Human Resource Specialist

The NISC IV program at Leidos has an opening for a Human Resources Specialist with prior federal experience.  The selected candidate will be required to work out of the FAA DFW office 5 days per week. You will be required to perform professional HR services to a variety of customers/assigned organizations, covering a mixture of HR functions to include, but not limited to; recruitment, staffing/placement, classification, and position management principles, practices, and techniques.

Primary Responsibilities:

• You must provide a full range of HR products and services to address a wide range of complex, interrelated HRM problems and issues.
• Locate and identify qualified candidates for vacancies through competitive and noncompetitive processes.
• Counsel’s applicants, employees, and managers on issues of varying complexity concerning recruitment, staffing, and compensation programs.
• Perform multiple and varying assignments under the limited direction of the HR Branch Manager, supervisor, or team lead.
• Participates in development of creative results-driven approaches to recruitment and placement, strategic rewards, continuous learning, or employee and labor-management relations.
• Apply experience and advanced knowledge applicable to his/her discipline to plan and accomplish assignments and merit system principles to attract, develop, manage, and retain a high quality and diverse workforce.
• Provides employment, staffing, and compensation services to fill paraprofessional, professional, technical, specialized, and related support positions. Plans, coordinates, and implements approved organizational structures that support desired grade/band levels and career pathways.
• Assists managers and supervisors by providing advisory guidance on titles, series, and grade/band levels and in developing credit plannings and other documentation necessary for the recruitment and placement of well-qualified candidates in internal or external competitive staffing actions.
• Identifies, analyzes, and resolves difficult problems (e.g., qualification disputes, controversial staffing issues, etc.); and provides guidance to less experienced staff.
• Research, interprets, and applies HRM laws, rules, regulations, policies, precessions, etc. that are typically general, inapplicable, or have gaps in specificity that require considerable interpretation and/or adaptation for application to issues and problems.
• Drafts and builds job vacancy announcements for the various/multiple occupational job series (e.g., 1825, 2101, and 2152) for publishing.
• Generates candidate referral lists and audits selections ensuring adherence to veteran’s preference; closes referral lists when LOB requests list be closed.
• Evaluates applications and resumes for qualifications and adjudicates veteran’s preference. Tentative issues and firms offer letters (TOL and FOL).
• Initiate hire actions in Workforce Transformation and Tracking Systems (WTTS) and processes new hire action within Federal Personnel Payroll System (FPPS).
• Generates reports detailing applicant’s status: outstanding clearance(s) and TOL/FOL date.
• Research discrepancies to make system corrections and provides management final report.
• Ensures personnel actions are annotated with the appropriate nature of action, legal authority, pay, and remarks; collects/analyzes data and information concerning time-to-fill metrics and accuracy of personnel actions.

• Established policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments but allow considerable discretion for employees to select the most appropriate approach(es) or recommend new approaches.
• Assists management by researching and gathering documents associated with Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaints, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and drafting initial response to Congressional complaints.
• Supports management in developing workforce by assisting in providing critical training to lower grade HR specialists on HR policies, procedures, information systems, veteran’s preference, applicant rating, referring, selection, on-boarding, and hiring.
• Provides quality assurance checks on ratings and new hire accomplished by lower-level specialists.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• BA degree with 4-8 years of prior experience or 10 plus years of experience in lieu of a degree. 

• Must be able to demonstrate considerable independence in planning time and helping a manager, project/program manager, and/or team leader to plan and use assigned resources to accomplish projects/programs/activities.
• Serves as the link between client organizations and the processing center by researching and coordinating technical requirem