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ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIST

Commander, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWARSYSCOM)

Department of the Navy

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$121,585 - $158,062

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GS-12 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves advising managers on handling tough employee issues like discipline, misconduct, and performance problems in a naval human resources office.

You'll analyze situations, recommend fair solutions, and train junior staff to ensure consistent and objective decisions.

It's a good fit for someone with strong people skills, attention to detail, and experience in HR who can stay calm under pressure in sensitive situations.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-12 level or equivalent in federal, private, or public sector
  • Expertise in advising on complex disciplinary and adverse actions
  • Ability to analyze misconduct, performance issues, and identify mitigating factors
  • Knowledge of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and recommending alternatives to formal discipline
  • Researching precedent decisions, MSPB arbitration, and staying updated on HR developments
  • Providing technical assistance, policy guidance, and training to employee relations staff
  • Maintaining objectivity in sensitive, emotional, or controversial issues involving morals, discrimination, or fraud

Full Job Description

You will serve as a ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIST in the HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE of NAVWARSYSCEN PACIFIC SAN DIEGO CA.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band NO-04 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Serve as a technical expert advising management on complex disciplinary and adverse actions; recommending alternatives to formal discipline; ADR efforts; analyzing misconduct and performance issues; identifying mitigating factors; and evaluating disciplinary trends to ensure consistent penalties.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0200/human-resources-management-series-0201/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

  • You will advisor/consultant on issues that are often sensitive, complex and/or controversial. Problems involve issues such as morals, discrimination and fraud that require special treatment due to the sensitivity of the issues and time constraints.
  • You will provide advice, technical assistance, and policy guidance to management concerning the most difficult and sensitive disciplinary and adverse actions at the Command as well as recommending the appropriate alternatives.
  • You will gather background information, interpret facts and events, and/or identify aggravating or mitigating factors relevant to the case; and does extensive probing and analysis to identify obscure.
  • You will research precedent decisions and keeps abreast of latest developments of the MSPB arbitration meeting and decisions.
  • You will maintain and encourages objectivity insinuations that may be charged with emotion and involve assumptions.
  • You will collaborate with management to define the issues associated with the most complex, difficult problems, determining applicable precedents, laws or regulations, identifying the most effective approach, and creating innovative methods.
  • You will provide on the job training, coaching to the Employee Relations Specialists and Assistant. Provides interim and annual performance assessment feedback to the employee relations supervisor for the employee relations team members

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/11/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/12/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12876291-26-BCH