Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement)

Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement) Department of Energy Department of Energy

• Agency Wide Power Marketing Administrion HR d Service Center, Talent Acquisition Branch (21100) Summary This position is part of the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer
• Power Marketing Administrion HR d Service Center.

As a Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement), you will represent the

PMA HR SSC

as an advisor and service provider. Learn more about this agency Summary This position is part of the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer

• Power Marketing Administrion HR d Service Center.

As a Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement), you will represent the

PMA HR SSC

as an advisor and service provider. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/14/2026 to 05/22/2026 Salary $83,265

• $129,742 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11
• 12 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Lakewood, CO Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—Situional, as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• Occasional travel up to 15% annually is required, with overnight travel possible during all or part of the time.

Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 13 Job family (Series) 0201 Human Resources Management Supervisory stus No Security clearance Not Required Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Modere Risk (MR) Trust determinion process Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus No Announcement number 26-PW-00624-12961475-MP Control number 869255200 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. Land and base management Current or former employees of a base management agency. 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. Family of overseas employees Family members of a federal employee or uniformed service member who is or was, working overseas. Peace Corps & AmeriCorps Vista Individuals who have served least 2 years with the Peace Corps or 1 year with AmeriCorps VISTA. Special authorities Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed in another hiring ph. Clarificion from the agency Current Federal employees with competitive stus or other eligibility; Former Federal employees with reinstement eligibility;

CTAP/ICTAP

eligibles; Veterans with VOW, VEOA, or 30% disability; Military Spouses; Individuals with Disabilities Schedule A; Peace Corps, Vista (AmeriCorps) eligibles; Those eligible under an OPM interchange agreement or other special appointing authority. Duties Help As a Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement) the full performance level, you will: Represent

PMA HR SSC

rendering expert and authoritive recruitment and placement advisory and technical services. Perform broad reaching, innovive, cross-functional analyses to develop human resources (HR) recommendions responding proactively to specific HR challenges. Manage and/or accomplish the most complex recruitment and placement work assignments, complete extremely difficult and/or compliced projects, regularly requiring identificion and resolution of precedent-setting and/or highly controversial operional problems. Complete pre-announcement duties. Conduct recruitment conversions with hiring managers. Work with hiring managers on refining and/or developing recruitment/placement criteria to recruit for hard-to-fill highly technical, professional and/or specialized positions in areas where a shortage of qualified personnel exists. Consult with and expertly advise managers about internal Merit Promotion and external Deleged Examining (DE) vacancy announcements. Establish priorities for filling positions, considering the importance of vacancies to missions, and the availability of qualified internal and/or external candides to fill positions. Expertly advise customers about recruitment and placement regulory guidance and its applicability to hiring efforts (e.g., Veterans Preference, USERRA, SME utilizion, DHA, etc.). Lead or participe in identificion, design, development, and implemention of more efficient ways to deliver recruitment and staffing products and services to assigned organizion managers and staff through automed informion systems. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional. This employer participes in the e-Verify program. Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service. Suitable for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigion. May be required to successfully complete a probionary/trial period. Employees serving on a probionary or trial period may be termined any time during the probionary or trial period for performance, conduct, or business-reled reasons in the interest of Federal service. Limit your resume to no more than two (2) pages. If more than two pages are submitted, only the first two pages reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualificions. In accordance with Executive Order 14170, applicants are encouraged to respond to the four short, free-response, essay questions in the questionnaire. Answers to these questions are not scored or red. Your answers reviewed by the hiring manager and agency leadership if you are referred for selection considerion. Security clearance and associed requirements

• modere risk.

Duties may require the employee to obtain and maintain an approprie security clearance to provide recruitment and placement advisory services and transactions involving classified informion. Promotion to the FPL [GS-13] is contingent on obtaining and maintaining Deleged Examining Certificion. Total salary varies depending on locion of position. Qualificions

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

A qualified candide's online applicion and resume must demonstre least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the Federal service. At the GS-11 grade level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service in the following: Supporting onboarding tasks, responding to inquiries, and assisting with HR projects or da analysis; Applying Federal hiring policies and procedures to ensure compliance; Using automed systems to review applicions and support hiring processes; and Assisting with recruitment and placement activities and supporting staffing actions.

OR Educion:

Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level gradue educion leading to such a degree or LL.M., if reled.

OR Combinion:

A combinion of higher-level gradue educion and specialized experience th together meet the qualificions of this position. At the GS-12 grade level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service in the following: Advising management on recruitment stregies, staffing regulions, and hiring processes; Executing full-cycle staffing actions using automed systems (e.g., USA Staffing); Responding to human resource inquiries from internal and external stakeholders and applicants; and Conducting quality control and assurance reviews to ensure recruitment and placement actions, case files, and processed personnel actions are accure, complete, and compliant with federal requirements and agency guidelines.

Time-in-Grade :

Current career or career-conditional GS employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional GS employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b).

