Human Resources Specialist

Summary

This position is located in the Office of Human Resource Operations, Employee Services Division, Labor and Employee Relations Branch. The ideal candidate for this position will be Detail-oriented HR professional with strong awards, performance management, data analysis, and customer service skills. Committed to accurate processing, policy compliance, and timely support to employees and leadership.

Duties

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will provide advisory assistance such as answering a specific request of a regular and recurring nature. Typical assignments include: Identifing routine processing issues and recommend improvements to enhance timeliness, accuracy, and customer service. Providing administrative and technical support for special projects related to employee performance, recognition, and workforce programs. Assisting with reviewing award nominations to ensure required justification, approvals, and supporting documentation are included. Tracking performance and awards actions using automated systems, spreadsheets, or internal databases. Providing routine guidance to employees, supervisors, and managers on performance and awards processes, deadlines, forms, and documentation requirements. Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

Qualifications

Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-07 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Experience applying human resources policies, procedures, and guidance related to performance management or employee awards to support accurate and timely program administration AND Experience reviewing, tracking, reporting and maintaining personnel or program records using automated systems or spreadsheets to ensure data accuracy, compliance with requirements, and effective customer service. OR Possess 1 full year of graduate level education; if related; OR Possess Superior academic achievement (S.A.A): A Bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement is defined as: graduating in the upper 1/3 of the class; membership in a national honor society; earning an overall undergrad GPA of 2.95 or higher or earning an undergrad GPA of 2.95 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) in the final 2 undergrad years completed; earning an overall undergrad GPA of 3.45 in the major or earning an undergrad GPA of 3.45 in the major during the final 2 undergrad years completed. Information regarding S.A.A can be found in OPM's General Schedule Qualification Policies: General Schedule Qualification Policies. OR Possess a combination of specialized experience and graduate level education that provided the specific knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application: Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Please limit your resume to two pages. The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages. Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the grade level, occupational series and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE)? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified." 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 provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards.

Education

Education substitution: This position permits applicants to qualify based on education (or a combination of education and experience), as outlined in the "requirements" section. If you are using education to qualify, you must submit a copy of your transcripts (unofficial are acceptable) with your online application. Once selected and prior to appointment, applicants must provide official college transcripts. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. For example, specific courses accepted for college-l