Human Resources Assistant

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/. As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected human resources team that is responsible for providing recruitment and placement, classification, employee relations, employee benefits, personnel action processing, employee compensation, human resource development and other related services. Typical work assignments will include: Processing personnel actions. Providing office automation assistance. Assisting with time, attendance and leave management duties. Providing clerical and technical support in the areas of recruitment and placement, classification, employee benefits, personnel actions processing. Assisting with the new employee orientation process. Assisting with the review of security information and documents in relation to pre-employment security processing. Reviewing, processing, and resolving problems/discrepancies relative to requests for personnel actions. Providing information to employees regarding employee benefits programs. Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress. This is an excepted service appointment under the Pathways Recent Graduates Program. This appointment is a one year career development program. At the successful completion of the program requirements, you may be eligible for non-competitive conversion to a Federal career or career-conditional appointment. For more information on the Pathways Program, please visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/students-recent-graduates/ Each grade has 10 step rates and GS employees are usually hired at step one of the applicable GS grade level at which the applicant qualified. The salary range for a GS-5 in San Francisco, California is $50,925.00- $66,203.00 (step 1 through step 10). Initial appointment through the Recent Graduates Program will begin at GS-5; continued service may lead to promotion to GS-7.