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Senior Human Resources Specialist
Citizenship and Immigration Services · Posted 124 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 interpret HR policies and laws, process various personnel actions, and advise a team of specialists on internal placement activities using HR data management systems.
What You'll Do
- →Advise management on a wide range of internal placement policies and procedures including, pay setting, special hiring authorities, detail programs, and HR Systems.
- →Serve as a subject matter expert managing pay and personnel records, verifying data, handling updates, and providing technical guidance on matters relating to HR data management systems.
- →Conduct regular training with customers on a wide range of non-recruitment related staffing matters including, career ladder promotions, conversions, details, settlement agreements, and leave without pay.
- →Conduct complex reviews of agency-wide issues requiring advanced technical expertise and deliver accurate, timely corrective actions to employees’ pay and personnel accounts.
- →Aid audit team in gathering pertinent case files for review and assisting in rectifying data.
- →Interpret and provide advice on standard operating procedures and/or policies.
- →Plan initiatives and carry out studies, special projects, and evaluations in assigned HR functional area with a view toward analyzing significant problems and developing recommendations for improvements of procedures and policies.
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: b254c258-d6b3-4a7a-8708-4d189a9505eb
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