions to manage customers, and is proactive in resolving customer issues and concerns. Serve as an expert and key spokesperson while leading project teams and serving as a team member. Utilize automated systems to establish spreadsheets, milestones, and other status information. Facilitate related functions and shares action items with groups and team members including the establishment of project plans, milestones charts, status reports and other mechanisms used to prepare and present data to customers and stakeholders.
US Citizenship or National (Residents of American Samoa and Swains Island)
Meet all eligibility criteria within 30 days of the closing date
Meet time-in-grade within 30 days of the closing date, if applicable
Register with Selective Service if you are a male born after 12/31/1959
If selected, you must meet the following conditions:
Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Noncareer SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the HR Office. Failure to disclose this information could result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service.
Serve a one year probationary period, if required.
Undergo and pass a background investigation (Tier 2 investigation level).
Have your identity and work status eligibility verified if you are not a GSA employee. We will use the Department of Homeland Security’s e-Verify system for this. Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of continued employment.
Qualifications
For each job on your resume, provide:
the exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year)
number of hours per week you worked (if part time).
If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume.
For a brief video on creating a Federal resume, click here.
The GS-12 salary range starts at $79,363 per year.
The GS-13 salary range starts at $94,373 per year.
Locality pay will be determined based of duty location.
If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:
To qualify for the GS-12, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or higher in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience independently analyzing the personnel needs of an organization, and providing a wide range of staffing, recruitment, and placement guidance and support to the supervisors, managers and employees of an organization. Such experience must demonstrate application of merit system principles/procedures, staffing regulations, appointment authorities, recruiting for a diverse workforce, developing job analyses and vacancy announcements, determining qualification requirements, reviewing application packages to determine if specified requirements are met, and setting pay.
To qualify for the GS-13, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level or higher in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as independently interpreting and applying human resources staffing and recruitment principles, practices, laws, and regulations in order to provide consultative management advisory services across organizations on recruitment and retention strategies, pay/compensation; researching and analyzing complex data to solve human resources problems and improve staffing and recruitment programs; Using a variety of internal/external recruitment strategies to advise management on principles, laws and regulations of recruitment, hiring and placement; developing solutions for a wide range of regular/recurring to unique/difficult staffing activities; and establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers and all levels of management. Experience must include, reviewing position descriptions, developing job analyses and vacancy announcements; validating qualifications; setting pay; and making offers of employment to hire a qualified workforce.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Additional information
Bargaining Unit Status: This position is ineligible for the bargaining unit
If you are selected at a grade lower than the full performance level, you may be promoted up to that grade level without having to re-apply or compete against other applicants.
On a case-by-case basis, the following incentives may be approved:
· Credit toward vacation leave if you are new to the federal government
Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement as needed; through other means; or not at all.
GSA is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility that goes beyond our compliance with EEO regulations including:
Valuing and embracing diversity, promoting equity, inclusion and accessibility, and expecting cultural competence; and
Fostering a work environment where all employees, customers and stakeholders feel respected and valued.
Our commitment is:
Reflected in our policies, procedures and work environment;
Recognized by our employees, customers and stakeholders; and
Drives our efforts to recruit, attract, retain and engage the diverse workforce needed to achieve our mission.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
You will be evaluated on the questions you answer during the application process, which will measure your overall possession of the following competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities. Your responses to these questions must be supported by your resume or your score may be lowered.
Skill in the researching, interpreting and applying federal HR rules, regulations, policies and directives to a variety of recruitment and placement issues.
Apply a wide range of advanced staffing and placement concepts and practices, as well as seasoned consultative skills sufficient to design and plan a future workforce such as downsizing, technological advances, and competition in the labor market; analyze trends and forecast changes in workforce requirements that will meet future mission demands; and implement agency-wide policy on workforce downsizing and reshaping.
Skill in communicating orally to clearly communicate highly technical information, deliver supervisory training and management briefings, and to perform management advisory services of considerable scope and complexity, as well as to present sensitive recommendations to all levels of management; to ascertain the needs of customer organizations; to obtain compliance with established policies and requirements; and/or otherwise articulate technically complex policies and requirements.
Skill in written communication in order to draft job analyses, crediting plans, evaluation reports, decision papers, memoranda, etc., as well as to clearly communicate highly technical information to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise.
Skill in working effectively as a team member, building team cohesiveness, reaching consensus and achieving organizational and team goals.
Skill in managing projects impacted by multiple competing priorities and requirements, and to successfully integrate these requirements to meet the goals and objectives outlined for initiatives.
Additional hurdle assessments, such as narrative responses or other assessments, may be administered to applicants who meet the requirements of the first hurdle, e.g., the minimum qualification requirements. If additional assessments are used, you will be provided with further instructions.
