The Personnel Management Officer supports the IHSC Chief of Administration by managing human capital activities for over 1,600 employees, including civil servants, USPHS officers, and contractors. Responsibilities include recruitment, staffing, training, and data analysis. The role involves collaboration with senior officials, and ensuring compliance with policies. This position is only open to current USPHS officers USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this position.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work is sedentary. Some work may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel to and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site. Some employees may carry light items such as papers, books, or small parts, or drive a motor vehicle. The work does not require any special physical effort.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Serves as the focal point on civil service Title 5 and Title 38 recruitment and placement initiatives. Provides the full range of position recruitment and placement services, policy interpretation, and alternative planning objectives to senior IHSC officials as needed; and provides the agency perspective through advice, guidance, options, and courses of action involving position recruitment and placement programs. Delivers the full range of human resources services for civil service in recruitment and placement, staffing, position classification and management, performance management, awards, policy, onboarding, timekeeping coordinator, special pay and training sufficient to evaluate and make recommendations concerning overall plans and proposals for complex division projects and to develop, interpret, and analyze data extracts and reports from automated IHSC and HR databases and/or develop the most efficient and effective approaches for management. Incumbent collaborates with senior IHSC officials, ICE HR and DHS HR officials related to employee and labor relations, ethics, national recruitment, position management, recruitment, special pay, employment law, training, public health service recruitment and staffing and policy. Develop and/or modify human resources products, work methods, approaches or procedures for delivering high quality services. Builds relationships and provides responsive, professional, detail-oriented and follow-through customer service to IHSC staff and stakeholders. Interprets and applies principles, practices, and criteria to address the program areas issues/concerns. Expertise and complete ability to write and verbally convey highly complex and technical correspondence on behalf of CoA. Thorough knowledge of various automated personnel data and information systems, with the ability to access, transmit, retrieve and manipulate information related to personnel policies, automated tools and personnel actions. Provides oral and written advice and assistance to managers on the interpretation and application of OPM, DHS and ICE policy, procedures, and other related laws and regulations Leads special assignments/projects or comprehensive studies. Represents CoA in senior level meetings and consultations as needed