HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST (EMPLOYEE & LABOR RELATIONS)

Summary

You will serve as a HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST (EMPLOYEE & LABOR RELATIONS) in the USFF HR SERVICES BRANCH (1102.6), EXECUTIVE SUPPORT OFFICE of PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

• •You will represent management by receiving requests for arbitrations from unions, reviewing for arbitrability, deciding acceptance/rejection, selecting an arbitrator, investigating grievances, and preparing witnesses for hearing.
• •You will serve as a negotiator or member/technical advisor for management in contract negotiations, mid-term negotiations, and conduct post-negotiations agreement training for management.
• •You will research fact, legal precedents, and define legal and factual parameters and issues of cases.
• •You will provide labor relations and employee assistance to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
• •You will keep current on labor relations matters by reviewing voluminous third-party decisions, meet with unions to resolve problems, and coordinate on FOIA/Privacy Act requests.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: * Experience advising management about appropriate disciplinary or other corrective techniques that are responsive to a range of conduct and performance problems. * Experience conducting extensive probing and analysis to identify the root cause of an employee's misconduct or poor performance. * Experience comprehending laws, rules, regulations, precedents and policies. * Experience in fact finding, analyzing, negotiating, investigating, advocating positions, communicating, persuading, and consulting. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0200/human-resources-management-series-0201/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience: GS-11 Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information.