Human Resources Assistant

Executive Office for Immigration Review; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The Executive Office for Immigration Review is seeking a Human Resources Assistant to provide technical support for a broad range of HR operations, including staffing and classification, benefits, and payroll. The position emphasizes time-in-grade requirements and the use of NFC Payroll Processing System and eOPF to update, query, and analyze employee data.

Ideal candidates will understand HR rules, can explain processes to employees and managers, and have strong records management skills for

Qualifications

• Experience using automated systems, including NFC Payroll Processing System, to update and analyze employee actions.
• Knowledge of HR rules and procedures to resolve HR issues and support classification, staffing, benefits, and payroll.
• Ability to explain processes to employees and managers and to present benefits/classification topics.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for HR operations including staffing and classification.
• Assist with benefits and payroll processing.
• Maintain records and suspense files per regulations.
• Explain HR processes to employees and managers.

Skills

HR systems knowledge

Customer guidance

Records management

Data analysis

Education

Graduate education in HR Management

Tools

NFC Payroll Processing System

eOPF

Job description

This position is located in the Office of Administration, Executive Office for Immigration Review, U. S. Department of Justice. Incumbent provides technical support for performance of a wide range of Human Resource (HR) operations to include staffing and classification, benefits and/or payroll. This is a Competitive Service position; additional positions may be filled from this announcement within 90 days of certificate issuance.

In order to qualify for the Human Resources Assistant position, you must meet the following time in grade requirements and minimum qualifications:

TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENTS:

Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F. (Please submit your SF-50 that shows Time-in-Grade eligibility and reflects your title, series, and grade. If your eligibility for both merit promotion and/or time-in-grade cannot be determined, your application will be rated ineligible. Please see Required Documents for additional information).

Time-in-grade requirements also apply to VEOA applicants having held a GS position in the past year.

FOR THE GS-08 LEVEL:

Specialized Experience:

• Demonstrated experience using a variety of automated systems, including NFC Payroll Processing System, to update, query, retrieve, and analyze information to document employee actions, resolve problems or discrepancies and to audit and track data needed for reports;
• Demonstrated knowledge of HR rules, terms, procedures, and requirements in order to resolve/process nonstandard issues related to HR automated systems, provide guidance to customers, and to perform a range of technical and administrative work in support of HR classification, staffing/recruitment, and/or benefits, and/or payroll functions;
• Demonstrated experience in explaining processes and procedures to employees and managers; conducting new employee orientation; and/or making presentations or briefings for benefits and/or classification and staffing;
• Demonstrated experience in records management to document files, upload, scan, retrieve, remove information and maintain suspense records in accordance with regulations.

(Your resume must CLEARLY demonstrate this experience)

FOR THE GS-07 LEVEL:

Specialized Experience:

• Providing support assistance in areas such as classification, staffing/recruitment, benefits, and/or payroll.
• Using general office automation software and other office equipment to process data, compose correspondence, and generate reports using applicable databases, graphics, spreadsheets, and word processing.
• Processing a full range of routine personnel and pay actions across multiple systems that require researching and interpreting established HR rules, procedures, and operations.
• Researching, documenting, and resolving a number of personnel requests using a variety of automated systems, such as NFC Payroll Processing System and eOPF, to code, input or correct data.

OR

Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience for GS 07 level:

Graduate education or an internship meets the specialized experience required above GS-5 only in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position, such as Human Resources Management, Business Administration, Human Services, etc. One full year of graduate education meets the requirements for GS-7.

OR

Combination of Education and Experience:

A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) by 18. Add the two percentages.

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

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