Civilian Personnel Program Specialist

Full Job Description

About the Position: The incumbent serves as a Civilian Personnel Program Specialist, providing expert assistance and strategic recommendations to management on all aspects of civilian personnel management, including workforce utilization, documentation, and human resources administration.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Excepted Service Overseas Family Member Appointment Family Member Preference (FMP) for Overseas Employment Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouse Preference (MSP) for Overseas Employment Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

To qualify for this position you must meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes providing assistance with personnel management; applying federal civilian human resource guidelines, policies, with pertinent laws and regulations which affect personnel management; and analyzing methods and techniques to issues concerning the efficiency and effectiveness of civilian personnel program operations budget and administrative related issues.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-9).

OR Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Business Administration, Human Resources, etc.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-9).

Major Duties:

• Advise management on personnel and manpower actions.
• Provide guidance to supervisors to prevent prohibited personnel practices.
• Provide support with human resource requests.
• Perform technical and administrative duties to include strength management, manpower tracking, and personnel accountability.
• Provide data input relative to military and civilian personnel for budgetary and other organizational staff requirements.
• Review and maintains human resource information using systems such as DCPDS, AUTONOA, FASCLASS, USASTAFFING, and EMPRES.