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HUMAN RESOURCES ASSISTANT
Food Safety and Inspection Service · Posted 17 days ago
Hybrid Eagan, MN $44K – $72K Apply by Sep 22, 2026 Human Resources Assistance ISFJ OperationsCustomer Success
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The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service seeks a Human Resources Assistant (GS-0203) for the HR Operations Division. This role provides critical clerical support, processes personnel actions, and manages records. Depending on placement, you will either support staffing workflows by reviewing application packages or assist with benefits administration and enrollment processing. The ideal candidate has strong customer service skills to resolve diverse employee inquiries.
What You'll Do
- →Provide guidance to employees on how to access Federal benefits information, explain eligibility requirements, application processes, and timelines.
- →Receive, review and process enrollment forms.
- →Determine benefits status and eligibility using programs, regulations and policies.
- →Drafts and send letters and notifications related to life events, retirements and separations.
- →Review submitted documentation for completeness and input data into appropriate databases.
- →Develop reports, review data, and suspense files using approved methods.
- →Participate in projects under the direction of a specialist or supervisor.
- →Pay duties including research, verify, and resolve pay issues and personnel documents for employees.
- →Participate in recruitment/examining activities for identified positions through databases.
- →Respond directly to applicant inquiries, complete tasks for pre-employment processes.
- →Assist with making job offers, preparing and coordinating Entry on Duty (EOD) dates, release dates, examining on-boarding documentation for completion.
- →Ensure that personnel actions contain correct nature of action and legal authorities, employee data, pay data and remark codes.
- →Review submitted documentation for completeness.
- →Input data into appropriate databases.
Requirements
- ✓If education is required or being used to qualify, you must submit a copy of all relevant college transcripts.
- ✓An unofficial copy is sufficient with the application if it includes your name and the necessary course information; however, if you are selected, official transcripts will be required prior to entering on duty.
- ✓Education must have been successfully obtained from an accredited school, college or university.
- ✓If any education was completed at a foreign institute, you must submit with your application evidence that the institute was appropriately accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education as equivalent to U.S. education standards.
- ✓There are private organizations that specialize in this evaluation and a fee is normally associated with this service.
- ✓For a list of private organizations that evaluate education, visit the NACES website.
- ✓All transcripts must be in English or include an English translation.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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