HR Specialist (Recruitment and Placement)

HR Specialist (Recruitment and Placement)

Department: Department of Energy

Location(s): Lakewood, Colorado

Salary Range: $99800 - $154280 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is part of the Power Marketing Administration HR Shared Service Center. As an HR Specialist, you will be an expert advisor and technical service provider. This position interprets Federal and DOE-wide policy, legislative and regulatory guidance, or equivalent issues (e.g., reengineering and improving HR processes); develops and prepares management recommendations, interventions for significant HR issues and concerns; works with teams or independently to execute special projects.

Major Duties:

• As an HR Specialist (Recruitment and Placement) at the full performance level, you will: Represent PMA HR SSC rendering expert and authoritative recruitment and placement advisory and technical services. Perform broad reaching, innovative, cross-functional analyses to develop human resources (HR) recommendations responding proactively to specific HR challenges. Manage and/or accomplish the most complex recruitment and placement work assignments, complete extremely difficult and/or complicated projects, regularly requiring identification and resolution of precedent-setting and/or highly controversial operational problems. Complete pre-announcement duties. Conduct recruitment conversations with hiring managers. Work with hiring managers on refining and/or developing recruitment/placement criteria to recruit for hard-to-fill highly technical, professional and/or specialized positions in areas where a shortage of qualified personnel exists. Consult with and expertly advise managers about internal Merit Promotion and external Delegated Examining (DE) vacancy announcements. Establish priorities for filling positions, considering the importance of vacancies to missions, and the availability of qualified internal and/or external candidates to fill positions. Expertly advise customers about recruitment and placement regulatory guidance and its applicability to hiring efforts (e.g., Veterans Preference, USERRA, SME utilization, DHA, etc.). Lead or participate in identification, design, development, and implementation of more efficient ways to deliver recruitment and staffing products and services to assigned organization managers and staff through automated information systems.

Qualifications: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: At the GS-12 grade level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service in the following: Advising management on recruitment strategies and hiring authorities including Delegated Examining (DE), Merit Promotion (MP), and government-wide special hiring authorities for excepted service and competitive service positions; and Experience in all the following staffing functions: identifying competencies and conducting job analyses, creating assessment questionnaires, creating job opportunity announcements using automated HR systems, reviewing application materials for eligibility and qualifications determinations, adjudication of veterans' preference, determining appointment eligibilities, creating ranking and certificate of eligible applicant lists; and Preparing, reviewing and processing a wide variety of personnel actions and ensure accuracy of information and compliance with all applicable regulations and guidelines; and Providing full range of staffing/recruitment and placement consultative services to managers, employees, and applicants; and Responding to human resource inquiries from internal and external stakeholders and applicants; and Conducting quality control and assurance reviews to ensure recruitment and placement actions, case files, and processed personnel actions are accurate, complete, and compliant with federal requirements and agency guidelines. At the GS-13 grade level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service in the following: Experience serving as a subject-matter expert to management on a wide variety of complex, sensitive, and difficult HR issues, including providing authoritative interpretations of policy, regulations, and law; and Proficiency in using automated personnel systems relevant to federal HR (e.g., USA Staffing, HR systems within federal agencies) to process actions, as well as the ability to independently extract, troubleshoot, and resolve difficult issues/problems requiring consideration of the total human resource management program; and Proven expertise in managing the entire recruitment and staffing process for federal agencies, from developing strategic recruitment plans and crediting plans with hiring managers to managing competitive/excepted service appointments, priority placement programs (e.g., PPP, CTAP/ICTAP), and veterans' preference; and A comprehensive background in applying, interpreting, and ensuring compliance with Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Department of Energy (DOE) regulations. This includes experience developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and responding to audits specific to federal HR programs; and Experience planning, evaluating, and leading HR projects and initiatives within a federal agency context. This involves conducting studies, developing solutions to complex problems, and creating guidance and standards for new or changing programs relevant HR operations. Time-in-Grade: Current career or career-conditional GS employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional GS employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to current career or career-conditional federal employees applying for a Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Limit your resume to no more than two (2) pages. If more than two pages are submitted, only the first two pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications.

How to Apply: Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online application, to include submission of the required documentation specified in the Required Documents section. A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the announcement closing date to receive consideration. The application process is as follows: You must have a login.gov account to sign into USAJOBS: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/account/. To begin the application process in USAJOBS, click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all required and supporting documentation. You must click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 pm (ET) on the announcement closing date. You may update your application, including supporting documentation, at any time during the announcement open period by returning to your USAJOBS account, select Update Application: https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To verify the status of your application, during and after the announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account; applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each application status means, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/. If you need help with login.gov or USAJOBS (e.g., account access, Resume Builder) visit the USAJOBS Help Center: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/ If you experience difficulty applying on USAJOBS, after clicking the Apply Online button, or you are experiencing a significant hardship hindering your ability to apply online, the Agency Contact listed in the announcement can assist you during normal business hours. If you receive any system error messages, take screenshots if possible, to aid technical support.

Application Deadline: 2026-03-20