This vacancy is for an Executive Assistant in the Office of the Secretary, Office of Civil Rights, within the Department of Commerce. This position is being filled under P.L. 115-232, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2019. Section 1108 of the NDAA for appointing college graduates to positions at specific grades in the competitive service without regard to rating, ranking, and veterans' preference provisions under this hiring authority.

Duties

As an Executive Assistant, you will perform the following duties: Reviewing and editing the work products of staff members involving executive level communications for grammar, style, and typographical errors, referring questions regarding content to the originator. Performing administrative assignments relative to supporting and assisting high-level executives to include senior executive service (SES) and high-graded civilians. Predicting, preventing, and resolving issues and/or developing recommendations in which judgment and recommendations have a significant impact on organizational efficiency. Reviewing staff actions to assure all required information is available, appropriate views have been captured in the coordination process and recommending delegation to prevent back logged actions. Maintaining and monitoring tasking that require top-level coordination or input. and coordinating resolution of issues to the extent possible and determining what issues must be addressed by senior management officials. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Executive Assistant GS-0301-9, FPL GS-9 positions within the Office of the Secretary in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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. To qualify at the GS-9 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: providing administrative support to Executive level and/or senior manager tracking work products, projects and resolving administrative issues; and utilizing office automation software to prepare documents, spreadsheets presentations and manage calendar. -OR- SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: You may substitute education for experience as follows: A related Master's degree or equivalent graduate degree; or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree; -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of experience and graduate level education is qualifying, as described above. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 18 semester hours (27 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.

Education

BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT FOR THIS POSITION - This requirement is in addition to the Qualifications listed above.

Applicants must have completed, within the previous two-years, a qualifying bachelor's degree or an advanced degree from a qualifying educational institution.

Exceptions are made for veterans, as defined in 5 USC 2108 , who, due to military service obligations, were precluded from applying during the two-year eligibility period described above. Veterans have a full two-year period of eligibility upon their release or discharge from active duty.

Contacts

• Address Office of the Secretary 1401 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20230 US
• Name: Shawn Blain
• Email: [email protected]