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Senior Human Resources Specialist
Citizenship and Immigration Services · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud. As a Senior Human Resources Specialist, you will perform a full range of recruitment activities to include, screening and referring qualified applicants to hiring officials; interpreting and explaining policies, procedures, laws, and regulations; and processing a wide range of personnel actions..
What You'll Do
- →Use tact, diplomacy, and patience when communicating and dealing with others.
- →Advise management on a wide range of staffing and recruitment matters including strategic hiring authorities, various incentive programs, and HR systems.
- →Perform a full range of recruitment and placement activities in support of management's goal to identify, attract, and retain a high quality and diverse workforce that is capable of accomplishing the agency's mission.
- →Performs internal and external placement duties including conducting job analysis; drafting and preparing job opportunity announcement(s)' evaluating, rating, and ranking applicants; and adjudicating veteran's preference.
- →Conduct regular trainings with both internal and external customers in on-on-one, small group, and large group formats (e.g., New Hire Training program) on a wide range of staffing matters.
- →Provide team support on various recruitment efforts.
Requirements
- ✓Conditions of Employment: You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or U.S.
- ✓Residency Requirement: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by U.S.
- ✓Citizenship and Immigration Services.
- ✓This residency requirement states that candidates must have, for three of the last five years immediately prior to applying for this position; (1) resided in the United States; OR (2) worked for the United States Government as an employee overseas in a Federal or Military capacity, OR (3) been a dependent of a U.S.
- ✓Federal or Military employee serving overseas.
- ✓Probationary Period: You may be required to serve a probationary period of 1 year.
- ✓EDUCATIONAL SUBSTITUTION: There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
- ✓Any offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement will be consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U.S.
- ✓Office of Personnel Management guidance and U.S.
- ✓Office of Management and Budget plans and policies concerning hiring.
- ✓These authorities are subject to change.
- ✓Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.
- ✓Common definitions for hiring terms found in this announcement.
Benefits
- ★DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays.
- ★Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; telework; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers.
- ★DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities.
- ★For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any Federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service- connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 0ffe0ed7-8867-4463-bcdf-81094cfc0474
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