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Job opening: ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIST

Salary: $55 924 - 72 703 per year
City: Herndon
Published at: Feb 22 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
* A recruitment incentive may be authorized for eligible highly qualified candidates* *This position qualifies for a referral bonus. See the additional information section below* This position is part of the Interior Business Center (IBC), IBC Financial Management Directorate. The incumbent will be responsible for a myriad of day-to-day administrative support services that impact the activities performed by the Financial Management Directorate.

Duties

Exercises control over the Associate Director and/or Deputy Director's appointments, schedules and calendars with authority for changes or commitments of time. Screens all calls and visitors, answering most non-technical questions and completing most administrative business involving established policy or routine matters, referring to the supervisor when necessary. Sorts and distributes incoming mail as appropriate. Serves as custodial property office over accountable property at the office location. Work with on-site employees to perform periodic inventory of property and keep official property records current. Organizes, orders, and tracks supplies, software, and other office equipment on behalf of Directorate employees. Serves as timekeeper for time and attendance reporting on a biweekly basis using the automated time and attendance system for the Associate Director's, Deputy and other senior managers as appropriate. Performs payment activity on behalf of client agencies by utilizing Treasury’s Secure Payment System (SPS) and reviewing/validating supporting documentation to support processing of the payment into the financial system. Assists in establishing and maintaining tracking systems and procedures for the office administrative activities. Makes purchases and maintains supporting documentation and internal controls over the government purchase card process.

Requirements

Qualifications

At the GS-07, you must meet one of the following qualifications: A. One year of specialized experience that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-5 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience that is in or directly related to the line of work of this position and has equipped you with the knowledge and competencies to successfully perform the duties of this position. More specifically, this requirement involves experience performing work in automated systems such as Oracle or SAP based systems; performing administrative functions such as scheduling meetings/appointments and/or organizing documents and materials; and a high degree of customer service etiquette and effective communication skills. B. Have one full year of graduate level education. C. Have equivalent combination of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience directly related to the work of this position as outlined above. For example: 9 semester hours of successfully completed graduate level education and 6 months of specialized experience. D. Have Superior Academic Achievement (SAA): To qualify for SAA, applicants must have completed all the requirements for a bachelor's degree in a curriculum related to the position to be filled and meet one of the following: Class standing - Applicant must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business Administration, based on completed courses. Grade-point average (G.P.A.) -- Applicants must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on their official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; or 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2years of the curriculum. Election to membership in a national scholastic honor society - Applicants can be considered eligible based on membership in one of the national scholastic honor societies recognized by the Association of College Honor Societies. Membership in a freshman honor society cannot be used to meet this requirement. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

If qualifying based on EDUCATION you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

Only education from institutions which are accredited or preaccredited/candidate for accreditation may be used to meet education requirements.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

  • Address IBC Financial Management Directorate 1849 C. Street NW Washington, DC 20240 US
  • Name: Jessica Romero
  • Phone: (303) 969-5538
  • Email: [email protected]

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