Securing Travel, Protecting People - At the Transportation Security Administration, you will serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. In cities across the country, you would secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways, and/or public transit systems, thus protecting America's transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movement for people and commerce.

Duties

This Program Assistant position is located in Enterprise Support, Human Capital, HC Service Delivery Division Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to: Provides administrative support to all program areas; monitors, evaluates, and ensures work is effectively performed within the immediate area for responsibility. Performs data entry where appropriate with a high level of accuracy, with little or no supervision; extracts and compiles data for senior staff members and uses knowledge of policies and procedures to provide input and guidance when necessary. Maintains all files, records, schedules and calendars, administrative files; responsible for updating rosters and contact information including maintaining and updating the division's iShare page. Provides assistance developing and maintaining a detailed listing of projects that are currently being worked, dependencies, milestone dates, due dates, meeting notes, issues, risks, and other details as required. Ensure documents are properly filed and/or stored for easy access utilizing a computer filing system. (e.g., Sharepoint, iShare or other appropriate filing system). Consult subject matter experts team members to create, edit, re-write, and format communications and products for appropriate audience level of understanding, readability and accuracy. Consult and write Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Human Capital (HC) business processes and procedural manuals.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for the SV- F Pay Band (equivalent to GS-9/10), you must have one year of specialized experience at the SV-E Pay Band or GS-8 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience performing a range of administrative and office support assignments (i.e. compiling and tracking data, maintaining records, researching files and records); and Experience preparing correspondence and documents; and Experience utilizing computer software applications (e.g., Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint). To qualify for the SV-E Pay Band (equivalent to GS-7/8), you must have one year of specialized experience at the SV-D or GS-6 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience providing administrative and office automation support including preparing correspondence and gathering data; and Experience utilizing computer software applications (e.g., Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint). Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Resumes must include the following: Narrative description of duties with start and end dates (including the month and year) for work experience. State the number of hours worked in a position (i.e. full-time or part-time). If part-time, state the total number of hours worked per week. Performance level (i.e. band or grade) Utilizing the USAJOBS Resume Builder and completing all available fields is strongly encouraged. You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

Education

For positions requiring positive education requirements, or if you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you MUST submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses from an accredited college or university, which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned) in your resume. The information must be provided with the application by the closing date of the announcement. If selected, the applicant must supply a transcript or certification of degree.

Contacts

• Address ES - HUMAN CAPITAL 6595 Springfield Center Dr Springfield, VA 22150 US
• Name: HC ServeU Customer Care
• Email: [email protected]