ops personnel services specialist

Requisition No: 865797

Agency: Agency for Persons with Disabilities

Working Title: OPS PERSONNEL SERVICES SPECIALIST

Position Number:

Salary: $20.00 Hourly

Posting Closing Date: 12/05/2025

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AGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

POSITION: PERSONNEL TECHNICIAN III/HR-SES - Other Personal Services (OPS)

WORKING TITLE: Personnel Specialist

POSITION NUMBER:

OPEN COMPETITIVE OPPORTUNITY

This posting may close before the posted closing date.

CANDIDATE POOL: Future vacancies may be filled from this advertisement for a period of up to six months.

This position is not a Telework position and is required to report to the APD office in Tallahassee, FL.

The Benefits of Working for the State of Florida

Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State's total compensation package for eligible employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits, including:

• Annual and Sick Leave benefits.
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year.
• State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options.
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions (For more information, please click ).
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Tuition waivers.
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• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave.

The Agency seeks team members who demonstrate the qualities of being humble, hungry, and smart and lead others to embody the same. This entails lacking excessive ego, sharing credit, being self-motivated, and exercising good judgment and intuition regarding the subtleties of group dynamics.

This position with APD will serve staff and management across the Agency. Your work will impact the workplace culture, our community, and the population we serve as we continuously strive to achieve the Agency's mission.

• Responses to the qualifying questions are required and must be verifiable based on your submitted application, and "see resume" will not be considered an acceptable response.

SALARY RANGE

$20.00 Hourly

Position Summary

This is a professional position in State Office Human Resources (HR) and is responsible for independently performing a variety of human resource duties. These duties require comprehensive knowledge of Agency policies, procedures, goals, and programs within the Agency relating to human resources.

This position spends the majority of their time communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees, and planning and directing employees' work, and who have the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees or effectively recommend such action, including all employees serving as supervisors, administrators, and directors.

The Work You Will Do

Coordinate various attendance and leave programs such as FMLA, FSWP, and Workers' Compensation.

Coordinate essential tasks of facilitating new employee orientation, direct deposit compliance, preparing and analyzing various HR reports utilizing various electronic platforms.

Coordinate logistics for training sessions and New Employee Orientation (NEO), including scheduling, booking venues or virtual rooms, and managing invites. Prepare training materials, support trainers and facilitators.

Coordinate audits and internal reviews by retrieving and providing requested documentation.

Maintain employee records via electronic platforms.

Required Qualifications

• Must possess a high school diploma or its equivalent.
• Must possess one year of experience in human resources.
• High attention to detail, confidentiality, and excellent organizational skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.
• A valid driver's license.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Knowledge of:

• Basic principles of personnel administration.

• One or more personnel program functions such as selection, classification, and pay, employee benefits, labor relations, employer/employee relations, or training.

• Principles and techniques of effective communication.

• Methods of data collection.

Ability to:

• Collect, evaluate, and analyze data relating to personnel program functions.

• Organize data into a logical format.

• Compose correspondence.

• Utilize problem-solving techniques.

• Work independently.

• Understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies, and procedures relating to personnel program functions.

• Prepare reports relating to personnel program functions.

• Plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments.

• Use various electronic platforms.

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

Maintain confidential information and excellent attention to detail is required.

• Exhibit excellent interpersonal communication skills, problem analysis, and problem resolution skills.

Skilled in:

• Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

Additional Information

Profile Completion

To qualify for this position, applicants must complete all fields in the Candidate Profile, including their work history with the month and year.

Resumes and other documentation can be attached to provide additional information but will not replace the required completed Candidate Profile.

Retiree Notice

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be suspended or voided, and you will be required to repay all benefits received, depending upon your retirement date.

Direct Deposit Program

As a condition of employment, a person appointed to a position in the State Personnel System is required to participate in the Direct Deposit Program. Rather than receiving a paper paycheck, your funds will be deposited directly into your account at your financial institution. This will be accomplished by Electronic Funds Transfer. Banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions are eligible to accept such deposits. Retirement funds are also required to be in the Direct Deposit Program.

Background Screening Requirement

It is the policy of the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities that applicants for employment undergo Level 2 employment screening in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, Florida Statutes, as a condition of employment or being permitted to serve as a volunteer.

No applicant for a designated position will be employed or permitted to volunteer until the Level 2 screening results are received, reviewed, and approved by the Agency.

Level 2 background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for Statewide criminal and juvenile records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Federal criminal records checks through the Federal Bureau of Investigation and may include local criminal records checks through local law enforcement agencies.

Pursuant to S , Florida Statutes, this position requires a background investigation, including fingerprinting.

APD only hires U.S. citizens and those lawfully authorized to work in the U.S. APD participates in the U.S. government's employment eligibility verification program (E-Verify), which electronically confirms an employee's eligibility to work in the U.S. after completing the employment eligibility verification form (I-9).

All applicants should complete the online application process. If you need assistance applying for this position, please call the People First service center at

Responses to the qualifying questions are required to be considered for this position. Answers to the qualifying questions must be verifiable based on your submitted application.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section , F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS' PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans' Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans' Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans' Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here. All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.