Human Resource Specialist (Recruitment and Placement)

The Civil Division, Office of Human Resources is seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated Human Resources professional to work in a fast-paced team environment. The ideal candidate for this position is team-oriented, knowledgeable about HR rules and regulations, and willing to share information with staff members. The successful candidate will provide a variety of human resource management advisory services involving positions covering immigration, national security, and/or public safety.

Duties

The principal focus of this position for the foreseeable future, is to assist the staffing activity in Division offices involved in immigration enforcement and national security work. As a GS- 0201-11/12, your typical work assignments may include the following:

• Researching laws, regulations, and policies to answer HR related questions.
• Processing personnel actions using an automated payroll system.
• Preparing vacancy announcements for positions in both the competitive and excepted service.
• Preparing pre-appointment paperwork for new hires, such as SF-52s, waiver requests, SQA forms, job offers, etc.
• Responding to a variety of inquiries from internal and external parties regarding HR programs.
• Analyzing personnel needs through research in order to ensure staffing decisions are properly implemented.
• Applying a wide range of recruitment and placement concepts, practices, regulations, and procedures to provide HR technical advice.
• Maintaining statistical data on employment ceilings and on-board counts for assigned components.
• Providing advisory services to internal and external customers in the areas of executive resources as well as recruitment and staffing services to managers and supervisors in assigned components of the Division.

This is not a remote location position. You will be required to work in person at an agency location on a full-time basis.

Salary

• $63,163 - $98,422/year

Conditions of Employment

• You must be a United States Citizen or National.
• You will be required to pass a suitability review.
• You must be a current permanent Department of Justice employee with competitive status or a CTAP/RPL eligible candidate.
• You must meet all applicable time-in-grade requirements by the closing of this announcement.
• Additional selections may be made from this announcement, within 90 days, if further openings occur in this office.

Qualifications To qualify for the position of Human Resource Specialist (Recruitment and Placement), (GS-0201-11/12), you must meet the basic qualification requirements listed below AND possess the required specialized experience specific to this series and grade.

If you are a current Department of Justice employee on a permanent appointment in the competitive service, you will need to demonstrate 1-year (52-weeks) at the GS-11 level or 1 year (52 weeks) at the GS-09 level to meet the time-in-grade requirements for this occupational series and grades.

To qualify for the GS-11 position, you must demonstrate that you have the following: At least one full year of specialized experience that is equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level in the federal service: preparing and processing personnel actions for a variety of positions; posting vacancy announcements for competitive and/or excepted service positions; researching laws, regulations, and policies to answer HR related questions; responding to a variety of inquiries from agency personnel and internal/external parties; preparing routine correspondence such as employment verifications, new hire paperwork, memos, emails, etc.
OR
Have a Ph.D or equivalent degree, or successfully completed at least 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.
OR
Received an LL.M if related.
OR
Have a combination of graduate education and experience , as described above that meets 100% of the requirements. (To compute the percentage, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12. Divide your semester hours of graduate education by 54. Add the total percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify.).

To qualify for the GS-12 position, you must demonstrate that you have the following: At least one full year of specialized experience that is equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the federal service: maintaining statistical/current data on employee on-board counts for assigned areas; advising management on policies and procedures for the recruitment, examination, selection, appointment, and promotion of personnel; applying research and analytical techniques to gather information to resolve difficult HR issues; providing recruitment and staffing services for positions in assigned components. ensuring compliance with merit staffing plans, OPM, and agency policies and regulations; developing crediting plans or assessments to be used in the recruitment process; conducting job analyses on a wide variety of positions in the competitive services to include multi-grade, administrative, clerical, technical, professional and scientific positions.

You MUST meet all qualification requirements, including Time-in-Grade, by the closing date of this announcement, 03/14/2025.

YOUR RESUME MUST support your responses to the online questionnaire and the qualification requirements. Failure to do so may result in an ineligible rating. See the Required Documents section for important notes about what must be included in your resume. Education If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements, please see the statements below. Education must be reviewed and certified by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, in order for it to be creditable towards your qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Foreign Education: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For more information about this requirement, please visit the U.S. Department of Education website for Foreign Education Evaluation. All documentation must be in English or include an English translation. Other Information

This vacancy is open to current DOJ employees and CTAP eligibles. See below for more information:

1. CURRENT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE EMPLOYEES: Employees who currently work for the Department of Justice, or any of it's components (i.e. FBI, DEA, ATF, USTP, JMD, etc.) on a permanent appointment in the competitive service. Contractor employees and those on Excepted Service appointments are not eligible.
2. CTAP ELIGIBLES: For more information visit: USAJOBS Career Transition Programs
3. REASONABLE ACCOMODATION STATEMENT: Our policy can be found at: https://www.justice.gov/jmd/reasonable-accommodation#policy
4. SELECTIVE SERVICE: If you were born male, on or after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System, or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. Additional information is found at: www.sss.gov.