Note:

Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to current career or career-conditional federal employees applying for a Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Limit your resume to no more than two (2) pages. Educion If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Foreign educion must be reviewed by an organizion recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. For special instructions pertaining to foreign educion and a list of organizions th can evalue foreign educion, see the Department of Educion website . DO NOT email or mail in any of your applicion documents. Documents will not be accepted outside of the online applicion system. Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. Additional informion This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional similar vacancies across DOE. For general informion on government-wide Telework polices : www.telework.gov . Applicants may request Reasonable Accommodion (RA) when applying or competing for a job due to a medical condition or to exercise religious beliefs. If you need reasonable accommodion in the applicion or selection process, please contact the Agency Contact listed on this vacancy announcement. If selection is made a lower grade, promotion up to the full performance level may be made without further competition. However, promotion(s) will depend on the performance of the incumbent and are not guaranteed. Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) costs are not authorized. This position may be eligible for creditable service towards annual leave. Federal Employees earn annual leave a re (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. DOE may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-reled non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the re which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment de and is not guaranteed.

Salary:

The salary range indiced in this announcement adjusted to include locality payment for selected duty locion. General Schedule locality pay tables may be found under Salaries & Wages . 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 . 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 applicion process is complete, the first two pages of your resume and supporting documention used to determine whether you meet the job qualificions. The Department of Energy uses an applicion tracking system to evalue the scores provided from the USA Hire Assessment to place you into an initial quality cegory. These cegories are "Best Qualified", "Well Qualified", and "Qualified."

Minimum Qualificions:

Once the applicion process is complete, the Human Resources Office will review the first two pages of your resume and supporting documention to determine whether you meet the minimum job qualificions. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses you provided in your online questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documention before the vacancy closes, you may be red 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score may be adjusted accordingly. Your qualificions evalued on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): Accountability Attention to Detail Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Influencing/Negotiing Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork All qualified Non-competitive applicants and the best qualified Merit Promotion and VEOA applicants referred to the hiring manager for considerion.

Career Transition Assistance Programs:

To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet the eligibility criteria; and 2) be red "well-qualified". You must meet all qualificions and eligibility requirements by the closing de (05/22/2026) of this announcement.

USAHire:

To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the applicion and applicion questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.

Reasonable Accommodion Requests:

If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended, th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a reasonable accommodion in your online applicion. Requests for Reasonable Accommodions for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for Reasonable Accommodion must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable Accommodions are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a Reasonable Accommodion, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments here . To preview the Assessment Questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12961475 . 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 . 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 provide a complete applicion package which includes: Your two (2) page RESUME showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of the each employer; start and end des (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed educion and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion de). Transcripts, if relying on educion to meet qualificion requirements. Unofficial transcripts or any report listing institution, course title, credits earned (semester or quarter hour) and final grade is acceptable. It is your responsibility to provide adeque proof th you meet the educional requirements. Submit one or more of the following to support your eligibility(s) to apply to this job announcement: Current and former Federal employees: Most recent non-award SF-50 (Standard Form 50

• Notice of Personnel Action).

To properly verify stus eligibility, your SF-50 must show the following. If you do not submit an approprie SF-50, we cannot verify your stus eligibility. Full position title; appointment type; occupional series; pay plan, grade, and step; tenure code; and service compution de (SCD). If your current position SF50 does not indice you have competitive service stus or does not reflect the pay plan and grade of the highest position you have held in the competitive service, in addition to your current SF50, you must provide your previous SF-50s th provide the proof of competitive stus and highest grade held on a permanent basis. . If you do not submit an approprie SF-50, we cannot verify your stus eligibility.

Veterans:

DD-214 Member Copy 4 showing type of discharge/character of service; current active duty members

• certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions ded within 120 days; SF-15 Form and reled documention; VA letter.

For more informion the USAJOBS Help Center & OPM CHCOC website for VOW informion. Individuals with

Disabilities:

Schedule A letter from a physician, local, ste or federal rehabilition office citing your eligibility under 5 CFR 213.3102 (u). For more informion the USAJOBS Help Center .

Certain Military Spouses:

Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) orders authorizing you to accompany the Military member to the new duty permanent stion; OR verificion of the member's 100% disability (VA Letter); and/or verificion of the member's deh while on active duty (DD-1300 and Deh Certifice) AND verificion of the marriage to the service member (i.e., a marriage license or other legal documention verifying marriage). For more informion the USAJOBS Help Center . Other non-competitive or special appointing authorities: provide documention which supports your eligibility. Career Transition Assistance Program/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program documention, if applicable(e.g., Certificion of Expected Separion, Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal; SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action; and most recent performance appraisal.) For more informion see the OPM Guide to Career Transition . Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents may result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online applicion, to include submission of the required documention specified in the Required Documents section. A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the announcement closing de to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: You must have a login.gov account to sign into

USAJOBS:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/account/ . To begin the applicion process in USAJOBS, click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all required and supporting documention. You must click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 pm (ET) on the announcement closing de. You may upde your applicion, including supporting documention, any time during the announcement open period by returning to your USAJOBS account, select

Upde Applicion:

https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To verify the stus of your applicion, during and after the announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account; 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 need help with login.gov or USAJOBS (e.g., account access, Resume Builder) the

USAJOBS Help Center:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/ If you experience difficulty applying on USAJOBS, after clicking the Apply Online button, or you are experiencing a significant hardship hindering your ability to apply online, the Agency Contact listed in the announcement can assist you during normal business hours. If you receive any system error messages, take screenshots if possible, to aid technical support. Agency contact informion PMA Careers PMACareers@wapa.gov Address Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer

• Power Marketing Administrion HR d Service Center 12155 W.

