Human Resources Officer

Human Resources Officer Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Educion Office of Human Resources Summary This position is part of the Director, Bureau of Indian Educion, Department of the Interior. As a Human Resources Officer you responsible for the stregic direction, integrion, management, and oversight of all BIE human resources programs, systems, and services supporting BIE's nionwide operions. Before applying, you're encouraged to learn more about federal human resources careers by ing the

HR Career Compass :

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OPM.gov/HRCareerCompass Learn more about this agency Summary This position is part of the Director, Bureau of Indian Educion, Department of the Interior. As a Human Resources Officer you responsible for the stregic direction, integrion, management, and oversight of all BIE human resources programs, systems, and services supporting BIE's nionwide operions. Before applying, you're encouraged to learn more about federal human resources careers by ing the

HR Career Compass :

www.

OPM.gov/HRCareerCompass Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/04/2026 to 05/19/2026 Salary $147,945 - $197,200 per year Pay scale & grade GS 15 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: See the "Additional Informion" section for all Duty Locions to be considered Locion Negotiable After Selection Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) 0201 Human Resources Management Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Not Required Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk High Risk (HR) Trust determinion process Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure Yes Bargaining unit stus No Announcement number

BIE-12952921-26-SL

Control number 867831600 This job is open to Help Federal employees - Competitive service Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Veterans Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference Military spouses Military spouses of active duty service members or whose spouse is 100 percent disabled or died on active duty. Individuals with disabilities Individuals who are eligible under Schedule A. Nive Americans Nive Americans or Alaskan Nives with a tribal affiliion. Clarificion from the agency

INDIAN PREFERENCE

Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candides in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (25 U.S.C. 5116 (reclassified from 472)). Verificion Form

BIA 4432

must be submitted with the applicion if claiming Indian Preference. Indian preference eligibles may be appointed under the Excepted Service Appointment Authority Schedule

A, 213.3112

(A)(7). Duties Help As a Human Resources Officer, GS-0201-15, your typical work assignments will include the following under supervision: Oversees all BIE human resources programs including staffing, recruitment, labor and employee relions, benefits, personnel security, classificion, performance management, workforce development, and HR systems ensuring consistent, compliant, high-quality service delivery across the organizion. Leads HR policy development, stregic workforce initiives, budget management, and administrion of specialized HR systems, including the

P.L. 95-561

Contract Educion Personnel System for BIE-opered schools. Evalues HR programs and supervises subordine HR supervisors, overseeing operions for quality, compliance, effectiveness, fiscal accountability, and implementing process improvements. Establishes goals and expections, stregic planning, managing oversight of performance, discipline, and staffing decisions, ensuring consistent applicion of Federal Laws, Regulions, HR policies, Merit System Principles, Indian Preference, and internal controls to foster service excellence. Provides expert service-oriented HR guidance to BIE leadership on personnel issues, organizional changes, workforce impacts, and emerging challenges, while collaboring with internal/external agencies. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Be sure to read the 'How to Apply' and 'Required Documents' Sections. U.S. Citizenship is required. A background security investigion required for all new hires. Appointment subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigion and favorable adjudicion. As a condition of employment, you required to serve a 2-year trial or 1-year probionary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest evalued. Appointment may be subject to a 1-year supervisory probionary period unless the requirement has already been met. If you are a male applicant born after 12-31-1959, you are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act and the Defense Authorizion Act of 1986 (https://www.sss.gov), in order to be eligible for appointment to this agency. Driving Requirement (Required only time of appointment): Incumbent may be required, as an incidental duty, to opere a government-owned or leased motor vehicle, in the performance of duties, therefore, a valid driver's license is required. Financial Stement Requirements (Required only time of appointment): The candide selected for this position must meet conflict of interest requirements of the Bureau of Indian Educion (OGE Form 450 Confidential Financial Disclosure Report). Qualificions Applicants must meet the qualificion requirements contained in the OPM Standards . For this position, they are listed below.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

Experience th equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and th is typically in or reled to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupion in the organizion.

GS-0201-15

One (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to least the GS-14 grade level in the federal service.

Examples of specialized experience includes:

Oversee daily human resources operions, evalue performance, and improve service delivery across a nionwide organizion. Manage budgets and ensure fiscal accountability for HR programs and initiives. Advise senior leadership on HR policies, regulions, and workforce impacts. Develop or upde opering procedures to ensure compliance with federal law and Departmental guidance. Represent HR high level meetings to dissemine informion and resolve significant personnel program mters.