Consideration will be given to performance appraisals and incentive awards in merit promotion selection decisions in accordance with 5 CFR 335.103(b)(3). You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume so that information will be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation.
If you are eligible under Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan or GSA’s Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP/CTAP), you must receive a score of 85 or higher to receive priority.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
ALL required documents must be submitted before the closing date. Review the following list to determine what you need to submit.
Your resume showing applicant's name, email address, work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment and duties performed.
Note: If required to submit an SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action), an equivalent agency Notice of Personnel Action form is acceptable. The SF-50 or equivalent agency Notice of Personnel Action form must show all of the following: effective date, position, title, series, grade, and rate of basic pay, tenure group 1 (career) or 2 (career-conditional), position occupied group, and name of agency. If you are a GSA employee (except in the OIG), you are not required to submit an SF-50.
If you are a 30% or more disabled veteran, VEOA or VRA applicant or qualified spouse, widow/widower, or parent:
(a) Copy of your Certificate of Release or Discharge From Active Duty, DD-214 that shows the dates of your active duty service. If selected, a DD-214 showing your type of discharge (member 4 copy) will be required prior to appointment. (b) If you are a disabled veteran, or are applying under VRA or VEOA as a spouse, widow/widower, or parent of a veteran, submit both of the following in addition to the DD-214: (1) completed SF-15 form; and (2) proof of your entitlement (refer to SF-15 for complete list).
If you are active duty military- Certification on a letterhead from your military branch that includes your rank, character of service (must be under honorable conditions) & military service dates including discharge/release date (must be no later than 120 days after the date the certification is submitted).
If you are a current Federal employee or Reinstatement Eligible: Submit your latest SF-50.
(a) one or more SF-50s, including your most recent one that shows you were on a competitive time-limited appointment(s) with a Land Management Agency and served on the appointment for a period(s) totaling more than 24 months without a break of 2 or more years.
(b) Copy of your agency’s annual performance appraisal(s) or written reference(s) from a supervisor at the agency verifying satisfactory performance during your appointment(s).
If you have a disability: Submit proof of eligibility. For information on eligibility and required documentation, refer to USAJOBS’s People With Disabilities page.
If you are applying under another special appointment authority: Submit proof of your eligibility under the appropriate appointment authority. See USAJOBS's Resource Center for more information.
If you are ICTAP/CTAP eligible - submit a, b, and c: (a) proof of eligibility including agency notice; (b) SF-50, and (c) most recent performance appraisal.
If you are a current or former political appointee: Submit your SF-50.
Submit a complete online application including any required documents prior to 11:59 pm Eastern Time on the closing date of the announcement. You can modify or complete your application any time before the deadline. Simply return to USAJOBS, select the vacancy, and update your application. For more detailed instructions on how to apply, click here: Apply for a GSA Job.
To begin, click the Apply Online button on the vacancy announcement.
Sign in or register on USAJobs and select a resume and documents to include in your application.
Once you have clicked Apply for this position now, you will be taken to the GSA site to complete the application process.
Click the Apply To This Vacancy and complete all steps in the application process until the Confirmation indicates your application is complete. If you click Return to USAJobs or get timed out prior to receiving confirmation, your application will not be submitted and cannot be considered for this job.
Note: Review the REQUIRED DOCUMENTS section of this announcement to determine which apply to you and must be submitted online. You may choose one or more of the following options to submit your document(s): Upload (from your computer); USAJOBS (click the "USAJOBS" link to complete the transfer process) or FAX (read the “Fax instructions” provided prior to printing the Fax Cover Sheet and faxing your information).
Need Assistance in Applying? Contact the HR representative listed on the announcement prior to the application deadline. We are available to assist you Monday-Friday during normal business hours. You must receive HR approval before deviating from these instructions. Be sure to APPLY EARLY as most assessments must be completed fully and submitted before the announcement closing.
GSA, Office of Human Resources Management
General Services Administration
HR Services Center (CRSB)
1800 F Street, N.W.
Washington, District of Columbia 20405
United States
Next steps
After the closing date/deadline:
ELIGIBILITY/QUALIFICATIONS: Your application will be reviewed for all requirements.
REFERRAL TO MANAGEMENT: If you meet all the requirements, you may be referred to management for review and a possible interview.
SELECTION/TENTATIVE JOB OFFER: If you are selected, you will receive a tentative offer and start the suitability and/or security background investigation process.
FINAL JOB OFFER: Once our security office determines you can come on board, you will be given a final offer, which is typically 40 days after the announcement closes.
