About this role

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/03/2026. 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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

Selective Placement Factor: Successful candidates must demonstrate current knowledge of Human Resources programs including the establishment, verification, and continuance of special salary rates and schedules, Student Loan Repayment Program (SLRP), Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), Retention, Relocation, and Recruitment (3Rs), and Critical Skills incentives, Network-wide; and HR platform systems, such as Electronic Official Personnel File (eOPF), HR Smart, LEAF and yourHR.

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-13 level, you must meet one of the following listed Criteria: Criteria 1- Graduate Degree and Specialized Experience: Successful completion of a graduate level degree or higher and three years of progressive specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level.

Such experience may be gained in administrative, professional, technical or other responsible work positions in the public (i.e., Government or military) or private sector. Qualifying specialized experience includes: providing leadership consulting and advisory functions in compensation; analyzing, interpreting, developing, and/or implementing laws, regulations, policies, and/or guidance on subject matter areas within compensation administration; provides expert guidance and oversight to facilities on General Schedule, Federal Wage system, Hybrid 38, and Title 38 employment and pay systems.

~OR~ Criteria 2- Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in federal service that demonstrates HR management knowledge, concepts and principles and the performance of work in one or more of the HR specialty areas. Such experience may be gained in administrative, professional, technical or other responsible work positions in the public (i.e., Government or military) or private sector.

Qualifying specialized experience includes: providing leadership consulting and advisory functions in compensation; analyzing, interpreting, developing, and/or implementing laws, regulations, policies, and/or guidance on subject matter areas within compensation administration; provides expert guidance and oversight to facilities on General Schedule, Federal Wage system, Hybrid 38, and Title 38 employment and pay systems; oversees the development and establishment or adjustments to special salary rates or nurse locality pay schedules; analyzing staffing and salary survey data to identify issues and trends involving title 38 and title 5 pay administration or identifying corrective action for complex pay issues; serving as a subject matter expert for physician, dentists, and podiatrists market pay determinations and/or recruitment, relocation, and retention incentives; applying criteria, principles, and standard methods to resolve a variety of conventional compensation issues and problems pertaining to basic pay setting, locality pay, special rates, back pay, pay limitations, premium pay, grade and pay retention, severance pay, and cost-of-living allowances.

Preferred Experience: 3-5 years experience in Federal Government HR; two years of VA Federal HR Compensation team experience; Experience as a Lead or Supervisor in Federal Government. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

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