HR ASST (MILITARY/OA)

Full Job Description

About the Position: Serve as a Human Resources Assistant in a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS).

Incumbent of this position provides administrative Support to the Reception-Administration Control Desk (RACD), Record Maintenance & Accountability, and Enlistment Processing to include fingerprinting of applicants.

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.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Executive Order (E.O.) 12721 Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouse Preference (MSP) for Overseas Employment Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the 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.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience applying a standardized body of military human resources rules, procedures, and operations concerning military personnel and enlistment process; fingerprinting; verifying documents, and record maintenance & accountability; experience using automation systems.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04).

OR Education: Four years of education above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.

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 your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60.

Add the two percentages.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Computer Literacy Customer Service Managing Human Resources Oral Communication 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-04).

Major Duties:

• Fingerprint applicants and transmit fingerprints electronically using automated systems, ensuring fingerprints are acceptable.
• Reconcile fingerprint transaction history reports ensuring acceptance of fingerprint records at investigating agency.
• Review applicants' records to verify all necessary documents are present according to the requirements of each military service.
• Distribute applicant enlistment record documents to appropriate organizations.
• Ensure timely release of and accountability for processing records to the medical section, the services and external agencies for review.
• Assist with the preparation of orders such as transportation and/or amendments to transportation orders, delayed entry program orders for active duty and Reserve personnel assigned to all branches of service.