Summary You will serve as a HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST (MILITARY) in the Navy Casualty Office {PERS-00C) of NAVY PERSONNEL COMMAND. TERM Not To Exceed 3 years **This position maybe converted to permanent career or career conditional appointment without further competition once all requirements are met. ** Responsibilities You will provide customer service, advisory and technical assistance regarding the review, development, and/or improvement of federal laws, regulations, and policies concerning casualty assistance. You will provide customer service, answering phones; responding to emails; providing information, guidance, and assistance as needed. You will provide customer service such to include researching and providing information responding to inquiries from staff, service members, family members, and others. You will review and analyzes laws and provides advice and assistance on regulations, policies, and other guidance pertaining to federal benefits and entitlements payable to survivors. You will develop and deliver guidance, program evaluations, analyses, findings, recommendations, and training to leadership, management officials, supervisors, employees, etc. You will develop briefs and reports; answering inquiries; and other assistance to improve the operational effectiveness and efficiency of casualty operations. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the 11-grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Reviewing changes to applicable law and senior policy, and generate changes to Navy policy regarding casualty, low-cost term life insurance programs, (e.g., SGLI programs), mortuary affairs, and unification initiatives such as Project Recover, (e.g., POW/MIA identification and recovery); Researching and drafting responses to Congressional inquiries, administrative requests, and actions in response to appropriate official entity, (e.g., Board for Corrections to Naval Records (BCNR)); Developing and/or drafting correspondence pertaining the Casualty Office, (e.g., Navy), operations to include letters, emails, point papers, memorandums, briefing materials, etc… ; AND Review training material and practices for casualty assistance. NOTE: This information must be supported in your resume to be considered for the position. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0200/human-resources-management-series-0201/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Education Additional Information This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category or higher. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/ Military Spouse Preference applicants will receive priority consideration at the Full Performance Level (FPL) and if determined to be Best Qualified at the FPL, and selected, must be placed at the FPL. A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position. PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation. Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.