Summary

The HR Officer position is in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Office of People Science, Human Resources Office. The OIT HR offers recruitment and staffing, onboarding, personnel security, position management, and performance management and awards for all employees within OIT.

Return to Office (RTO): RTO mandates are in affect and selectees will be required to report to in person work unless they have an approved exemption.

Duties

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Major Duties:

• Develops and oversees comprehensive long-range work plans and schedules for HR functions, including annual, multi-year, and similar types of plans.
• Ensures successful implementation of goals and objectives for the HR program, exercising delegated managerial authority.
• Determines staffing needs on a long-range basis, forming and directing teams and/or independently completing HR and other projects.
• Leads and improves the overall resource governance, management, and performance of the HR program applying sound business principles, exercising budgeting and fiscal accountability, and linking strategic program planning to budgeting and fiscal performance.
• Develops technical requirements and detailed descriptions for HR work to be accomplished, setting clear work schedules, deadlines, and quality standards.
• Coordinates and integrates Service Level Agreement work and processes with the work of internal staff, including recruitment and staffing; onboarding; delegated examining; personnel security functions specifically with designating risk and security levels for positions; perform position management functions except for staffing models and organization change management; and performance management and awards for employees.
• Maintains oversight of progress, quality, and performance of HR services, including decisions on the acceptability, rejection, or correction of work products or services affecting Service Level Agreement payment.
• Prioritizing and overseeing assignments in a manner that optimizes workflow, resource allocation, and employee efficiency.
• Implementing HR automation initiatives and conducting regular workload analyses to enhance resource management.

Position Description/PD#: Human Resources Officer/PD70001-0

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Travel Required: Occasional travel may be required as needed for this position.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; Tour of duty will be determined based on organizational needs.

Compressed/Flexible: As determined by the Agency Policy

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Physical Demands: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment. A pre-placement physical examination is not required.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Selectee is subject to background/suitability investigation.
• Selected applicant will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
• Complete the initial online assessment and USAHire Assessment, if required.
• To be considered for this position, applicants must complete all required steps in the process.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period, or 2-year trial perid, during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:
  - your performance and conduct;
  - the needs and interests of the agency;
  - whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
  - whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
  Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
• A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected. The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher rate of pay.
• This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, all qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/02/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For the GS-15 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-14. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

The BASIC REQUIREMENT for the HR Specialist GS-0201 series is presumed met if found qualified at the GS-0201-7 level and above. To qualify for this position at the GS-15 level, you must meet one of the following listed Criteria:

• Criteria 1: Graduate Degree and Specialized Experience: Successful completion of a graduate level degree or higher and three years of progressive specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 grade level. Qualifying specialized experience includes: providing technical and administrative guidance on human capital policies, regulatory requirements, and internal controls; directing a federal recruitment and staffing program, to include but not limited to: position management and recruitment/placement for all competitive and excepted service hiring authorities; and overseeing and managing employee and labor relations.

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• Criteria 2: Specialized Experience: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Qualifying specialized experience includes: providing guidance to senior executives and high-level program officials on complex human resources policies, regulatory compliance, and human capital strategies; supervising and leading multidisciplinary teams by establishing priorities, managing performance, allocating resources, and ensuring successful execution of activities such as benefits, compensation, classification, employee and labor relations, and recruitment and placement; as well as holding senior HR staff accountable for the delivery of human capital programs, including factors such as effectiveness, timeliness, compliance, and risk mitigation.

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; religions; 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.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing part of your qualifications on education.

Education must be from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For additional information, refer to the U.S. Department of Education web site at http://www.ed.gov.

Submit a copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) or you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the courses.

Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. For example, specific courses accepted for college-level credit by an accredited U.S. college or university, or foreign education evaluated by an organization recognized for accreditation by the Department of Education as education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. college or university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications for more information.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position.

Additional information

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

OIT has multiple worksites at various duty locations, and the individual(s) selected may be assigned to any federal government work site. This announcement will NOT be used for changing duty locations. If selected, and you are a current VA employee, and not on an approved exemption, you will continue to report to your current duty location. If selected you will be required to report to one of the following locations:

• Albany, NY
• Anaheim, CA
• Atlanta, GA
• Aurora, CO
• Austin, TX
• Cleveland, OH
• Davidson, TN
• Denver, CO
• Detroit, MI
• Eatontown, NJ
• Hines, IL
• Houston, TX
• Long Beach, CA
• Los Angeles, CA
• Murfreesboro, TN
• Nashville, TN
• Orlando, FL
• Philadelphia, PA
• Pittsburgh, PA
• Salt Lake City, UT
• San Antonio, TX
• Shepherdstown, WV
• Tampa, FL
• Washington, DC

If space is not immediately available a temporary exception to telework may be granted. If/when workspace is identified, the employee is expected to report to their assigned duty location.

The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website which can be found at https://www.opm.gov/.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.