Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement)

Selective Placement Factors: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. Those who do not provide evidence they possess the following selective factor(s) will be rated not qualified. Applicant must include in application package, a copy of current Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Delegated Examining (DE) certification certificate. (YOU MUST SUBMIT A COPY OF YOUR CERTIFICATE). Applicant will be rated not qualified if certification is not included in application package or out of date. All qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 11/27/2024. TIME-IN-GRADE: If you are a current career or career-conditional federal employee applying for promotion under Merit Promotion you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in positions at the next level lower than the position being filled. Experience: To receive credit, you must indicate the month and year as well as the average hours worked per week for each employer. Average work hours must be stated on the resume to quantify each period of work experience or that experience will not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. You must address the specific specialized experience required for each grade level of this position on your resume or application or you will be rated “Ineligible” for that grade level. GS-12: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skill, and ability to perform successfully in this position. This experience may have been gained in a Non-Federal service position. In addition, this Specialized Experience must demonstrate the following: Experience in all the following staffing functions: identifying competencies and conducting job analyses, creating assessment questionnaires, creating job opportunity announcements using an automated HR system, reviewing application materials for qualification determinations, adjudication of veterans’ preference, determining appointment eligibilities, creating ranking and certificate of eligible applicant lists; AND Prepare, review, and process a wide variety of personnel actions and ensure accuracy of information and compliance with all applicable regulations and guidelines; AND Provide full range of staffing/recruitment and placement consultative services to managers, employees, and applicants; AND Respond to human resource inquiries from internal and external stakeholders and applicants; AND Provides training and mentoring to HR staff members. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM’s Qualifications web site: Human Resources Management Series 0201 (opm.gov) 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 can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
You will serve as a Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement) for the Small Business Administration (SBA), Office of Capital Access (OCA), People Operations Disaster Division (PODD). The employee serves as a Human Resources (HR) Specialist providing HR advisory and program services to a Center or equivalent Center level office or to subdivisions of a Center. This job will close when we have received 100 applications which may be sooner than the closing date.