Administrative Support Specialist - Herndon, United States - US Small Business Administration

US Small Business Administration

Verified Company

Herndon, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Duties:

As an Administrative Support Specialist at the GS-0301-9, some of your typical work assignments may include:

Coordinate travel plans and reviews routine travel vouchers and audits travel voucher files for accuracy and adherence to agency and federal policies.
Complete time and attendance/payroll files, reviews routine and/or unusual time and attendance files for accuracy and adherence to SBA and federal policies.
Complete procurement/budget activities and other financial related operations.
Complete accountable property transactions, facilities maintenance and security, mailroom, supply and records management operations.
Monitor administrative functions to improve customer service, compiled reports, and procedural and production.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

This is a
Term appointment, competitive service position with an intermittent work schedule.
The
Term Appointment does not confer competitive status, reinstatement rights, or eligibility for noncompetitive conversion to a permanent job to the individual(s) selected. You may be promoted or reassigned to another term position within SBA's Office of Disaster Assistance; however, you may not be noncompetitively appointed to another Federal position. You will be given an initial Term Appointment lasting more than 1 year, but not more than 4 years. If all other conditions of employment are met, this appointment may be extended, up to a total of four (4) years in increments determined by SBA.
If selected, employees work on an intermittent (oncall) work schedule. This means that employees are in a pay and duty status only when activated to respond to workload needs, especially in response to heightened disaster activity. When no longer needed, employees return to a nonpay status until the next event necessitates additional staff. However, depending on the workload and/or level of disaster activity, your work schedule may be changed to fulltime. Subsequently, if the workload decreases, your work schedule may be changed back to intermittent.

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Mandatory Overtime:
In order to respond quickly and efficiently to disaster survivors, substantial compensated overtime hours may be required heighten Disaster Activities
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If required to travel to a disaster site, you may encounter hazardous working and/or living conditions, for example, no water or electricity and/or mínimal lodging facilities.
(Remove if not applicable):
Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur within 180 days from the closing date.

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This is not a bargaining unit position.

Requirements:

Conditions of Employment:

U.S. citizenship is required.
You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government travel credit card.
Favorable background investigation and credit check are required.
A valid driver's license may be required.
Must complete a oneyear Trial Period.
This position is not included in a bargaining unit.

Qualifications:

Experience:

To receive credit, you must indicate the
month and year as well as the
average hours worked per week for each employer.

Average work hours must be stated on the resume to quantify each period of work experience or that experience will not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement.

- GS-09: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service, obtained in either the private or public sector:

Experience in at least two of the following administrative service functions: travel arranging, travel vouchers, travel credit cards, travel support desk, payroll time and attendance processing, payroll leave audits, procurement and supply, mail services, supply and accountable properties, facilities and lease management, and/or records management; and
Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing with various internal and/or external customers; and

Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions.

It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications website:

Miscellaneous Administration and Program Series 0301 )
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.

Education:

GS-09: Successful completion of a master's or equivalent graduate degree in a related field or 2 full years of related progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B.

or J.D., if related.

Combination of Exper