Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement)

All qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 11/27/2024. 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-09: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-07 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: Performing, or assisting with, multiple functions in two or more of the following functions: developing job analyses, creating job opportunity/vacancy announcements using an automated application system, veteran preference determinations/adjudications, making eligibility and/or qualification determinations, and developing assessment tools to determine the best qualified applicants such as: occupational questionnaires, narrative questionnaires, structured interview questions; AND Completing and reviewing documents to ensure compliance with applicable guidelines, for a wide variety of human resources (HR) such as accessions/new hires, promotions, reassignments, resignations, etc.; AND Responding to a variety of human resource (HR) inquiries from managers, employees and/or applicants. GS-11: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-09 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 three or more of the following functions: preparing job analyses, creating job opportunity/vacancy announcements using an automated application system, veteran preference determinations adjudications, making eligibility and/or qualification determinations and developing assessment tools to determine the best qualified applicants such as: occupational questionnaires, narrative questionnaires, structured interview questions; AND Preparing, reviewing, and updating/processing a wide variety of personnel actions for Federal civil service employees such as accessions, promotions, reassignments, awards, etc. and ensuring accuracy of information and compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines; AND Responding to a variety of human resource (HR) inquiries from managers, employees, and applicants. 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.