Supervisory Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment & Placement) - Staffing Chief

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/22/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. The BASIC REQUIREMENT for the HR Specialist GS-0201 series is presumed met if found qualified at the GS-0201-7 level and above. To qualify for this position at the GS-14 level, you must meet one of the following listed Criteria: Criteria 1: I have a graduate level degree or higher in one of the below programs and three (3) years of progressive specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in federal service. **Educational Programs: HR, HR development, HR management, business, business management/administration, industrial relations, labor relations, industrial psychology, organizational psychology, organizational development, management, organizational behavior, pre-law/law, legal studies, health care management/administration, public administration, public policy, human services, leadership and/or humanities. **Specialized experience includes: resolving complex and controversial human resources administration problems; application of a wide range of HR concepts, principles, laws, regulations, and practices; providing custom recruitment strategies and consultative services based upon occupational knowledge of current local and regional market area; application of veterans' preference regulations, Special Hiring Authorities (VRA, CPS, Schedule A, etc.), and flexibilities; and performing various lead and/or supervisory duties such as assigning or redistributing workload, providing advice to subordinate staff, and providing training to supervisors/managers. Criteria 2: I have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level as described in this announcement. Qualifying specialized experience includes: Applying Human Resource Management administration skills; analyzing trends to develop changes in procedures; planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and/or facilitating Human Resource policies and practices; persuading others to accept change to policies and procedures; advising staff on difficult and unusual recruitment, placement and pay issues or problems; and performing various lead and/or supervisory duties such as assigning or redistributing workload, providing advice to subordinate staff, and providing training to supervisors/managers.

Preferred Experience: Complex recruitment and placement experience and previous supervisory experience.

Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.