Onboarding Specialist
About The Position
AvantGarde, LLC (AG) seeks a full-time Employee Onboarding Specialist to support a federal agency client by providing end-to-end support for federal employee and contractor onboarding activities. The Specialist ensures personnel actions, required documentation, system entries, and pre-employment requirements are completed accurately and timely. The role serves as a primary point of contact for selectees, employees, hiring managers, and HR stakeholders throughout onboarding, delivering responsive, customer-focused support. This is a telework-approved position supporting client human resources operations and mission requirements.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and track onboarding activities from initial selection through entry on duty (EOD).
- Review onboarding packages for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with established federal HR requirements and agency procedures.
- Initiate, process, monitor, and update onboarding actions within applicable federal HR and personnel systems.
- Communicate with selectees about required forms, documentation, deadlines, appointments, and onboarding requirements.
- Coordinate with HR specialists, hiring managers, security, badging, IT, payroll, and other functional stakeholders to facilitate timely onboarding.
- Monitor completion of pre-employment requirements, including suitability/security processing, credentialing, required forms, and other applicable conditions of employment.
- Track onboarding cases and proactively identify missing information, outstanding requirements, or potential delays.
- Maintain accurate employee and onboarding records in accordance with agency procedures and federal records requirements.
- Provide timely status updates to candidates, managers, HR personnel, and other stakeholders.
- Respond to onboarding questions and resolve routine issues or escalate complex matters to appropriate HR or program personnel.
- Support onboarding-related reporting, data calls, audits, quality-control reviews, and process improvement activities.
- Ensure sensitive personnel information and personally identifiable information (PII) are handled.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
