GS-0200 - HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT GROUP
Human Resources Management Student Trainee Series GS-0299
GS-0201 - Human Resources Management Series
This series covers two-grade interval administrative positions that mange, supervise, administer, advise on, or deliver human resources management products or services.
This series includes, but is not limited to, the following specialties:
Information Systems: Work that involves developing, delivering, managing, and maintaining HR information systems when the paramount knowledge requirement is human resources management, rather than information technology.
Military: Work that involves administering, delivering, maintaining, advising on, and adapting basic concepts, principles, and theories of military HR to the unique organizational, management, and mission requirements of military departments or organizations.
Classification: Work that involves position evaluation, establishing and maintaining a position classification program to determine appropriate pay system, occupational grouping, title and grade of positions, and advising on position and organization design.
Compensation: Work that involves analyzing, interpreting, developing, and/or implementing laws, regulations, policies, and/or guidance involving subject matter areas within compensation administration (e.g., pay and/or leave administration) and advising management on the use of compensation flexibilities to help recruit, manage, and retain employees.
Recruitment & Placement, or Recruitment, or Placement: Work that involves recruiting, examining, selecting and placing employees; performing job analysis; workforce planning and analysis; and advising management in identifying, attracting, and retaining a high-quality and diverse workforce that is capable of accomplishing the organization's mission.
Employee Benefits: Work that involves providing guidance and consultation to agencies, employees, former employees, annuitants, survivors, and eligible family members regarding retirement, insurance, health benefits, and injury compensation.
Human Resource Development: Work that involves planning, administering, or evaluating programs designed to develop employees and manage learning in the organization.
Performance Management: Work that involves assisting managers and supervisors in establishing, maintaining, and monitoring effective performance management programs to plan, monitor, develop, rate, and reward employee performance, and services that support formal and informal award programs to provide employee incentives and recognition.
Employee Relations: Work that involves providing advice and assistance to employees and managers, program administration, research, and case management in matters related to conduct, performance, attendance, and dispute resolution.
Labor Relations: Work that involves establishing and maintaining effective relationships - including the use of non-traditional collaborative approaches - with labor organizations that represent Federal employees, negotiating and administering labor agreements, and providing guidance and consultation to management on a variety of labor relations matters.
GS-0203 - Human Resources Assistance Series
This series covers one-grade interval administrative support positions that supervise, lead, or perform human resources (HR) assistance work requiring substantial knowledge of civilian and/or military HR terminology, requirements, procedures, operations, functions, and regulatory policy and procedural requirements applicable to HR transactions. The work does not require the broad knowledge of Federal HR systems or the depth of knowledge about HR concepts, principles, and techniques that are characteristic of the recognized HR specialist positions in the Human Resources Management Series, GS-0201.
This series includes, but is not limited to, the following specialties:
Information Systems: Work that primarily involves entering and extracting data from HR information systems.
Military: Work that involves support of military HR programs and functions.
Classification: Work that involves support of position classification programs and functions.
Recruitment & Placement, or Recruitment, or Placement: Work that involves support of recruitment, selection, placement, job analysis, and workforce planning and analysis.
Employee Benefits: Work that involves support of employee guidance and consultation to agencies, employees, former employees, annuitants, survivors, and eligible family members regarding retirement, insurance, health benefits, and injury compensation.
Human Resource Development: Work that involves support of human resource development programs and functions.
Performance Management: Work that involves support of performance management programs and/or employee awards programs.
Employee & Labor Relations, or Employee Relations, or Labor Relations: Work that involves support of employee relations programs in matters related to conduct, performance, attendance, and dispute resolution; and/or work involved in maintaining effective relationships with labor organizations that represent Federal employees, negotiating and administering labor agreements, and providing guidance and consultation to management on a variety of labor relations matters.
GS-0260 - Equal Employment Opportunity Series
This series includes positions primarily concerned with developing, administering, evaluating, or advising on the Federal Government's internal equal employment opportunity program within various Federal agencies when the position requires knowledge of Federal equal employment opportunity regulations and principles; compliance and enforcement skills; administrative, management, and consulting skills; and knowledge of Federal personnel administration. This includes managers or coordinators of special emphasis programs designed to solve the specialized employment problems of women, minorities, veterans, the handicapped, persons over age forty, and others as they relate to Federal employment.