Alameda Pkwy Lakewood, CO 80228 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. The stus of your applicion upded in USAJOBS as it is evalued. You can check the stus by logging into USAJOBS. You may also sign up to receive automic emails anytime the stus of your applicion changes by logging into your USAJobs Account and editing the Notificion Settings. You contacted directly if an interview is required. 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 provide a complete applicion package which includes: Your two (2) page RESUME showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of the each employer; start and end des (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed educion and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion de). Transcripts, if relying on educion to meet qualificion requirements. Unofficial transcripts or any report listing institution, course title, credits earned (semester or quarter hour) and final grade is acceptable. It is your responsibility to provide adeque proof th you meet the educional requirements. Submit one or more of the following to support your eligibility(s) to apply to this job announcement: Current and former Federal employees: Most recent non-award SF-50 (Standard Form 50

• Notice of Personnel Action).

To properly verify stus eligibility, your SF-50 must show the following. If you do not submit an approprie SF-50, we cannot verify your stus eligibility. Full position title; appointment type; occupional series; pay plan, grade, and step; tenure code; and service compution de (SCD). If your current position SF50 does not indice you have competitive service stus or does not reflect the pay plan and grade of the highest position you have held in the competitive service, in addition to your current SF50, you must provide your previous SF-50s th provide the proof of competitive stus and highest grade held on a permanent basis. . If you do not submit an approprie SF-50, we cannot verify your stus eligibility.

Veterans:

DD-214 Member Copy 4 showing type of discharge/character of service; current active duty members

• certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions ded within 120 days; SF-15 Form and reled documention; VA letter.

For more informion the USAJOBS Help Center & OPM CHCOC website for VOW informion. Individuals with

Disabilities:

Schedule A letter from a physician, local, ste or federal rehabilition office citing your eligibility under 5 CFR 213.3102 (u). For more informion the USAJOBS Help Center .

Certain Military Spouses:

Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) orders authorizing you to accompany the Military member to the new duty permanent stion; OR verificion of the member's 100% disability (VA Letter); and/or verificion of the member's deh while on active duty (DD-1300 and Deh Certifice) AND verificion of the marriage to the service member (i.e., a marriage license or other legal documention verifying marriage). For more informion the USAJOBS Help Center . Other non-competitive or special appointing authorities: provide documention which supports your eligibility. Career Transition Assistance Program/Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program documention, if applicable(e.g., Certificion of Expected Separion, Reduction-In-Force Separion Notice, or Notice of Proposed Removal; SF-50 th documents the RIF separion action; and most recent performance appraisal.) For more informion see the OPM Guide to Career Transition . Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents may result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online applicion, to include submission of the required documention specified in the Required Documents section. A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the announcement closing de to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: You must have a login.gov account to sign into

USAJOBS:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/account/ . To begin the applicion process in USAJOBS, click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all required and supporting documention. You must click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 pm (ET) on the announcement closing de. You may upde your applicion, including supporting documention, any time during the announcement open period by returning to your USAJOBS account, select

Upde Applicion:

https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To verify the stus of your applicion, during and after the announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account; 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 need help with login.gov or USAJOBS (e.g., account access, Resume Builder) the

USAJOBS Help Center:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/ If you experience difficulty applying on USAJOBS, after clicking the Apply Online button, or you are experiencing a significant hardship hindering your ability to apply online, the Agency Contact listed in the announcement can assist you during normal business hours. If you receive any system error messages, take screenshots if possible, to aid technical support. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion PMA Careers PMACareers@wapa.gov Address Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer

• Power Marketing Administrion HR d Service Center 12155 W.

Alameda Pkwy Lakewood, CO 80228 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. The stus of your applicion upded in USAJOBS as it is evalued. You can check the stus by logging into USAJOBS. You may also sign up to receive automic emails anytime the stus of your applicion changes by logging into your USAJobs Account and editing the Notificion Settings. You contacted directly if an interview is required. 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 05/14/2026 to 05/22/2026 Salary $83,265

• $129,742 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11
• 12 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Lakewood, CO Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—Situional, as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• Occasional travel up to 15% annually is required, with overnight travel possible during all or part of the time.

Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 13 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number 26-PW-00624-12961475-MP Control number 869255200