Job Description
HR Specialist I (Staffing)
Statement of Work (SOW)
PURPOSE: The United States Capitol Police (USCP) is seeking professional services from qualified vendors with extensive experience in a full array of human resources services/programs, human capital management services related to the Officer of Human Resources (OHR), and professional acquisition and contract support related to the Office of Acquisition Management (OAM).
BACKGROUND: The United States Capitol Police (USCP) is responsible for protecting Congress, its legislative processes, members, staff, visitors, and facilities from crime, disruption, and terrorism. The Office of Human Resources (OHR) provides a full array of human resources and human capital management services to USCP for both sworn and civilian employees. These services include both operational and programmatic functions in areas such as staffing and position classification, employee/labor relations, benefits and retirement, compensation, personnel action and payroll processing, human capital strategy, and policy program development, and human capital strategic functions such as workforce planning, organizational development, performance management.
Place of Performance: USCP located on the 7th floor of the Fairchild Building, 499 South Capitol Street, SW, Washington, DC 20003.
Period of Performance: one (1) year base starting in August 2025 and four (4) Option years.
Schedule: Work shall be performed during normal business hours from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday–Friday. Business may be conducted on Holidays, e.g., Columbus Day, Presidents’ Day, and Veterans’ Day.
Requirements:
- The HR Specialist must have active technical federal experience with a minimum of two (2) years of experience in staffing and a minimum of two (2) years’ experience in the human resources field, which may include but not limited to HR Administrative or HR Staffing Assistant.
- Must have knowledge of Federal OPM staffing and merit promotion rules and regulations. Experience in using the USA Staffing system is strongly preferred (will train if needed but strongly prefer hands-on experience. Must have exceptional organizational skills and have the ability to juggle multiple priorities; excellent writing skills with specific attention to detail; and excellent customer service skills.
Duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Provide operational support for recruitment and staffing assignments, to include coding of personnel actions, such as but not limited to, new appointments, temporary promotions, details, and career ladder promotions. Provide classification support including comprehensive desk audits and analysis around special studies when required. Contractors will utilize standard OPM guidelines for classification.
- Support includes but not limited to:
- Assisting OHR management in assessing USCP position descriptions to include competencies, organizational alignments, span of control, definitions of mission and function, and consistency of the application of these concepts in hiring and human capital management.
- Assisting with the development of vacancy announcements.
- Researching different direct hiring practices that the organization can use to accelerate hiring and target top talent; and provide support in the development of business cases to obtain hiring flexibilities.
- Assessing and developing recruiting assessment tools.
- Providing assistance and guidance on developing recruiting standards.