Human Resources Assistant (OA)

Summary The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia is distinct among United States Attorney’s Offices due to the breadth and scale of its work. It acts as both the local and the federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital. Locally, it handles cases ranging from misdemeanor drug possession to murders, while federally, it handles cases ranging from child pornography to gang, financial fraud, and terrorism. The Office represents the district in civil suits.

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If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for providing Human Resources Assistant support in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia, located in Washington, District of Columbia, focusing in the areas of onboarding, personnel processing and office automation.

Typical Work Assignments Will Include

• Processes New Hire documentation and facilitates New Hire Onboarding.
• Utilizes knowledge of the Empower HR (HER) system to process the spectrum of personnel actions for teams to include those of unusual, unprecedented, or difficult nature such as assignments or details to state governments, foreign countries, or international organizations; and special appointments such as various student employment programs.
• Produces a variety of written documents utilizing varied and advanced functions in each of several types of office automation software, i.e., word processing, database management or spreadsheet.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys’ Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/.

As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
• You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
• If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.
• As required, a probationary period may be required.

Qualifications To qualify for the Human Resources Assistant at the G6, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 in Federal service.

Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized Experience is defined as assisting with pre-employment processing and onboarding; researching a variety of employee benefits issues to advise eligible employees on health benefits, life insurance, retirement coverage; assists with reviewing documents for accuracy and completeness, reconciling errors, and obtaining additional information as required; establishing and maintaining a variety of personnel files; entering information into an automated system or database.

To be qualified, you must type at least 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors. (A typing test may later be required.)

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)- The ICTAP provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your ICTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in the announcement; and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide proof of eligibility to receive selection priority. Such proo…