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Human Resources Assistant (Employee Benefits)
Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer · Posted 3 days ago
About the Role
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking excellent HR Assistants to provide support and guidance in a wide variety of human resources management activities and programs. As an HR Assistant, you will provide administrative and technical support concerning employee benefits.
What You'll Do
- →Perform a variety of duties in connection with the processing of personnel actions for employees under different personnel systems, including Title 5, Title 38, and Hybrid Title 38 employees in the excepted and competitive service, maintaining electronic official personnel folders (e-OPF) and generating and maintaining records and reports.
- →Provide support to current staff and prospective staff responsible for starting, stopping or changing employee benefits upon request.
- →Incumbent supports the work life programs within HR including; Compressed Work Schedules, Telework program, Disabled Veteran Leave, Child Care Subsidy and Transit Benefits.
- →Responsible for reviewing and routing all requests for work life benefits submitted to HR; serves as a point of contact for medical centers and other facilities and provides information regarding the work life programs.
- →Attends health benefit carrier enrollment fairs to assist with open season.
- →Maintain and present up-to-date benefits information for including FEHB, FEGLI, TSP, Leave Programs and retirement.
- →Ensures all new hires forms are appropriately uploaded to e-OPFs and obtains all required insurance information to enroll employees in health benefits or life insurance.
- →Responsible for enrolling all new employees into the TMS system and crediting training into user accounts.
- →Complete personnel actions, and ensures all documents are scanned and placed in the employee's e-OPF in the correct electronic folders.
- →The incumbent follows up on the status of leave records and medical records for separated employees using information systems as directed by the agency.
- →Completes all required forms for separations; ensures separation packages are sent out on time and health insurance matters are properly addressed.
- →Audit e-OPFs prior to transfer of folders to the National Personnel Records Center or other personnel offices by purging temporary materials, ensuring that final personnel actions, leave records and medical folders are included.
- →Audits e-OPFs in accordance with regulation, to ensure the contents of the e-OPFs are valid.
- →Maintains current files on accessions and separations using information systems.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a one year probationary period or two year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period one year probationary period or two year trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
Benefits
- ★VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies.
- ★This position may be authorized for telework.
- ★Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
- ★Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee.
- ★VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service.
- ★This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave.
- ★Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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