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Posted: February 4, 2026 (1 day ago)

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HR SPEC

Joint Activities

Department of the Army

Fresh

Location

Salary

$102,415 - $139,970

per year

Closes

February 11, 2026

Job Description

Summary

This job involves providing human resources support for a cyber command unit, including handling employee awards, performance reviews, policy advice, and workforce planning to adapt to changing missions.

It requires interpreting rules and solving complex HR issues in a military setting.

A good fit would be someone with strong administrative skills and experience in government HR, especially veterans or those familiar with federal employment processes.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience in HR administrative support, such as processing awards, performance evaluations, position changes, or realignments
  • Ability to interpret and clarify HR policies, regulatory guides, and laws
  • Skills in analyzing agency resources to resolve workforce structure issues
  • Experience providing guidance on civilian awards, decorations, performance evaluations, employment, realignments, retirement, and pay systems
  • Proficiency in researching, recommending, and administering HR programs, including VERA/VSIP actions and furloughs
  • Capability to attend meetings, formulate improvement plans, and present briefings or reports on HR strategies
  • Knowledge of implementing performance management and incentive award programs in a federal or military context

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f.

Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25.

This position is located at the Fort Meade, MD. CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT.

YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS".

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.

Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement".

If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

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.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe 1 year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position.

Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled.

Specialized experience would be demonstrated by One year of specialized experience would be demonstrated by: 1) Providing administrative support for personnel actions such as processing awards, performance evaluations, position changes, or realignments; 2) Interpreting Human Resources policies, regulatory guides, and/or laws; 3) Analyzing agency resources to resolve issues with workforce structure.

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

  • Provide interpretation and clarification of CHR policies, regulatory guides, and laws; the planning and reshaping of a workforce that is responsive to changes in mission; and works to develop solutions to complex problems of CHR program improvement.
  • Provides guidance and/or administrative support specifically regarding civilian awards, decorations, performance evaluation, employment, restudies, realignments, retirement, pay systems,
  • Research information, makes recommendations, initiates, processes, and administers various programs for the USCYBERCOM, including the coordination of VERA/VSIP actions, furloughs, and other organization actions as required.
  • Attends meetings with supervisors to help formulate improvement plans and strategies associated with HR requirements; reviews and comments on management plans/proposals; presents findings (by preparing and presenting briefings or reports).
  • Implements the Command’s Army Performance Management and Incentive Award programs.
  • Recommends/implements appropriate actions involving required position description modifications, grading structures, recruitment justification, developing/identifying criteria required, employment vacancies, appraisals and awards, etc.
  • Studies are complicated by the need to consider and evaluate the impact of changes in regulatory and legislative requirements, long-range program goals, mission requirements, etc.
  • Initiates, monitors and tracks all requests for personnel actions (RPAs) for the division. Forwards all RPAs ensuring completeness, accuracy, and attachment of appropriate documents (i.e., job descriptions, crediting plans).
  • Reviews new and changed human resource management directives, policies, procedures, requirement, etc.; briefs the Commander and affected supervisors on significant changes.
  • Researches, analyzes, develops, write, and coordinates Command policy dealing with organizational resource functions, such as Standing Operations Procedures (SOPs), position papers, and other informational papers for all assigned program areas.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/4/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/5/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DAKB-26-12877555