HR Specialist/Classification - DEU Certified

Business Management Associates, Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Management Associates, Inc. (BMA) seeks an experienced HR Staffing Specialist/Classification – DEU Certified to support federal agencies with staffing, classification, and position management.

The contractor will handle GS, AD, SES, and other Federal classifications at varying grades, ensuring compliant descriptions and titles. Responsibilities include reviewing PDs, planning and evaluating hires, and developing long-term recruitment and retention strategies.

Qualifications

• Staffing and placement and classification in the Federal Government.
• Experience performing responsibilities and duties.

Responsibilities

• Review position descriptions and advise on accuracy and appropriateness.
• Assist or conduct Position Management (PM) Reviews and organizational evaluations.
• Review and analyze positions for proper title, series, and grade and advise managers on position management issues.
• Process personnel actions using eOPF, SF-52, and related HR information systems.

Skills

Staffing Support

DEU Certification

Federal HR Experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Business Management Associates, Inc. (BMA) is guided by its mission, 'What's Humanly Possible.' BMA integrates people and processes through service, supported by a strategic focus on people and process, a proven project management methodology, and disciplined internal and external management with financial accountability.

BMA is committed to fostering a respectful workplace where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, or military status. BMA believes diversity and inclusion are essential to its success and seeks to recruit, develop, and retain talented individuals from a diverse candidate pool.

"Love Thy Customer; Love Thy Work; Love Thy System"

Business Management Associates (BMA) is seeking an experienced HR Staffing Specialist/Classification – DEU Certified. The contractor(s) will provide positions at agency to include General Schedule (GS), Administratively Determined (AD), Senior Executive Service (SES), and Excepted Service at various grades.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:

Conduct review of position descriptions and advice on the appropriateness, quality, and accuracy of written descriptions of duty statements. Provide advice for the planning, hiring and evaluation of employees. Develop long term strategies and solutions for recruitment, retention, training, and providing performance management. Prepare draft position descriptions and critique existing position descriptions. Make recommendations regarding the appropriate title, series, and grades of positions in agency or the respective sub-office.

Assist or conduct Position Management (PM) Reviews or other special projects to assist in conducting position management, organizational structure evaluations and occupational reviews collecting relevant information (PDs, organization charts and other relevant information in collaboration with agency business partners and HR officials as needed to meet organizational objectives. Provide advice on pm policies including supervisory ratios, appropriate use of assistant and leader positions, fragmented organizational structures, job restructuring, and impact on positions or employees of planned reorganizations; and provide recommendations for improvements in position and organization structures considering the full range of life cycle requirements. Assist management with planning reorganizations such as consolidation or realignment of existing functions.

Review and analyze positions to determine proper title, series, and grade and advising managers on position management issues. Conduct and respond to desk audit requests and advise managers on the adequacy of position descriptions.

Review, completion and documentation of selections and candidates for positions, annotating SF-52 (Request for Personnel Action). Evaluating and processing personnel action requests such as promotions, reassignments, and separations utilizing various human resources information technology systems (Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF), automated on-boarding systems , personnel action processing systems, electronic SF-52 systems, personnel reporting systems (staffing plans, FTE reports, recruitment tracking systems)

Contractor shall provide services in a range of federal classification functions for a variety of occupations and grades in the General Schedule, Senior Executive Service, Senior Level, Administratively Determined, or other Federal classification systems, in accordance with Title 5, United States Code (USC) or other appropriate authorities. Services may be provided with or without delegation of classification signature authority to line managers, dependent upon agency policies and requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

• Staffing Support Services (Specialist) shall be Delegated Examining Unit (DEU) certified. Non DEU certified Specialist shall obtain certification within thirty (30) days of onboard date.
• Must have extensive background in staffing and placement and classification in the Federal Government
• Must have demonstrated experience performing responsibilities and duties
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government background investigation and must meet eligibility and suitability requirements.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree required and seven (7) years' federal Human Resources experience

At BMA, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. BMA complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which BMA has facilities. BMA believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.