Federal Retirement and Benefits Counselor, Trainer, and Processor (Future Opportunity)

With a passion for excellence, Golden Key Group (GKG) helps clients solve their strategic, organizational, and operational challenges to better meet their mission demands. We have serviced more than 25 Federal departments and agencies and several large commercial companies since our inception in 2002.

Golden Key Group's talented professionals, combined with our strategic partners, bring a depth of commercial and government experience and expertise. We are relentless in delivering the highest levels of services to provide tangible value and create sustainable results for our clients.

This announcement is associated with GKG's Future Opportunities. Future Opportunities includes contract driven professional services that are in proposal, source selection, or recently awarded. Expressing interest in GKG's Future Opportunities offers you the ability to share your capabilities and career interests with GKG; aligning your next step with your career goals!

This role provides counseling services to Federal customers making decisions on their Retirement and Benefits. This include delivering training programs, providing one-on-one counseling services, and supporting package submission to OPM and processing of internal Agency actions to complete out-processing.

Duties:

Develop and deliver general and topical Federal Retirement training across Federal Retirement programs and career levels (early, mid, late)
• Engage with employees to support assessment of retirement readiness, including regular, early, postponed, deferred, discontinued service, disability, relationship with programs like DRP.
• Interpret governing policies and regulations and counsel employees to regarding the consequences of retirement readiness, timeliness, and decision to proceed. Counseling topics include:
  • Eligibility for Retirement
  • Determining High-3
  • Computation of Annuity
  • FERS Annuity Supplement
  • Disability Benefits
  • Crediting Civilian & Military Service
  • Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLA)
  • Voluntary Contributions
  • Special Group of Employees (Law Enforcement Officers, Firefighters, Congressional employees, etc.)
  • Deposits/Redeposits
  • Annual Leave Payment and Sick Leave Computation
  • Application for Retirement
  • Processing of Retirement Application
  • Survivor Benefits
  • Social Security
  • Medicare
  • Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)
  • Federal Group Life Insurance (FEGLI)
    Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB)
  • Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP)
  • Long Term Care Insurance (LTC)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Other Financial Planning Strategies
• Prepare Service Computation Date Reports and process the employee s Change in Service Computation Date NOA in the HRIS.
• Review eOPF to extract information to calculate the Retirement Estimates.
• Identify gaps in eOPF and support records request actions.
• Identify and calculate Military and /or Civilian Deposit(s)
• Support completion of necessary required Forms and Reports and submit to the HRIS Deposit Section to establish the employee's Military Deposit account or submit to OPM as appropriate.
• Prepare Retirement packages for the employees' review/signature prior to processing the personnel action for SF-2806 creation.
• Rapidly respond to client communications to support timely employee package and preparation processing.
• Other duties as assigned

• Experience developing or delivering Federal Retirement programs or;
• Experience delivering one-on-one Federal Retirement counseling, or;
• Experience Federal Retirement package preparation, submission, and processing.

• Experience in two or more of the requirements
• Experience across FERS, CSRS, Offset, VERA/VSIP, Discontinued Retirement, and LEO retirement programs
• Experience submitting retirement package on OPM portal