Total 3 Human Resources job vacancies in Boston, Massachusetts

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The Human Resources Specialist (Strategic Business Partner) applies a wide range of HR concepts, principles, laws, regulations, and practices, to include OPM requirements, VHA specific policy and labor organization agreements for Title 5, Hybrid T38 and full Title 38 positions. Human Resources Specialist provides custom recruitment strategies and consultative services based upon occupational knowledge of current local and regional market area, and resolves difficult and controversial internal and external staffing and placement problems. Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Evaluates applications and resumes using Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Veterans Administration (VA) qualification standards, verifies eligibility, and rates and ranks applicants;
• Processes a variety of requests for personnel action to fill a variety of positions;
• Provides technical advice and assistance to the HR staff and management officials in all areas of staffing and recruitment, including priority placement, direct hiring, special hiring authorities, etc.;
• Advises and consults on targeted recruitment strategies and non-traditional recruitment opportunities specific to the local and regional market area, such as conducting targeted job fairs and community outreach, utilizing social media, planning recruitment campaigns, etc.;
• Consults on a variety of factor in the recruitment process, such as position management and organizational design; pay administration for Title 5, Title 38, and Hybrid employees; VetPro Credentialing; position descriptions, functional statements, scopes of practice; and job analysis;
• Evaluates trends in missions, technology, manpower, fiscal resources, and other factors influencing future needs;
• Applies quantitative and qualitative data to advise local, regional and national leadership in regard to recruitment trends, such as providing data in annual workforce planning cycles and advanced recruitment strategies; and
• Recommends strategies for overcoming employment barriers;
• Completes a variety of difficult and complex work assignments to provide consultative services to HR staff and Service Chiefs at Network facilities on technical matters which involve recruitment decisions, and pay related issues such as pay responding to employee inquiries, initiating recruitment incentives, LEAF requests, and SLRP packages;
• Conducts detailed planning to gather and interpret information and data for assessing complex staffing problems, issues and unusual circumstances such as Equal Opportunity Employment (EEO) data gathering, Labor Partnership Council, Congressional Inquiries, and Awards Board related activities.

• This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.
• This position is covered by locality pay.
• Relocation expenses are not authorized.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• This position is in the Competitive Service.
• Time-in-Grade Restriction: 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. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service.
• Employee must meet requirements by the closing date of this posting.
• On-site presence is required for this position.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will, serve as the Employee Services Branch Chief, reporting to the Mission Support Director. You will provide advisory services to the Region in the areas of recruitment and placement, organizational development and position management and other human resources programs and services. Typical assignments include:

• Planning, developing, and implementing a comprehensive personnel management program.
• Providing authoritative advice and innovative direction on all aspects of human resources management.
• Providing expertise and guidance on workforce expansion, such as, right sizing and re-organization, along with external and internal recruitment and placement.
• Resolving complaints and grievances with Labor and Employee Relations in coordination with Alternate Dispute Resolution.
• Performing research and providing expert policy recommendation and interpretations.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will, serve as the Employee Services Branch Chief, reporting to the Mission Support Director. You will provide advisory services to the Region in the areas of recruitment and placement, organizational development and position management and other human resources programs and services. Typical assignments include:

• Planning, developing, and implementing a comprehensive personnel management program.
• Providing authoritative advice and innovative direction on all aspects of human resources management.
• Providing expertise and guidance on workforce expansion, such as, right sizing and re-organization, along with external and internal recruitment and placement.
• Resolving complaints and grievances with Labor and Employee Relations in coordination with Alternate Dispute Resolution.
• Performing research and providing expert policy recommendation and interpretations.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.