FINAL COMMUNICATION: Once the position is filled, we will notify you of your status. You may also check your application status by logging into USAJOBS and clicking “Track this Application” on the Applicant Dashboard.
Thank you for your interest in working for U.S. General Services Administration!
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
ALL required documents must be submitted before the closing date. Review the following list to determine what you need to submit.
Your resume showing applicant's name, email address, work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment and duties performed.
Note: If required to submit an SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action), an equivalent agency Notice of Personnel Action form is acceptable. The SF-50 or equivalent agency Notice of Personnel Action form must show all of the following: effective date, position, title, series, grade, and rate of basic pay, tenure group 1 (career) or 2 (career-conditional), position occupied group, and name of agency. If you are a GSA employee (except in the OIG), you are not required to submit an SF-50.
If you are a 30% or more disabled veteran, VEOA or VRA applicant or qualified spouse, widow/widower, or parent:
(a) Copy of your Certificate of Release or Discharge From Active Duty, DD-214 that shows the dates of your active duty service. If selected, a DD-214 showing your type of discharge (member 4 copy) will be required prior to appointment. (b) If you are a disabled veteran, or are applying under VRA or VEOA as a spouse, widow/widower, or parent of a veteran, submit both of the following in addition to the DD-214: (1) completed SF-15 form; and (2) proof of your entitlement (refer to SF-15 for complete list).
If you are active duty military- Certification on a letterhead from your military branch that includes your rank, character of service (must be under honorable conditions) & military service dates including discharge/release date (must be no later than 120 days after the date the certification is submitted).
If you are a current Federal employee or Reinstatement Eligible: Submit your latest SF-50.
(a) one or more SF-50s, including your most recent one that shows you were on a competitive time-limited appointment(s) with a Land Management Agency and served on the appointment for a period(s) totaling more than 24 months without a break of 2 or more years.
(b) Copy of your agency’s annual performance appraisal(s) or written reference(s) from a supervisor at the agency verifying satisfactory performance during your appointment(s).
If you have a disability: Submit proof of eligibility. For information on eligibility and required documentation, refer to USAJOBS’s People With Disabilities page.
If you are applying under another special appointment authority: Submit proof of your eligibility under the appropriate appointment authority. See USAJOBS's Resource Center for more information.
If you are ICTAP/CTAP eligible - submit a, b, and c: (a) proof of eligibility including agency notice; (b) SF-50, and (c) most recent performance appraisal.
If you are a current or former political appointee: Submit your SF-50.
Submit a complete online application including any required documents prior to 11:59 pm Eastern Time on the closing date of the announcement. You can modify or complete your application any time before the deadline. Simply return to USAJOBS, select the vacancy, and update your application. For more detailed instructions on how to apply, click here: Apply for a GSA Job.
To begin, click the Apply Online button on the vacancy announcement.
Sign in or register on USAJobs and select a resume and documents to include in your application.
Once you have clicked Apply for this position now, you will be taken to the GSA site to complete the application process.
Click the Apply To This Vacancy and complete all steps in the application process until the Confirmation indicates your application is complete. If you click Return to USAJobs or get timed out prior to receiving confirmation, your application will not be submitted and cannot be considered for this job.
Note: Review the REQUIRED DOCUMENTS section of this announcement to determine which apply to you and must be submitted online. You may choose one or more of the following options to submit your document(s): Upload (from your computer); USAJOBS (click the "USAJOBS" link to complete the transfer process) or FAX (read the “Fax instructions” provided prior to printing the Fax Cover Sheet and faxing your information).
Need Assistance in Applying? Contact the HR representative listed on the announcement prior to the application deadline. We are available to assist you Monday-Friday during normal business hours. You must receive HR approval before deviating from these instructions. Be sure to APPLY EARLY as most assessments must be completed fully and submitted before the announcement closing.
GSA, Office of Human Resources Management
General Services Administration
HR Services Center (CRSB)
1800 F Street, N.W.
Washington, District of Columbia 20405
United States
Next steps
After the closing date/deadline:
ELIGIBILITY/QUALIFICATIONS: Your application will be reviewed for all requirements.
REFERRAL TO MANAGEMENT: If you meet all the requirements, you may be referred to management for review and a possible interview.
SELECTION/TENTATIVE JOB OFFER: If you are selected, you will receive a tentative offer and start the suitability and/or security background investigation process.
FINAL JOB OFFER: Once our security office determines you can come on board, you will be given a final offer, which is typically 40 days after the announcement closes.
FINAL COMMUNICATION: Once the position is filled, we will notify you of your status. You may also check your application status by logging into USAJOBS and clicking “Track this Application” on the Applicant Dashboard.
Thank you for your interest in working for U.S. General Services Administration!
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
