Job opening: Administrative Operations Specialist
Salary: $72 553 - 113 047 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Feb 15 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Incumbent provides advice for management officials on a full range of administrative management functions and the effective utilization of financial, logistical, and workforce management.
For more information about the duties of this position, see the "Education Information" section for location specific points of contact.
Please see "Education" section for contact information.
Duties
Duties listed below are at the Full Performance Level.
Serve as the organization advisor on workforce matters by coordinating organizational needs with office requirements.
Keep management informed of new or revised administrative policies, regulations, and procedures that affect the organization.
Work with servicing Human Resources office representatives to identify and resolve workforce needs and problems.
Provide coordination, direction and policy interpretation, and guidance regarding the preparation, revision, monitoring, and evaluation of organization budget estimates.
Provide coordination, direction and policy interpretation, and guidance regarding the preparation, revision, monitoring, and evaluation of organization budget estimates.
Direct the initiation and processing of personnel actions.
Provide technical and administrative supervision to subordinate employees.
Foster an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the organization.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
- Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
Qualifications
In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards.
Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.
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.
Specialized Experience Requirement:
For the GS-11 level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least to the GS-09 grade level; Examples of specialized experience are: Managing all administrative functions in an office setting; advising management officials on administrative management functions and the effective utilization of financial, logistical, and workforce resources; planning, organizing, directing, and coordinating office activities; analyzing and advising on the administrative implications of proposed management decisions; reviewing and coordinating operating budgets.
OR
A Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related;
OR
An appropriate combination of specialized experience and graduate level education (beyond what is required for a master's degree, i.e., more than 36 semester hours leading to a Ph.D.).
For the GS-12 level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least to the GS-11 grade level. Examples of specialized experience are: Oversaw a program that consisted of a variety of functions that included incoming/outgoing correspondence, records management, publications/forms management, administrative standard operating procedures, administrative internal controls, and organizational files management; provided advice for management officials on a full range of administrative management functions and the effective utilization of financial, logistical, and workforce management; planned and conducted complex analytical studies of organizational elements and works to identify problems and approve resource utilization, administrative support, and management effectiveness; planned the work to be accomplished by the unit, assigns work to employees, and establishes production or quality standards for the unit's work.
TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
PROMOTION POTENTIAL: If you are selected for a position with further promotion potential, you will be placed under a career development plan, and may be non-competitively promoted if you successfully complete the requirements and if recommended by management. However, promotion is neither implied or guaranteed.
Education
There is no education requirement for this position.
Location and Contact Information
Contacts
- Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center
DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
Albuquerque, NM 87109
US
- Name: HRM Contact Center
- Phone: 1-877-372-7248 X2
- Email: [email protected]
