Supervisory Human Resources Specialist - Placement (Supervisory Hiring Specialist)

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education: There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position.

01Experience

You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience using automated hiring systems to track candidate status, generate operational dashboards and reports, implement data quality controls, and provide analyses to leadership for resource allocation and process improvements.

Experience leading hiring process improvements, analyzing operational trends, designing workflow enhancements, developing training materials and desk guides, and implementing standardized practices across teams using change management principles. Experience managing post-referral hiring workflows, including selection documentation, tentative offers, and onboarding coordination across multiple locations while ensuring compliance with federal merit system principles and maintaining audit-ready case files.

Experience supervising human resources or hiring specialists, including assigning and reviewing work, establishing priorities, evaluating performance, providing technical guidance, and managing resources in a high-volume hiring environment. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience.

To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities. Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.

This position delivers supervisory leadership over post-referral hiring actions to sustain fast, consistent, technology-enabled pipelines and ensure uniform application of federal hiring standards across the Bureau. Serves as a first-level Supervisory Hiring Specialist and is responsible for planning, directing, and overseeing the daily work of Hiring Operations staff.

The primary purpose of the position is to manage operations that begin after candidates are examined and referred, including candidate communications, selection documentation, tentative offer processing, and comprehensive preboarding and onboarding coordination; to ensure data integrity and audit-ready documentation; and to drive throughput, quality, and consistency across national surge teams in alignment with Bureau policy and OPM requirements.

Plans, organizes, assigns, and reviews the work of subordinate employees to ensure effective operations and timely completion of assigned tasks.