Job opening: Program Support Assistant
Salary: $45 027 - 58 537 per year
Published at: Feb 08 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Program Support Assistant. Make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment.
Duty Location: Boulder City, Nevada
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Duties
This position is being advertised concurrently to status candidates under vacancy announcement BOR-LCB-24-MP-12303425-MW. Applicants interested in applying under both announcement numbers, must submit application packages for each job announcement.
- Responsible for assisting with correspondence which may include receiving, reading, and controlling sensitive incoming correspondence and reports.
- Drafts replies to general office inquiries, assists with data collection, prepare reports, and act on requests received concerning procedural or administrative requirements.
- Reviews outgoing correspondence for procedural and grammatical accuracy, conformance with general policies, and factual correctness.
- Maintains Group Manager's calendar; schedules appointments, meetings, and conferences; and sees that the Group Managers are fully briefed on the matters to be considered before a scheduled meeting.
- Receives and screens telephone calls and visitors. Takes messages for managers and employees as needed, and schedules appointments for visitors.
- Provides general administrative and non-technical information to callers, refers technical inquiries and visitors to the appropriate individual or group.
- Coordinates with Regional travel office. Incumbent is responsible for purchasing supplies, services, and/or training under the provision of Boulder Canyon Operations Office (BCOO).
- Responsible for the administrative oversight of various business processes, which may include processing financial, procurement, agreements, property, staff, and other administrative instruments for the office.
- Ensures travel authorizations and vouchers are completed with policy deadlines. Check's accuracy of authorizations and vouchers filled out by BCOO staff.
Qualifications
In order to be rated as qualified for this position, the HR Office must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - this information must be clearly supported in the resume.
GS-6: To qualify at the GS-6, your resume must reflect one year of full-time experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-5 level in federal service having demonstrated experience.
GS-6 Specialized Experience: Specialized Experience is defined as providing three or more of the following office support services: preparing correspondence; receives and screens telephone calls and visitors; buying with a purchase card or allocating purchases using a database system; making travel arrangements for others; setting up meetings using electronic calendars; tracking/keeping staff informed of suspense dates; or researching/providing answers to questions.
Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to the online applicant assessment questions by addressing experience relevant to this position. Applicants must make a fair and accurate assessment of their qualifications. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is apparent in your description of experience, competencies, skills, and/or education/training, you will be rated as ineligible. You must be clear when describing your experience, human resources may not make assumptions in determining qualifications. If you resume does not clearly reflect the above specialized experience, your application will be marked as ineligible.
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.
You must meet all Eligibility and Qualification requirements, including any selective placement factors if applicable, by 02/22/2024.
Education
This position does not allow substituting education for experience.
Contacts
- Address Lower Colorado Basin
Bureau of Reclamation
PO Box 61470
Boulder City, NV 89006
US
- Name: Maria Wallior
- Phone: 702-293-8403
- Email: [email protected]
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