Job opening: Defense Travel System Specialist
Salary: $82 764 - 128 956 per year
Published at: Jul 10 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The mission of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) is to provide force protection, security, and law enforcement to safeguard personnel, facilities, infrastructure, and other resources for the Pentagon Reservation and designated DoD facilities (hereinafter referred to as "the Pentagon Facilities") within the National Capital Region (NCR).
Duties
Incumbent typical work assignments may include the following:
Identifies Agency system requirements and ensures all technical, administrative, and/or operational problems and conflicts are addressed and resolved.
Prepares and updates Agency Standard Operational Procedures on travel guidance.
Ensures certified billing statements, required supporting documentation, and all required information will be submitted to the designated disbursement office.
Serves as the Agency's Debt Management Monitor (DMM) with the responsibilities to initiate debt collection actions to recover monies owed to the government.
Completes annual risk assessments and statements of assurance of programs and submits findings to the Administrative Division Supervisor for review/approval.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/Home/Registration)
- Required to participate in the direct deposit program
- Individuals tentatively selected for drug testing designated positions will be required to submit to urinalysis for illegal drugs prior to appointment and are subjected to random drug testing.
- Position has been designated as Secret. Incumbent is required to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- The incumbent must adhere to DoD Standards of Conduct
- The employee assigned to this position is designated as a MISSION CRITICAL EMPLOYEE. Incumbent will be required to report to work or relocate to a new duty location, within the United States, in times of local/national emergency.
Qualifications
Time in Grade:
For entry at the GS-11 level, status applicants must have served 52 weeks as a GS-09 or higher grade in the Federal Service.
Specialized Experience:
For the GS-11, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable in difficulty and responsibility to GS-09 if outside the Federal service.
Specialized experience is defined as experience directing, coordinating, and providing advice and assistance to travelers; and analyzing procedures, and processes, relative to travel requirements.
Time in Grade:
For entry at the GS-12 level, status applicants must have served 52 weeks as a GS-11 or higher grade in the Federal Service.
Specialized Experience:
For the GS-12, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable in difficulty and responsibility to GS-11 if outside the Federal service.
Specialized experience is defined as experience directing, coordinating, and providing advice and assistance to travelers; and analyzing procedures, and processes, relative to travel requirements; and overseeing the setup and sustainment of the system, and monitoring data.
In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirements, qualified applicants must also possess the quality of experience as it relates to how closely or to what extent an applicant's background, recency of experience, education, and training are relevant to the duties and responsibilities of the announced position. Candidates must clearly demonstrate the possession of competencies necessary to successfully perform the work of the position at the appropriate level to be qualified for the position. Applicants must describe how their experience meets the competencies within the body of the resume. No separate statements addressing competencies are required.
Competencies: Attention to Detail, Decision Making, Oral Communication, Planning and Evaluating, Program/Project Management, and Technical Competence
Qualification and time-in-grade requirements must be met at the closing date of this announcement.
Education
GS-11 Substitution of Education for Experience: Three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree may be substituted to meet the qualifying experience requirement. If you are using education to substitute for the qualifying experience, you must submit transcripts at the time you apply.
Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate level education and experience may be used to meet total experience requirements.
If you are using education to substitute for the specialized experience, you must submit transcripts at the time you apply.
There is no substitution of education for the qualifying experience at the GS-12 grade level.
GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study
To be creditable, education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. You must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions that are recognized by the
U.S. Department of Education .
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 the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services at the time of application.
National Association of Credential Evaluation Services .
Contacts
- Address Pentagon Force Protection Agency
Human Resources Directorate
4800 Mark Center Drive
Alexandria, VA 22350
US
- Name: Washington HQ Services
- Phone: 000-000-0000
- Email: [email protected]
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