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Duties

WHAT IS THE WAGE AND INVESTMENTDIVISION? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas: Wage and Investment Operation Support The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position. Receives telephone calls and visitors for the manager, determines which calls can be answered personally, and which can be directed elsewhere. Obtains needed background information before referring calls to the manager. Receives and reviews all incoming mail and correspondence for the manager, referring items of special importance to the manager. Routes correspondence to staff members and establishes controls for response to action items. Reviews incoming directives and issuances, bringing those of interest to the manager's attention. Drafts or prepares routine correspondence and other written materials in final form on own initiative. Maintains the manager's appointment schedule, making final commitments, and advises the manager of appointments and commitments that might affect future decisions. Arranges meetings and conferences for the manager, including space, time, and staff. Assembles background material for agenda items, summarizes material for the manager's use, and informs participants of topics to be discussed. Reviews correspondence and action documents prepared for the signature of the manager for grammar, format, clarity of information and conformance with the manager's viewpoint. On own initiative, returns to the originator for correction. Maintains manager's confidential files and establishes and maintainsadministrative files. Serves as liaison between the manager and key subordinate staff members and other key officials. Briefs staff on the manager's views on current issues, programs, and activities. Serves as liaison to Regional and National Office officials concerning matters relating to controversial inquiries and other sensitive issues.

Requirements

Qualifications

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-8 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: You may have gained this experience in a full-time secretary, management assistant, personnel assistant, legal assistant position, and other similar positions where you work in a complex organization with subordinate organizational entities, requiring the establishment and maintenance of extensive internal procedures and reporting systems. Your sample tasks may have included: screening calls and visitors to the office, referring to staff members and forwarding to the supervisor only those calls or visitors requiring that person's attention; scheduling appointments and making commitments for the supervisor to attend meetings, luncheons, etc., without prior approval; reading all incoming correspondence, determining proper action, at times preparing answers before referring to the supervisor; reviewing outgoing correspondence and reports prepared by professional employees in the organization, ensuring proper format, mathematical correctness, correct grammatical content, and ascertaining that all necessary coordination of facts has been completed and is in accordance with established policy; responsible for budget accounts allotted to the office; explaining non-technical policies and procedures promulgated by the office after obtaining clarification from source; making recommendations and decisions in establishing priorities among actions on administrative matters requested by various employees or organizations; taking and distributes minutes of meetings; instructing and assists other secretaries on procedural matters such as the correct procedures to follow in preparing correspondence; and preparing correspondence for the supervisor's signature. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-9 LEVEL: You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-8 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: You may have gained this experience in a full-time secretary, management assistant, personnel assistant, legal assistant position, and other similar positions where you work in a large organization subdivided into several subordinate levels, where formal policies, procedures, and reporting requirements are necessary. Your work is completed under general supervision and your supervisor sets the overall objectives of the work, and from time-to-time, gives specific assignments with a brief explanation of the assignment's purpose. You set the deadlines for most of the work to be done. You perform the duties of the job independently, referring only the most complex problems to the supervisor. Many situations and conflicts arise which require you to determine the approach to resolve them. Your work is reviewed to ensure that the overall objectives of the position are met. Your sample tasks may include: receiving all visitors and telephone calls to the office, determining the nature of call or business of visitors; decided to whom visitors are referred; making appointments for the supervisor, establishing priorities, setting up, rescheduling, or refusing appointments, accepting or declining invitations to meetings, and arranging for representation by a subordinate official when that is desirable. AND MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks. AND TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens". For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

Education

For positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying for this position by substituting education or training for experience, submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. An official transcript will be required if you are selected.
A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.

Contacts

• Address WI - Operation Support 1111 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20224 US
• Name: (ERC) Employee Resource Center
• Phone: 866-743-5748
• Email: [email protected]