HUMAN RESOURCES ASSISTANT (MILITARY)

Job Title

The primary purpose of this position is to administer all stages of retirement policy, procedure and implementation to the Air Reserve Component (ARC) on behalf of the Secretary of the Air Force in accordance with applicable law, policy, and regulation.

Duties:

• Reviews, analyzes and evaluates any aspect of retirement cases to ascertain the proper law, rule or regulation applicable and required course(s) of action based on nature of the case.
• Provides advisory, technical assistance, procedural guidance, and recommendations regarding retirement applications and inquiries. Responds to inquiries from Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard members, MPFs, commanders at all levels, legal advisors, recorders, MAJCOMs, FOAs, Area Defense Counsels, Civilian Attorneys, DFAS, NGB, HQ USAF/RE, HQ USAF/JA, and various offices within SAF on processes and procedures that support the entire life cycle of the retirement and separation process.
• Applies in-depth knowledge and understanding to use, manipulate, and apply various functions of the Military Personnel Data System (MilPDS) and Defense Finance and Accounting Service-Cleveland (DFASCL) pay system in order to input transactions and analyze output products used to control, assess, evaluate, track, approve/disapprove, and communicate transaction status information as relates to the total retirement process.
• Maintains a database as required for all retirements and case files of other processes pertaining to retirements that require processing beyond those approvable without intervention in software systems, such as, but not limited to, cases forwarded to the various offices within SAF, as requiring waiver or exceptions to policy, cases of personnel placed on medical or admin hold, and cases of nonstandard or unusual situations.