Why work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons? You can have a meaningful career with an agency that truly values a diverse workforce. You will find a diverse workforce employed from entry level jobs to senior management positions. We protect public safety by ensuring federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, and provide reentry programming. Employees at correctional facilities perform correctional work regardless of their specific occupation.

Duties

Maintains supervisor’s daily schedule of appointments and meetings, ensuring that the supervisor is aware of and prepared for associated issues. Develops and maintains a filing system and tracking system to clearly outline the administrative obligations of the center, including distribution of responsibilities for section within the Designations and Sentence Computation Center (DSCC). Received and responds to telephone inquiries from higher organizational levels, institution, DSCC staff, other government agencies and the public concerning the DSCC’s program, activities, and administration. Composes nontechnical correspondence on a variety of topics such as office procedures, requests for information, and the handling of Congressional or other sensitive matters based on knowledge of unwritten policies, precedents, and practices. Ensures office procedures meet organization’s needs and are consistently understood and followed in subordinate offices.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is Required.
• See Special Conditions of Employment Section.

Qualifications

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education:As a general rule, education is not creditable above GS-5 for most positions covered by this standard; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position. OR Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience in maintaining supervisor’s daily calendar, establishing priorities, scheduling appointments and making commitments for the supervisor to attend meetings without prior approval. Experience in receiving and responding to telephonic/written inquiries from higher organizational levels including other federal, state and local government officials/agency staff and the general public. Experience involving a thorough knowledge of a wide range of administrative procedures and regulations to process various requests and actions, forms, reports and records and reviewing correspondence for proper grammar, spelling, punctuation and format. Experience ordering office supplies, subscriptions, furniture and equipment, and preparing repair requests, and ensuring credit card holders’ monthly statements are reconciled and statements are disseminated to appropriate officials. If applicable, credit will be paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as number of hours worked per week) spent in the activities. **Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**

Education

See Qualifications Section for education requirements, if applicable.

ONLY if education is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verification of educational requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, Click Here.

Foreign Education: For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department of Education website: Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.

If you are selected for this position and qualified based on education (i.e. basic education requirement and/or substitution of education), you will be required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.

Contacts

• Address JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS Consolidated Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 United States
• Name: CSU
• Phone: 972-352-4200
• Email: [email protected]