This position is located in the Office of the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C and the incumbent serves as a Staff Assistant to senior officials in the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs. The incumbent handles issues related to matters of a confidential nature and provides support to the administrative/program.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Indian Preference applies
• You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit
• You may be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period
• A background security investigation will be required for all new hires. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
• If you are a male applicant born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
• All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Merit Promotion candidates must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the announcement closing date.
• Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.
• The full performance level of this position GS-07.
• Indian Affairs has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework only during an emergency or natural disaster.

Qualifications

GS-07: To qualify at the GS-07 grade level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level that includes performing ALL of the following: 1) experience utilizing various office automation equipment and software to prepare and review correspondence, reports and other documents; 2) experience preparing documents, reports, charts, spreadsheets, and/or graphs using software applications in word processing and date base software; 3) experience requisitioning office supplies, equipment, and ordering repairs; 4) experience scheduling, planning and coordinating the administrative affairs of a supervisor including maintaining a supervisor's calendar and accepting and declining appointments; and 50 experience receiving telephone calls and visitors for an office and directing them to the appropriate staff. OR Education: Have successfully completed one full year of graduate level education or equivalent combination of experience and education that totals 100% of the requirement OR Superior Academic Achievement.

Education

If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: FOREIGN EDUCATION

Contacts

• Address AS-IA Human Resources 12220 Sunrise Valley Dr., Room 4047 Reston, VA 20191 US
• Name: Human Resources
• Phone: (703) 390-6380
• Email: [email protected]