Required Documents

Documentation requirements may vary from applicant to applicant based on your eligibility claims.

It is your responsibility to carefully review the list of document descriptions below, to see which documents are required for your application.

ALL APPLICANTS: You must submit a detailed resume containing the following pieces of information for each job entry listed in your employment history:

1. Contact Information: Name, address, phone number, and email,
2. Official position title;
3. Employer name and contact information;
4. Start and end dates (including month and year);
5. A detailed list of duties & accomplishments,
6. Your grade/step achieved; and
7. The number of hours worked per week (or indicate full-time).

If you are a current DOJ employee:

1. You must submit your most recent SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) or equivalent agency form. Do not submit an award SF-50, these do not contain sufficient information about your appointment
2. Your SF-50 should list the full position title, series, grade and step, organization, duty location, service computation date, effective date, and your service type and tenure status.
3. Submit a copy of your most recent performance evaluation or appraisal, signed, showing your final rating. If a performance appraisal is not available submit a statement explaining why one is not available.

If you are a displaced former DOJ employee claiming eligibility under CTAP:

1. You must submit your separation notice or RIF letter.
2. If you have not yet been separated, you can provide the letter of intent to separate you from the agency because of reduction-in-force.
3. See USAJOBS' Career Transition Programs for more information.

If you are using education to qualify for this position, or education is required:

1. You must submit a transcript, which may be unofficial, as long as it contains a full listing of courses, credit earned, grade and grade-point-average, subject area, degree(s) earned, and dates of award.
2. Your transcript must come from a nationally-accredited educational institution recognized by the Department of Education.
3. If submitting a foreign transcript, you must have the transcript reviewed by an approved foreign education review organization recognized by the Department of Education.
4. Please do not submit electronic transcripts with documentation security protection, these may prevent our application system from accepting and processing the document.

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How to Apply

To apply for this position, you must complete the online application questionnaire and submit your supporting documentation. Your complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 03/14/2025 to receive consideration.

If you would like to preview the assessment questionnaire, please see: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12699753

1. Click "Apply Online" to get started.
2. If you're not logged in to your USAJOBS account, you will need to login. If you don't have an account, please create one.
3. You will be prompted to select one of your stored (or uploaded) resumes, and any supporting documents you have uploaded to USAJOBS. If you have not uploaded these documents, you can do so later before submitting your application.
4. After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, you will be asked to submit your demographic information (if you have provided this in your profile). Submission is optional and anonymous.
5. You'll be asked to confirm your choices and certify the accuracy of your information before you're able to continue to the Application Manager system. Until you see the blue border and DOJ logo, you are still on USAJOBS. You'll see a folder animation just before you leave USAJOBS.
6. Once you reach DOJ's Application Manager system, you'll be asked to verify the information you transmitted from USAJOBS. You will then respond to the application assessment questionnaires and indicate your eligibility options.
7. After responding to the questionnaires, you will have the opportunity to attach the documents you brought over from USAJOBS *OR* upload documents directly from your computer or device.
8. If you opt to upload a document directly, click the "Upload" button and select the document on your device, then wait for the upload to finish. Repeat as needed. Documents must be less than 3 MB each and should be in a compatible file format.
9. Once all your documents are uploaded, you must assign the uploads to the appropriate document category. You may attach more than one document to each category. Click the drop-down menu for a document category, and select one of the available options in the menu. The document will be listed under this category. You can click the drop-down again to add other documents, as needed. You can have up to 15 document assignments.
10. Once you've uploaded and assigned all your documents to an appropriate document type, you can proceed to the final verification step, and click Submit.
11. If you have correctly submitted your application, you will receive an automated e-mail notification within 30-60 minutes. Be sure to review the announcement fully to make sure that your application contains everything that is required.

If you need help with the application process, please see the USAJOBS Help Site (for everything on the USAJOBS-side), or the Application Manager Help Site (for everything on the DOJ-side).

Regrettably, the Department of Justice cannot assist you with USAJOBS account issues. If you contact us for assistance and the problem is related to your USAJOBS account, we will have to direct you to USAJOBS to remedy the issue.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS:
If you are unable to apply online due to a disability or overseas deployment, you must request an alternative application, which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact Brandon Cox at brandon.l.cox@usdoj.gov or 202-598-9544 to discuss your situation. Accommodations are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

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