This position is located in Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Office of the Superintendent, New London, CT.

Duties

You will serve as the Secretary to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Superintendent and the staff for Coast Guard, providing secretarial and office management support as well as directing all program, administrative and support operations for the Command.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• This position requires a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI).
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.

Qualifications

You qualify for the GS-09 grade level if you possess one year of specialized experience at the GS-08 grade level performing duties such as: Reviewing and editing all outgoing correspondence; Preparing correspondence and other documents in proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and format; Receiving visitors, maintaining files, incoming correspondence, typographical errors; Scheduling supervisor's activities, composing correspondence, resolving problems, locating information, organizing workflow of office; Following up on action items, requisitioning supplies, equipment, services for the office chief and staff; Identifying workflow problems, scheduling conflicts, and other situations with negative impact on organizational efficiency or effectiveness; Performing records management duties including developing, maintaining, verifying and evaluating existing systems; Performing advance office automation work; organize data into graph, spreadsheets, or other mediums of representation; Explaining non-technical policies/procedures with authority to establish administrative priorities, assign work, interpret guidelines and manage the office. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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.The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.  If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here

Contacts

• Address United States Coast Guard 2401 Hawkins Point Road STOP 4 Baltimore, Maryland 21226 United States
• Name: USCG Applicant Support
• Phone: 866-656-6830
• Email: [email protected]