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Posted: February 20, 2026 (1 day ago)

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HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST (RECRUITMENT & PLACEMENT)

Defense Information Systems Agency

Department of Defense

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$121,785 - $158,322

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February 26, 2026More DOD jobs →

GS-13 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $88,520 - $115,079

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-12. Expert-level knowledge in field.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves advising on hiring and placement strategies for government employees, ensuring compliance with federal rules, and analyzing staffing needs to help organizations fill positions effectively.

It suits someone with strong experience in human resources, particularly in recruitment and policy, who enjoys problem-solving and working in a team to support defense agency operations.

Ideal candidates are detail-oriented professionals who can handle complex regulations and provide guidance to managers.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-12 level in federal service, focusing on HR laws, staffing programs, and advisory services
  • 52 weeks of time-in-grade at GS-12 or higher for status applicants
  • Strong knowledge of Civilian Human Resources laws, regulations, and policies for compliance
  • Experience analyzing HR data to identify staffing needs and resolve issues
  • Proficiency in OPM Delegated Examining Unit (DEU) recruitment, selection, and merit promotion policies
  • Ability to conduct studies on HR functions and develop staffing policies and procedures
  • Demonstrated competencies in areas like attention to detail, decision making, customer service, and teamwork

Full Job Description

This position for The Defense Information Systems Agency is at Fort Meade, Maryland .

Time in Grade: For entry at the GS-13 level, status applicants must have served 52 weeks as a GS-12 or higher grade in the Federal Service.

Specialized Experience: For the GS-13, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable in difficulty and responsibility to GS-12 if outside the Federal service.

Specialized experience is defined as experience interpreting Civilian Human Resource laws, regulations, and policies to ensure compliance and analyzing, evaluating, and developing staffing programs (such as recruitment, selection, merit promotion policy); OR analyzing HR data to identify long and short-term needs of the customer and providing guidance to resolve staffing issues and advisory services.

In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirements, qualified applicants must also possess the quality of experience as it relates to how closely or to what extent an applicant's background, recency of experience, education, and training are relevant to the duties and responsibilities of the announced position.

Candidates must clearly demonstrate the possession of competencies necessary to successfully perform the work of the position at the appropriate level to be qualified for the position.

Applicants must describe how their experience meets the competencies within the body of the resume. No separate statements addressing competencies are required.

Competencies: Accountability, Attention to Detail, Customer Service, Decision Making, Flexibility, Influencing/Negotiating, Integrity/Honesty, Interpersonal Skills, Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reasoning, Self-Management, Stress Tolerance, and Teamwork Qualification and time-in-grade requirements must be met within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.

Major Duties:

  • Responsible for advising agency management on a myriad of staffing programs to include OPM Delegated Examining (DEU) recruitment, examination and selection; OPM qualifications regulations, agency merit promotion policy and DOD PPP.
  • Identifies long and short-term needs of serviced organizations. Advise DISA management on recruitment or placement strategies and technical requirements and resolves issues or problems as they arise.
  • Leads and/or conducts broad studies of various Civilian Human Resources functions involving new requirements in program operations, implementation of new legislation, or agency regulations.
  • Develops, amends and provides clarification of DISA staffing policies and procedures impacting DISA.
  • Monitors service provider’s execution of DISA's staffing and classification programs. Performs quality control review of personnel-related actions processed in DCPDS to ensure information integrity with regard to pay setting, Job Announcement.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/20/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/21/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DISA-12892997-26AA