Job opening: Secretary
Salary: $55 328 - 71 932 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Dec 30 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This vacancy is for a Secretary (OA), GS-0318-08, located in Warrenton, OR.
Duties
You will serve as Secretary and principal office assistant to the Commanding Officer providing secretarial and office management support, and directing all program, administrative and support operations for the Command.
Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:
Qualifications
To qualify at the GS-8 grade level, applicants must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-7 grade level in the federal sector. 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.
Specialized experience must include the following:
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;
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.
Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.
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