Total 2 contracts specialist job vacancies in Human Resources category in SITE - Butterworth Hospital - 100 Michigan St - Grand Rapids

Recruitment & Placement - 55%

• Evaluates applications and resumes using Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Veterans Administration (VA) qualification standards, verifies eligibility, and rates and ranks applicants.
• Adjudicates and makes decisions on applicant appeals and agency's request to pass over (or objects to) eligible(s) certified.
• Provides input to the immediate supervisor on final decisions. As authorized by OPM, he/she is responsible for drafting and preparing announcement(s); evaluating, rating and ranking applications; adjudicates veteran's preference; updating various logs, maintaining active and inactive files and pending files, etc.; issues Notice of Ratings (NORs); and issues and audits certificate of eligibility.
• Prepares or edits final drafts, examination announcement, recruiting plans, rating schedules and qualification inquiry forms in subject matter areas which the qualification and methods for their determination involve difficulty in definition and development.
• Prepares vacancy announcements based on Position Description (PD) and/or functional statements (FS) and Subject Matter Expert (SME) analysis of the position, qualifies/disqualifies applicants, and maintains all documentation for the job announcement.
• Reviews and consults, in conjunction with the hiring manager, on job analysis and/or rating and ranking panels when needed.
• Processes a variety of requests for personnel action (RPAs) to fill a variety of positions. Coordinates and works with local and regional operations regarding priorities for positions to be filled.
• Receives and reviews local and regional recruitment requests and contacts the Selecting Official to finalize the recruitment action.
• Provides technical advice and assistance to the human resources staff and management officials in all areas of staffing and recruitment, including priority placement, direct hiring, special hiring authorities, etc.
• Troubleshoots and resolves difficult and controversial internal and external staffing and placement problems.
• Performs internal placement duties that include conducting job analysis, preparing promotion and placement products, and issuing referral certificates.
• Ensures that all placement actions meet regulatory requirements.
• Consults on and ensures all pre-employment requirements are met, such as: position management and organizational design, pay administration such as physician market pay; setting pay for Title 5, Title 38 and Hybrid employees, using multiple pay scales and various information sources; VetPro. Credentialing; position descriptions, functional statements, scopes of practice, crediting plans, and job analysis.

Consultation - 45%

• Advises staff on difficult and unusual recruitment, placement and pay issues or problems.
• Advises on the selection of SMEs and the rating panel process.
• Advises and consults on targeted recruitment strategies and non-traditional recruitment opportunities specific to the local and regional market area.
• Leverages expertise to create legally sufficient solutions and provide information on the widest range of flexibility from which local and regional managers can choose that achieve their objectives.
• Provides law, policy, and analysis to the manager to support their recommendations.
• Researches qualifications and skills needed and ensures the job analysis is properly formulated with subject matter experts.
• Provides authoritative management advisory service on supplements to qualifications standards, such as selective placement factors and quality ranking factors to target a desired applicant pool.
• Provide staffing advice including career and career conditional competitive service appointments, temporary appointments, term appointments, excepted service appointments and special appointment authorities.
• Demonstrates skill in written and oral communication techniques related to developing and delivering various forms of correspondence to managers, such as briefings and status/staff reports.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Compressed/Flexible: Not Available
Telework: Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position
Position Description/PD#: Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement)/PD99989A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentive: Not Authorized


Physical Requirements: No special physical exertion is required. The work is primarily performed while sitting though some work may require periods of standing. The regular and recurring work of the position involves sitting at a desk, conferences, meetings, etc., and occasional visits to activity work sites. Occasional use of automobile and public conveyances may be required.

Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.

Starting at $46,696 Per Year (GS 7-12)

Recruitment Strategy - 40%

• Position serves as the case-manager for all physician and provider recruitment and onboarding activities ensuring effective and efficient processes that maximize recruitment outcomes and reduce Time-to-Hire (T2H).
• Will focus on hiring quality physicians and providers as quickly as possible to meet the unique needs of the health care system.
• The primary point of contact (POC) for physician and provider candidate site visits/interviews and ensures an enhanced candidate experience through coordination of candidate travel, interview agendas, facility tours, local area community tours, formal contingent offers, and initiation of credentialing and privileging (C&P).
• Provides case management and facilitation of the onboarding process.
• Responsible for the recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing retention life cycle for physicians and providers within the health care system, and as such, will forge strategic and harmonious relationships with the following key stakeholders: 1) facility and VISN leadership; 2) NRS; 3) affiliated university leaders; 4) regional professional associations; 5) community leaders; and 6) HR personnel in SBU and SSU; and 7) other key stakeholders as needed.
• Serves as the HR subject matter expert (SME)/technical advisor in Title 38 physician, dentist and provider recruitments, onboarding, market pay administration, and retention and serves as the primary point of contact for the provider.

Customer Recruitment Planning - 25%

• Meets with local hiring managers to conduct recruitment search assessments in order to develop tailored recruitment marketing and sourcing strategy.
• Obtains critical information about the vacancy during recruitment search assessment that will enhance marketability of the opportunity and improve the likelihood of sourcing best-fit candidates.
• Gather information during assessment includes, but is not limited to, department staffing, reasons for vacancies, previous recruitment activities and hiring history, unique training requirements, skill requirements, preferred clinical competencies, the ideal candidate profile, proposed salary and recruitment incentives, and other pertinent details.
• Develops a client-centered and tailored recruitment and sourcing plan to recruit best fit candidates for each specific vacancy.

Recruitment Operations- 25%

• Meets regularly with COS, clinical service line managers, SSBP, DEO, PAO, SBU, and SSU to coordinate recruitment advertising and the sharing of recruitment information within the appropriate academic and/or professional community.
• Authors recruitment advertisement content and coordinates appropriate approvals before publishing.
• Coordinates with NRS on attendance at local job fairs and conferences.
• Administers and commits recruitment marketing funds for purchasing ads in professional magazines, journals, sourcing campaigns, and attendance at NRS-approved local conferences and job fairs.

Data Capture and Analysis- 10%

• Forecast's physician and provider vacancies, mitigates recruitment, hiring and retention challenges, and utilizes data from various sources (Veterans Service Support Center (VSSC), ATS, Workforce Succession and Strategic Plan, etc.).
• Maintains statistics on various aspects of recruitment and retention and incorporates this information in facility recruitment and retention reports.
• Plans and conducts facility recruitment and retention program assessments through surveys, statistical studies, data analysis, and customer interviews to optimize recruitment outcomes and T2H.
• Reviews facility recruitment actions or cases and recommends improvements for inefficient, inadequate, or invalid measurement methods to the SSBP, SBU, and SSU.
• Publishes facility level reports and conducts presentations documenting information accumulated from measurement methods, and the resultant procedures established or changed.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday - 8:00am - 4:30pm
Compressed/Flexible: Not Available
Telework: AD HOC may be eligible after 6 months.
Remote/Virtual: This is not a virtual or remote position and the incumbent will be required to be physically onsite.
Position Description Title/PD#: HR Specialist (Recruitment/Placement) Physician & Provider Recruiter/PD99721S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentive: May be authorized for highly qualified candidates
Physical Requirements: Some work may require walking in offices, hospitals, convention centers, hotels, universities, and similar areas for meetings and to conduct recruitment, hiring and retention duties. Work may also require walking and standing in conjunction with travel to and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the worksite.

Starting at $82,830 Per Year (GS 12)