HR SPEC (MILITARY)

Your tasks

• Skilled in oral and written communication to draft correspondence, reports, and briefings for review.
• Ability to plan and organize work.
• Knowledge of research techniques is sufficient to conduct fact finding and recommend solutions to moderately difficult issues and problems.
• Knowledge of military organizational structures, protocol, and simitar matters.
• Ability to use a personal computer and software applications to execute Accessions support programs and retrieve data for studies, subjects, and reports.

Requirements

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Civilian Employees of the Command Current Civilian Employees of the Organization Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Experience Required: To qualify based on your resume, the resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defines as: administering, monitoring, and managing human resources/personnel programs specifically for military cohorts within a military branch or component; performing case processing, reviewing applicant packets to ensure eligibility against established standards, and identifying disqualifying criteria for specific programs; interpreting and applying federal statutes, military regulations, and Department of Defense (DoD) policies to provide guidance, explanations, and authoritative interpretations on procedural military HR matters to applicants, managers, and external agencies; and conducting research and analyzing data to compose complex correspondence, preparing reports or briefings on trends and deficiencies, and managing personnel tracking/strength accounting systems. Please be clear and specific when describing your experience. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the Federal service (GS-07).

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-07).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this position at the GS-09 Level you must possess: A Master's in Human Resources Management or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree. Only degrees from accredited colleges or universities recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the U.S. Department of Education websites at - http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/accred/indes.html. FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show 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. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Other

About the Position: his position manages one or more military personnel action programs. It is located at Human Resources Command (HRC), Reserve Personnel Military Division (RPMD) at Fort Knox, Kentucky.