Supervisory Human Resources Specialist
What you'd do
This vacancy is for a GS-0201-14, Supervisory Human Resources Specialist located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, CIVILIAN PERSONNEL SERVICES BRANCH (CPM-1), Headquarters, Southeast, and West Branches. Location Negotiable After Selection, United States. The salary listed is the base pay for the GS-14 grade. Final salary will include locality pay and will be determined based on the duty location after selection.
Major duties
You will serve as a Supervisory Human Resources Specialist and be responsible for serving as a technical authority providing authoritative HR advisory services in staffing, classification, compensation, and personnel action processing; and ensuring region-wide program compliance with laws, regulations, and policies. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: Supervises Center Operations directing day-to-day operations of a multi-graded HR team, ensuring timely and accurate workload distribution, production tracking, and quality assurance of personnel actions and advisory services. Monitors and improves program effectiveness evaluating operational effectiveness by conducting internal audits, workload analyses, and quality reviews. Identifies systemic problems and implements corrective action plans. Serves as a technical authority providing authoritative HR advisory services in staffing, classification, compensation, and personnel action processing; and ensuring region-wide program compliance with laws, regulations, and policies. Executes supervisory duties including hiring, performance management, training, and disciplinary actions for staff across multiple HR functional areas. Leads special projects, congressional inquiries, FOIA requests, and Commandant taskers and ensures legal and regulatory accuracy.
What you need to qualify
To qualify at the GS-14 grade level, applicants must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. NOTE: All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Specialized experience must include the following: Providing expert-level advisory services and technical oversight in areas such as staffing, classification, compensation, and personnel action processing in the federal government. Leading a multidisciplinary team in the day-to-day operations of HR activities such as workload balancing, quality control, and/or performance evaluations. Interpreting and applying federal HR regulations, laws, and policies to develop guidance and/or resolve complex or controversial personnel issues. Designing or assisting in the design of HR operational studies to improve efficiency, customer service, or compliance with federal policies. Utilizing a wide range of HR automated tools sufficient to review and analyze data, generate management reports and/or advisories, conduct studies, and/or quality review. Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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. The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
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