Program Specialist (Human Resources).

Duties

• Initiate and/or authorize a variety of Requests for Personnel Action including recruitments, reassignments, awards, and salary related actions.
• Cook up changes to paragraph/line numbers and position numbers with manpower analyst.
• Maintain files on personnel actions and coordinate actions with appropriate staff or supervisor.
• Verify accuracy of required duties within position descriptions.
• Advise management by recommending changes to position descriptions, preparing new position descriptions, and implementing new classification standards.
• Advise selecting officials on proper civilian hiring authorities, illegal hiring practices, and merit system principles.
• Develop tools to support hiring panels, ensuring appropriate procedures are followed and processes documented.
• Prepare selection and recommendation packages, ensuring requirements and regulatory policies have been applied and appropriate review and approval have been obtained.
• Counsel employees on PCS entitlements and coordinate documents for submittal and processing.
• Counsel employees on reimbursement for available entitlements.

  Qualifications

  • Conditions of employment: Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
  • Must successfully pass a urinalysis screening for illegal drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
  • Must be willing to undergo and successfully complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination with No Deception Indicated (NDI) on a pre-appointment and periodic basis.
  • Trial/probationary period may be required.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance.
  • May be required to perform TDY of at least 20% of the time and may be subject to extended TDY.