Human Resources Specialist

Summary

This position is located in the Operations Division, Office of Human Resources, U. S. Agency for Global Media. It is co-located with the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) to provide direct support to OCB senior leadership on a variety of Human Resource issues, with primary support to OCB recruitment, workforce planning, organization management.

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Duties

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As a Human Resources Specialist, you will be responsible for duties to include, but are not limited to:

• Develop job analysis and crediting plans to identify the best qualified candidates. prepares vacancy announcements and related documentation. Evaluates qualifications of applicants.
• Assists managers, supervisors, HR specialists, security personnel, employees, and
  selectees with suitability, security, and onboarding documentation and processing. prepares preliminary and final offer letters.
• Provides on-boarding and security/suitability determination forms and links to selectee.
  assists selectee, as needed with preparing forms and entering on boarding and security/suitability information into automated systems, such as e-QIP.
• Assists OCB management in preparing personnel action requests.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National
• This is a public trust position. If selected, this position requires the completion of the SF-86,
• Suitability Determination: If selected, you may be subject to a background investigation to establish your suitability for federal employment. The background investigation may include, among other aspects, a review of your credit and legal history.
• This position is not covered by a Union Agreement.
• This position may require serving a one-year probationary period.
• The full performance grade level for this position is GS-12.
• If you are a male applicant who is born after 12/31/59, you are required to be registered for the Selective Service.

Qualifications

Screen out factor : Applicant must have fluency in both English and Spanish languages that enables you to speak, read, write, report, and translate in both languages. This language screen out factor MUST be listed in your resume to receive consideration.

Applicants must have a minimum of one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility comparable to the GS-11 or comparable pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized Experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and includes all of the following.

• Conducted full-cycle recruitment and staffing activities for positions, including job analysis, vacancy announcement development, qualification determinations, candidate assessment, and certificate issuance.
• Applied Office of Personnel Management (OPM) qualification standards, federal hiring authorities, and merit system principles to ensure compliance with staffing regulations.
• Coded and reviewed personnel actions and staffing requests for accuracy, regulatory compliance, and alignment with organizational workforce requirements.
• Utilized automated staffing systems to manage recruitment actions, track applicant status, and generate hiring reports and metrics.

Delegated Examining Certified is preferred.

Education

Education is not required for this grade level. It cannot be used for qualification purposes.

Additional information

1. Candidates MUST meet all qualification requirements by closing date.

2. If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/59 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency. For Military Selective Service Act requirement information, please visit

3. Your application to this vacancy announcement will only allow consideration for this announcement. We cannot electronically or manually move your application to corresponding announcements if applicable.

4. Additional vacancies not reflected in the announcement that occur after the opening date of the vacancy announcement for position(s) identical (same grade, series and title) to the original vacancy may be filled from the selection certificate during the validity of the certificate.

5. Budgetary conditions may delay or otherwise affect filling this vacancy. However, all interested candidates should apply now.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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