Human Resources Assistant
What you'd do
This vacancy is for a Human Resources Assistant in the Office of the Secretary within the Department of Commerce.
Major duties
As a Human Resources Assistant, you will : Assist Human Resources (HR) Specialists and perform assignments including gathering supporting documentation for recruitment packages, reviewing appointment eligibility, researching OPM guidelines to determine nature of action and legal authority codes, and drafting offer letters. Serve as the point of contact for security investigation processing. Ensures candidates have the appropriate security forms, completes initiation of investigation paperwork and coordinates with the Security Office to track the status of pending pre-appointment approvals. Initiate USAcess requests for fingerprinting and HSPD-12 credentialing. Assists in arranging pre-employment physical examinations and pre-employment drug testing. Assist in preparatory work for New Employee Orientation (NEO). Coordinates with HR Specialist to prepare the Entrance of Duty (EOD) list, reserves conference room and sends out NEO invites. Work with new hires to collect onboarding forms, reviews for accurateness and accepts them when completed in the automated database. Apply regulatory and policy guidance to review and ensure personnel action requests (PARs) conform to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and DOC rules, regulations, policies, and guidelines. Submit hiring packages for processing and resolves a variety of personnel issues related to nature of action codes, legal authorities, remark codes, pay, service computation dates, and accuracy of other data elements contained on PARs. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Human Resources Assistant ZS-0203-3, FPL: 4 positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location or local commuting area with the same qualifications and specialized experience. This position is also being advertised under the following vacancies: OS-OHRM-DE-26-13037373 (Band 3 Delegated Examining) OS-OHRM-DE-26-13037375 (Band 4 Delegated Examining) OS-OHRM-ST-26-13037376 (Band 4 Merit Promotion) You must apply to ALL announcements individually if you want to be considered for ALL.
What you need to qualify
Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Occupational-Series Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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. This position is being filled under the Department Of Commerce Alternative Personnel System (CAPS). Under CAPS, positions are classified by career path and pay band. The ZS-03 is equivalent to the GS-05/06 grade levels. To qualify at the ZS-03 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZS-02 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience: Using automated systems to perform administrative support functions (i.e. reviewing information for discrepancies, preparing reports, and correspondence); Maintaining records to ensure they are accurate and up to date; Collaborating with applicants, departments and other organizations to obtain information required -OR- SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: Successfully completed 4 years of education above high school. -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.
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