Human Resource Specialist (Recruitment and Placement).

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.

Requirements

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.

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.

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All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.

Additional information

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

• CURRENT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE EMPLOYEES: Employees who currently work for the Department of Justice, or any of its 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.
• CTAP ELIGIBLES: For more information visit:
• REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: Our policy can be found at:
• 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:
• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.