SUPERVISORY HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST

Summary

This position serves as a Staffing Section Chief within the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). You will provide technical guidance, leadership, and supervision to a team of human resources specialists and assistants. Core responsibilities include planning, coordinating, and overseeing federal staffing and recruitment operations for all of FSIS and Shared Services customers while ensuring operations comply with federal laws, regulations, and service level agreements.

Duties

• Plan, coordinate, and direct personnel functions in the areas of staffing and recruitment.
• Exercise supervisory personnel management responsibilities to include evaluating employee performance; overseeing the timely and efficient work of staff; setting and adjusting staff priorities and deadlines; identifying team training needs.
• Interpret Federal Human Resources regulations, policies, and procedures, and provide technical guidance to staff.
• Mentor subordinates and team members.
• Prepare various reports.
• Research personnel regulations, laws, and policies
• Resolve complex work problems or complaints.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions, specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. Time in grade: Applicants must meet one year at the next lower grade to be considered for the next higher grade (e.g. one year at the GS-12 grade level for consideration for the GS-13 grade level.) Specialized experience: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level. Resume must demonstrate at least 4 of the 6 areas below: Planning or directing the operational functions of a Human Resources Staffing and Recruitment program to include managing, supervising or leading subordinate staff. Providing advice and regulatory interpretation in the staffing or recruitment disciplines. Participating in short or long-range planning groups designed to evaluate operational effectiveness and improve Human Resources processes. Providing technical advice on Federal Human Resources statutes, regulations, laws, and policies. Representing an Agency at various levels from the Department level on down via both formal and informal presentations and/or communications. Demonstrated understanding of an organization's key personnel and stakeholders and how to cultivate relationships necessary for mission success. For more information on the qualifications for this position, click here: Human Resources Management Series, 0201 This position is subject to all applicable laws, regulations, and policies under the direction of Agency. Selection does not restrict the Agency from any future reorganization or realignment efforts. If a change in duty location is required after selection due to a directed reassignment, relocation expenses may be reimbursed. Declination of a directed reassignment could result in your removal from Federal service. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

There is no educational requirement or substitute for specialized experience for this position.

How to apply

Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments, and required documentation as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. Resumes must not exceed two pages. The application process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside at least 3 hours to take the USA Hire assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status: Click on this: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Please verify that documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limitation to the number of documents that can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume that exceeds two pages will be removed from consideration.