Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Summary This position is located in the Small Business Administration (SBA), Office of Human Resources Solutions (OHRS), Office of HR Systems and Processing Division (HRSPD), in Washington, DC. The incumbent serves as a key subject matter expert in performing a variety of highly complex duties necessary to ensure the efficient and effective processing of personnel and payroll actions. Responsibilities As a Human Resources Specialist, GS-0201-12/13, you will be responsible for: Assisting with program management functions related to personnel, payroll, and compensation related actions. Serving as an expert and trainer for the personnel/payroll system. Conducting analyses, identifies issues, problems, and trends, and providing recommendations on personnel actions, payroll, payroll systems and compensation issues. Preparing HR/Payroll bulletins, procedural and information notices to disseminate to the agency. Reconciling payroll/personnel suspense reports; provides advice and assistance to HR and management in the resolution of complex payroll and processing problems. Analyzing and preparing daily and weekly production reports and discusses problems that affect or relate to the operations and data requirements. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Specialized Experience for GS-12: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service, obtained in either the private or public sector: Executing a variety of personnel actions in accordance with federal laws, policies, rules, and regulations; and Performing management advisory services and/or make informed judgments on specific personnel/payroll management problems or issues to include personnel changes; and Reviewing pay, payroll, and benefit processing data to detect and reconcile pay, payroll errors and discrepancies. These qualifications must be clearly referenced in your resume. Specialized Experience for GS-13: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service, obtained in either the private or public sector: Executing a variety of complex personnel actions in accordance with federal laws, policies, rules, and regulations; and Investigating and resolving processing issues related to compensation and benefits; and Providing advisory services on human resources management transactional processing functions in areas such as payroll, benefits, and awards; and Distributing and balancing workload among employees in accordance with staff workflow, maintains current knowledge and answers other employees' questions on procedures, policies, and directives. These qualifications must be clearly referenced in your resume. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications web site: Human Resources Management Series 0201 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. TIME-IN-GRADE (GS-12): If you are a current career or career-conditional federal employee applying for promotion under Merit Promotion you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in positions at the next level lower than the position being filled. TIME-IN-GRADE (GS-13): If you are a current career or career-conditional federal employee applying for promotion under Merit Promotion you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in positions at the next level lower than the position being filled. All qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 07/10/2024. Education Education may not be substituted for experience for this position. Additional Information This is a non-bargaining unit position This is not a (drug) testing designated position (TDP) Reasonable Accommodation Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended and Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 as amended, that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a reasonable accommodation in your online application. Requests for Reasonable Accommodations for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for Reasonable Accommodation must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable Accommodations are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a Reasonable Accommodation, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for Online Assessments here: https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=Reasonable_Accommodations_for_USA_Hire CTAP/ICTAP: Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) is a program that helps "surplus" or "displaced" federal employees improve their chances of finding a new job in their current agency (intra-agency, i.e. SBA employees only). Inter-Agency Career Transition Assistance (ICTAP) is a program that helps "surplus" or "displaced" federal employees improve their chances of finding a new job at another agency (inter-agency; i.e. not applying to their current or former agency). You are eligible for CTAP/ICTAP if: You are a current federal employee who meets the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee meaning you have received official notice that your job is no longer needed or that you will lose your job by Reduction-in-Force (RIF). Your agency, or the agency to which you are applying, is accepting applications from within or outside of the permanent workforce. The position to which you are applying MUST BE in the Local Commuting Area of the position of record from which you are being displaced. You meet the qualifications and other requirements of the job for which you are applying. This includes being rated as well-qualified for the position (score of 85 or better based on your responses to the competencies and associated questions listed within the assessment). Selective Service: If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System, or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. For additional information visit www.sss.gov. Consistent with work requirements and current SBA Policy, and all applicable provisions of the collective bargaining agreement with AFGE the SBA offers employees opportunities to perform work at an alternative location (e.g. home). Telework may be available. For information on Telework visit: http://www.telework.gov/ Additional vacancies may be filled from this vacancy announcement if additional vacancies occur within 180 days of the date the certificates were issued.