Human Resources Specialist

Summary

What is COMPLIANCE AND COMMUNICATIONS? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions Position(s) are to be filled in following area(s): HCO - Compliance and Communication - Remain in POD - The vacancy will be filled at the selectee's official permanent position of record, post-of-duty (POD). REVIEW THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW FOR FURTHER DETAILS

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position. Provides expert advice and authoritative information to all levels of leadership (including executives) throughout the IRS on a wide variety of highly complex, controversial, and sensitive program problems and issues. Conducts fact-finding and analysis and presents recommendations and conclusions. Serves as technical advisor and consultant on HR policy-related legislative and regulatory matters and serves as a liaison between IRS and OPM, Treasury, HCO, or other stakeholders on issues relative to policy and interpretation. Monitors proposed and new legislation, OPM regulations, and Treasury orders or directives to proactively determine the need to establish and/or update IRS policies and/or seek negotiability determinations as necessary. Devises strategy and timeline to develop and effect these new or updated policies. Identifies and analyzes complex legal decisions issued by a variety of sources to include the Federal Labor Relations Agency (FLRA), U.S. Supreme Court, Comptroller General, OPM, Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), U.S. Department of Labor, the Office of Government Ethics, and so on, to determine their effect on IRS HR policies. Serves as technical advisor for term and mid-term contract negotiations for the National Agreement between IRS and the National Treasury Employees Union and may testify at arbitrations or grievance hearings related to assigned policy areas. STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD23180 Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions.

Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or through Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-13: You must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-12) in the normal progression in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Provides expert advice and authoritative information to all levels of leadership (including executives) throughout the IRS on a wide variety of highly complex, controversial, and sensitive program problems and issues. Conducts fact-finding and analysis and presents recommendations and conclusions Creates, develops and publishes (using professional authoring tools and software as required by the IRS's Internal Management Documents (IMD) process) HR policies and guidance for all of IRS. These policies are based on law, regulation, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance, and U.S. Department of Treasury ("Treasury") directives, and the HR specialist applies consistent methodology for this policy development across all HR lines of business. Monitors proposed and new legislation, OPM regulations, and Treasury orders or directives to proactively determine the need to establish and/or update IRS policies and/or seek negotiability determinations as necessary. Devises strategy and timeline to develop and effect these new or updated policies. AND You must also meet the following requirement(s): TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT (TACA): Current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens". TIME IN GRADE (TIG): For positions above the GS-05, applicants must meet applicable time-in-­grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the grade you are applying for. For positions at the GS-5, you cannot advance to the GS-05 if you have held a GS-02 in the past 52 weeks. There is no TIG restriction for GS-02, 03, or 04 positions. For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

Education

A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions. We recommend choosing an evaluator from a member organization of one of the following national associations of credential evaluation services: National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE).