Classification Specialist

AvantGarde, LLC (AG) seeks to engage an part-time HR Classification Specialist who support an AG federal client by providing classification expertise to standardize new and existing positions and provide day-to-day human resources position classification management support.

AG offers a comprehensive benefit package including immediate medical and 401k enrollment as well as a commuter package. This is a part-time, 24 hours per week; work is performed remotely during the pandemic and onsite at Agency in Washington, D.C. once facilities re-open for onsite work.

 The WORK

• Review and evaluate position descriptions in accordance with OPM Classification Standards.  Apply classification standards and supplemental guidance to determine title, series and grades.
• Keep abreast of classification appeal decisions to determine organizational impact and impact on classification practice.
• Provide management with insight in establishing organizational structures that are efficient, cost effective, support desired grade levels, and facilitate career development.
• Make distinctions in the proper crediting of factor levels and ultimate allocation of grade levels to positions and communicates grade distinctions to management with supporting criteria and justification.
• Conduct audits and prepare written evaluation statements.  Determines whether an accretion of duties is justified or that the position is classified correctly. 
• Assist in planning and conducting studies to identify short- and long-range classification needs.
• Advise managers on how to design positions for a complex organization.
• Maintain and ensure position classification accuracy and consistency in interpreting and applying position classification standards.
• Advise management on the accepted principles and rules of judgment in analyzing contentious and complex individual position and organization structure issues.
• Adjudicate position classification appeals and develop a process to support consistently applying classification guidance across the organization.
• Develop job descriptions and implement standardized/benchmark position descriptions for a variety of federal occupational series including professional, administrative, technical and wage grade.
• Assist supervisors in determining the need for an exception position description and classify the position based upon knowledge of the position and the organization's mission and structure in compliance with OPM’s Classifier’s Handbook and Qualification of Standards.