Time-In-Grade Requirements:

Merit Promotion (stus) candides must have completed one year (52 weeks) of service the next lower grade level. Learn more about wh is time-in grade. All qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of this announcement. Educion This position does not have a positive educion requirement this grade level. Therefore, no transcripts are required. Additional informion

THE DUTY LOCATION FOR THE POSITION WILL BE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

Albuquerque, NM Oklahoma City, OK Washington, D.C. Initial appointments to the competitive or excepted service: The probionary or trial period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organizion goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: Your performance and conduct; The needs and interests of the agency; Whether your continued employment would advance organizional goals of the agency or the Government; and Whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probionary or trial period automically termines when th period ends unless the agency affirmively certifies, in writing, th the individual's employment should continue and th their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmively certify continued employment beyond the probionary or trial period, such appointments are termined. Upon completion of your probionary or trial period your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest . Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP)/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP)

Documention:

The

CTAP/ICTAP

provides placement assistance (click here for more details, here for DOI's policy) to permanent Federal civilian employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed. Applicants claiming eligibility must submit a 1) copy of their most recent performance appraisal, 2) proof of eligibility, 3) most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion with their applicion. To be considered, applicants must be well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including any selective placement factors; educion, and experience requirements), score least 85 on the assessment questionnaire, and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry.

Stus Candides:

Considerion given to Non-Indian applicants ( Stus or Reinstement eligibles) in the absence of a qualified Indian preference eligible. Applicants not entitled to Indian Preference or Veteran's Preference must be Federal civilian employees with competitive stus or former Federal civilian employees with reinstement eligibility and must submit lest Notificion of Personnel Action, SF-50, as proof. Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA): Preference eligibles may apply for permanent positions (career or career-conditional appointments) under merit promotion procedures for VEOA appointments; however, veteran's preference is not a factor in these appointments. To be eligible for a VEOA appointment, a veteran must be a preference eligible OR veteran separed after 3 or more years of continuous active service performed under honorable conditions. Applicants must submit a copy of their DD-214 (Member Copy 4) for verificion of eligibility. For more informion about this program and to determine whether you are eligible, click here . Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documention used to determine if you meet the qualificions listed on this announcement. To determine if you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documention compared to your applicion to determine your level of experience. Please follow all instructions carefully, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the applicion and applicion questionnaire, this position requires successful completion of additional assessments, which may include a medical examinion, drug test, physical readiness test, written examinion, and structured interview. These assessments measure the critical competencies required to successfully perform the job. This position requires successful completion of the following assessment: SME Resume Review and SME Structured Interview. These assessments measure the critical competencies th are required to successfully perform the job in the following areas:

Customer Service, Leadership, Managing Human Resources, Planning and Evaluing, and Technical Competence Note:

If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you infled your qualificions and or experience, you may lose considerion. Errors or omissions may affect your qualificion. Providing inaccure informion on Federal documents could be grounds for non-selection or disciplinary action. To preview the assessment questionnaire, click here: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12952921 Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1. Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, des specified in month and year form, and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rher than indicing full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annoted to be able to pro-re the amount of qualified specialized experience. If military or civilian, please include your rank and/or grade. For more informion see How do I write a resume for a federal job? Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions. 2. Complete all required assessments. 3. All other supporting documents (if applicable) such as:

Current & Former Federal Employees:

Most recent SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action , if applying as a stus candide with current or former Federal Service. An SF-50 showing your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted and should include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware th award SF-50's do not provide sufficient informion and will not be accepted for the purpose of verifying time-in-grade. Due Weight for Performance Appraisals and Awards, please submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act or achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, please submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. If claiming Indian Preference, Form

BIA 4432

. The form must be completed by the approprie official with the Federally recognized tribe where the applicant is enrolled as a member. No other form accepted. If claiming Veterans Preference , you must submit your preference eligibility documents or certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty . If you are claiming 5-points veterans' preference, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 (member 4 copy) or other proof of eligibility. If you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference, you must also submit an SF-15 plus the proof required by th form including your DD-214 ( member 4 copy ), SF-15 and VA letter , or other proof of eligibility.

CTAP/ICTAP

Documention , if applicable. 1) Proof of eligibility (e.g., Certificion of Expected Separion, Reduction-In-Force (RIF) Separion Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal); 2) SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action; and 3) most recent performance appraisal.

