Human Resources Specialist

Air Mobility Command • MacDill AFB, FL

19d

About The Position

Serves as a Human Resources Specialist at United States Special Operations Command Headquarters (USSOCOM), providing expert management advisory services across a broad range of human resources management areas. The role supports USSOCOM, Special Operations Forces Components, and Theater Special Operations Commands, including in merit promotion, recruitment and placement, affirmative employment, employee and labor-management relations, employment performance and conduct issues, resources management, civilian deployment, and other special programs.

Provides strategic and technical guidance and consultative advice throughout the SOF Enterprise and HQS USSOCOM on using human resources management to support civilian personnel goals and accomplish agency and command missions. Conducts or participates in complex studies, evaluates HR programs, develops and executes improvement plans, reviews policies and practices, and recommends solutions to complex problems. Prepares reports and delivers briefings, training, consultations, orientations, and discussions to command leadership, supervisors, customers, and coworkers; may represent the command at conferences.

Requirements

• At least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade, GS-12, or equivalent.
• Extensive knowledge of federal HR laws, executive orders, regulations, policies, directives, instructions, and concepts governing HR functions such as merit promotion, recruitment and placement, affirmative employment, employee and labor-management relations, and performance and conduct issues.
• Knowledge of advanced federal HR management principles, concepts, practices, analytical methods, qualitative and quantitative techniques, and relationships among HR disciplines; consultative skill to resolve complex problems not susceptible to standard methods.
• Knowledge of organizational structures, missions, objectives, operating programs, key positions, and administrative or protocol policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of structures and functions across a major military command or comparable organization to identify and present options for resolving substantive organizational and program issues involving HR management and related areas.
• Skill in reviewing and analyzing HR program operations, identifying deficiencies, assessing compliance, consistency, and effectiveness, and recommending improvements.
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing and to establish and maintain effective, positive working relationships.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
• Must pass initial and periodic short-notice drug testing.
• Must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements for GS-13 consideration; one year at GS-12 is required for applicable merit promotion applicants.
• Must sign an Air Force-wide mobility agreement; mobility is a condition of employment.
• Must complete the initial online questionnaire and additional assessments.
• Males must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
• Must have direct deposit for federal employment.
• Depending on position type, must serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period and receive written certification for continued employment upon completion.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical guidance and consultative management advisory services on effective use of HR management to support civilian personnel goals and command missions.
• Conduct, lead, or participate in studies to improve HR management programs or influence policy changes, including long-range, complex, and politically sensitive topics.
• Evaluate the full range of HR programs at HQS USSOCOM and SOF Enterprise level, and develop and execute improvement or enhancement plans.
• Review policies and practices, assess their effectiveness, and develop proposals for improvement.
• Develop management interventions and solutions for significant HR issues and complex program-improvement problems.
• Prepare and deliver written reports and oral presentations, including briefings, training sessions, consultations, orientations, and discussions with command leadership, supervisors, customers, and coworkers.
• Conduct or lead conferences as a representative of the command.

Benefits

• A comprehensive federal employee benefits package is mentioned; specific benefits are not itemized.
• Recruitment incentive may be authorized.
• Relocation incentive may be authorized.
• PCS may be paid if authorized.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed