Human Resources Assistant

United-States-Forest-Service; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Forest Service Human Resources Management team seeks a candidate for a clerical-technical HR support role. The position provides advice and assistance on basic HR questions to Specialists across specialized areas.

Applicants must meet General Schedule standards, document experience blocks with dates and hours, and may qualify via a degree or higher education. Emphasis is on accurate data handling, inquiries, and HR processing tasks.

Qualifications

• 1 year of specialized experience at GS-04 level or equivalent for GS-05.
• One year of specialized experience at GS-05 level or equivalent for GS-06.
• Education options include a bachelor's degree or four years of post-high school education.
• Volunteer or paid experience can count toward qualifications per policy.

Skills

Clerical support

Data entry

Customer service

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4 years of education

Job description

This position is for one of the various teams within the U.S. Forest Service Human Resources Management.

This position performs technical work and provides advice and assistance on basic questions in support of Human Resources Specialists for one or more specialized functional areas.

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards.

Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.

Note on Experience:

Your resume must clearly document the following for each block of work experience; the beginning day, month and year the work assignment started and ended; the hours worked per week; position title, and series and grade if applicable; and description of duties performed. This information must be provided for each permanent, temporary or seasonal appointment/work assignment or volunteer work and should be clearly documented as a separate block of time. Incomplete, inaccurate or conflicting work history may not be credited for qualifications purposes. This can result in an applicant not being considered for the position.

Specialized Experience Requirement:

For the GS-05:

Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-04 grade level. Specialized experience is defined as one (1) or more of the following:

• Performed clerical support work and handling sensitive personnel information in human resources, medical, legal, regulatory, or retail customer focused operations;
• Answered inquiries;
• Entered data into automated information systems;
• Reviewed information requests to ensure all required information has been provided.

-OR-

A bachelor's degree or four (4) years of successfully completed education above high school;

-OR-

A combination of successfully completed post-high school education (in excess of the first 60 semester / 90 quarter hours) and specialized experience. The education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.

For the GS-06:

Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 grade level. Specialized experience is defined as two (2) or more of the following:

• Provided technical advice on human resources and personnel request;
• Assisted with a variety of duties within human resources;
• Provided guidance to customers and colleagues on assigned routine human resource request;
• Performed any of a variety of clerical/technical support in areas such as: personnel processing, administering employee payroll, classifications, employee benefits, worker's compensation, employee training and development, personnel security & performance management, recruiting & hiring, or providing human resources customer service to employees.

-OR-

One (1) full year (18 semester / 27 quarter hours) of successfully completed graduate level education if the coursework is directly related to the work of the position (human resources, business admin, public admin, communications, education, information technology, human relations, or social sciences).

-OR-

A combination of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience. The education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university.

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.