FORMER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

Are required to indice whether they received a Voluntary Separion Incentive Payment (VSIP) buyout in their previous employment with the Federal government and are required to submit a copy of the applicable SF-50 regarding the VSIP. The majority of individuals, who accept reemployment with the Federal government within 5 years of receiving the VSIP amount, must repay the gross amount of the separion pay prior to reemployment. Learn more about buyouts .

NOTE:

Persons submitting incomplete applicions given credit only for the informion they provide. The applicant is responsible for submitting all required documention in support of their applicion in order to receive full credit for their Indian preference, veteran preference, experience, training, and/or educion as applicable.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE SOLICITED FROM THIS OFFICE.

How to Apply Help A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process . You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE AND/OR EMPLOYMENT STATUS.

To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account , all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you are unable to apply online, require reasonable accommodion in the applicion process, or an applicant with a disability, please contact Sasha Lewis (480)500-9537 or sasha.lewis@bie.edu for alterne applicion instructions. Notificion to

Applicants:

Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur within 90 days from the closing de. Agency contact informion Sasha Lewis Phone (480)500-9537 sasha.lewis@bie.edu Address Director, Bureau of Indian Educion 1849 C Street

NW/MS-3609 MIB

Washington, DC 20240 US Next steps Once the online questionnaire is received you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. After a review of your complete applicion is made you notified by email of your ring and or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluion or interviews are required you contacted. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1. Resume which includes a list of all significant jobs held and duties performed, des specified in month and year form, and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rher than indicing full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annoted to be able to pro-re the amount of qualified specialized experience. If military or civilian, please include your rank and/or grade. For more informion see How do I write a resume for a federal job? Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions. 2. Complete all required assessments. 3. All other supporting documents (if applicable) such as:

Current & Former Federal Employees:

Most recent SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action , if applying as a stus candide with current or former Federal Service. An SF-50 showing your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted and should include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware th award SF-50's do not provide sufficient informion and will not be accepted for the purpose of verifying time-in-grade. Due Weight for Performance Appraisals and Awards, please submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act or achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, please submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. If claiming Indian Preference, Form

BIA 4432

. The form must be completed by the approprie official with the Federally recognized tribe where the applicant is enrolled as a member. No other form accepted. If claiming Veterans Preference , you must submit your preference eligibility documents or certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty . If you are claiming 5-points veterans' preference, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 (member 4 copy) or other proof of eligibility. If you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference, you must also submit an SF-15 plus the proof required by th form including your DD-214 ( member 4 copy ), SF-15 and VA letter , or other proof of eligibility.

CTAP/ICTAP

Documention , if applicable. 1) Proof of eligibility (e.g., Certificion of Expected Separion, Reduction-In-Force (RIF) Separion Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal); 2) SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action; and 3) most recent performance appraisal.

FORMER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

Are required to indice whether they received a Voluntary Separion Incentive Payment (VSIP) buyout in their previous employment with the Federal government and are required to submit a copy of the applicable SF-50 regarding the VSIP. The majority of individuals, who accept reemployment with the Federal government within 5 years of receiving the VSIP amount, must repay the gross amount of the separion pay prior to reemployment. Learn more about buyouts .

NOTE:

Persons submitting incomplete applicions given credit only for the informion they provide. The applicant is responsible for submitting all required documention in support of their applicion in order to receive full credit for their Indian preference, veteran preference, experience, training, and/or educion as applicable.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE SOLICITED FROM THIS OFFICE.

How to Apply Help A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process . You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE AND/OR EMPLOYMENT STATUS.

To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account , all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you are unable to apply online, require reasonable accommodion in the applicion process, or an applicant with a disability, please contact Sasha Lewis (480)500-9537 or sasha.lewis@bie.edu for alterne applicion instructions. Notificion to

Applicants:

Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur within 90 days from the closing de. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Sasha Lewis Phone (480)500-9537 sasha.lewis@bie.edu Address Director, Bureau of Indian Educion 1849 C Street

NW/MS-3609 MIB

Washington, DC 20240 US Next steps Once the online questionnaire is received you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. After a review of your complete applicion is made you notified by email of your ring and or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluion or interviews are required you contacted. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/04/2026 to 05/19/2026 Salary $147,945 - $197,200 per year Pay scale & grade GS 15 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: See the "Additional Informion" section for all Duty Locions to be considered Locion Negotiable After Selection Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

BIE-12952921-26-SL

Control number 867831600