This position is located within the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) with one vacancy located in Norman, OK. This position is also announced under vacancy number OAR NSSL-23-12134073-ST, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

As a Support Services Specialist, you will perform the following duties: Serve as principal advisor on various human resources policies and procedures. Maintain the organizational structure, ensuring sound staffing levels. Provides advice and assistance to the organization in areas such as recruitment initiatives to backfill vacant positions. Apply a thorough knowledge of regulations, requirements and procedures regarding areas such as reassignments, realignments and noncompetitive promotions. Provide services on behalf of the office within delegated procurement guidelines. Manage micro-purchases through General Schedule Administration (GSA) contracts and on open market. Responsible for ensuring all procedures are followed in initiating procurement actions and that funds have been certified as available and that require internal or external approvals have been obtained. Serve as a Contracting Officer's Representative. Analyze usage and condition of the office equipment for use in preparing annual requests. Independently evaluates current technical and recommends upgrade or replacement of equipment to increase efficiency. Ensure accounting documents are transmitted to servicing accounting office; monitors financial transactions to assure obligations do not exceed funding targets. Update records in property management system. Administer a supply management program in support of office's operation. Perform analyses and studies in the areas of requirement determination, maintenance of adequate stock levels and related records and storage, issues. Manage and review office configurations, building maintenance, security systems and access. Develop and evaluate emergency plans and monitors readiness to react in a timely and professional manner to bomb threats, fire reports and other disasters. NOTE: These duties are described at the Full Performance Level of the ZA-3, the ZA-2 is developmental leading to such performance.

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 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: 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. Conditions of Employment: ZA-2: Incumbent must obtain a FAC-COR level 1 certification within 6 months of onboarding; ZA-3: Incumbent must obtain and maintain a FAC-COR level 2 certification within 12 months of the FAC-COR 1. *A Financial Disclosure Form SF-450 must be submitted. To qualify at the ZA-2 or GS-07 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-1 or GS-05 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: - Assisting with support functions within the operation to include but not limited to: human resources policies and procedures, purchasing and procurement, and administrative supplies and equipment; and - Utilizing and updating records in an organization's property management system. OR Education: One full year of graduate-level education. Major study -- public administration, business administration, industrial engineering, industrial management, or other administrative or management fields related to the position to be filled. OR COMBINATION: A combination of graduate level education and specialized experience. To qualify at the ZA-3 or GS-11 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-2 or GS-09 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: - Providing administrative support including, but not limited to; contracts, budget execution, purchasing, accountable property and human resources; - Providing advice and guidance to management officials and other personnel regarding support service operations to ensure policies and procedures are consistent with the program's objectives; and - Developing, evaluating and monitoring emergency readiness plans. SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. OR COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of related graduate level education and specialized experience as described above. NOTE: Only graduate education in excess of two years is qualifying for combination of education and experience.

Education

College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree. A listing of these accredited organizations can be found on the Department of Education's website. You MUST provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing along with your application. Failure to provide such documentation by the closing date of the announcement will result in lost consideration. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation.

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Antoinette Gartrell
• Email: [email protected]