Administrative Operations Specialist

Company: U.S. Secret Service
Location: White Plains
Posted on: March 25, 2020

Job Description:

SummaryJoining the Secret Service, Office ofInvestigations,White Plains ResidentOfficewill allow you toperform administrative, clerical, and office automation functions essential to the protective and investigative operations of the division. ThisAdministrative Operations Specialist position starts at a salary of$49,976(GS-07, Step 1), with promotion potential to $79,472(GS-9, Step 10). For more information on the Secret Service click here.ResponsibilitiesThe selectee will serve as an Administrative Operations Specialist in the Officeof Investigations, White Plains ResidentOffice. Typical work assignments include: Providing administrative support and implementation for financial/budget administration; training; inspections; recruitment; evidences and inventory control; record management; and human resources management.Reviewing incoming communication and preparing replies to general inquires and routine actions; responding to administrative issues and inquires and resolving a variety of conflicts regarding administrative processes.Utilizing a variety of office automated programs, applications, tools and systems to generate reports, graphics, charts, graphs and PowerPoint presentations.Preparing memoranda and official messages;advising internal and external stakeholders on all procedural and administrative functions; providing guidance on appropriate response to actions; resolving a variety of administrative problems related to staff actions and assignments.RequirementsConditions of EmploymentU.S. citizenship is required.Conditions of Employment If selected for this position, you will be required to: Obtain and maintain a Top Secret Tier 5clearance.For more information visitOPM Mythbuster Page.Submit to random drug testing while you occupy the position.QualificationsGS-7: You qualify for the GS-7 level (salary $49,976) if you possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 level performing duties such as: performing administrative, clerical, and office automation support functions; maintaining administrative files; preparing travel orders, updating property inventory, billing, and records management; recording data and communicating report findings to key stakeholders; OR1 full year of graduate level education OR superior academic achievementGS-9: You qualify for the GS-9 level (salary $61,131) if you possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level performing duties such as; maintaining office calendar and meeting schedules; establish, review, update and develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); reviewing reports and other information as it relates to financial information and documents; and analyzing and reporting data and communicating report findings to key stakeholders; ORA master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related; ORA combination of graduate level education and experience.This will be calculated using your rsum and unofficial transcripts or a list of courses/course hours submitted with your application.Time-in-Grade: Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. Qualifications Must Be Met: The qualification requirements listed above must be met by the closing date of this announcement.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.EducationSee Qualifications section.Additional InformationBuilding on a Tradition of Excellence and Meeting the Challenges of the Future The Secret Service is a premier law enforcement organization with two critical national security missions: protect our nation's leaders and to conduct criminal investigations. Our team members continue a tradition of excellence - whether investigating financial crime or protecting national and visiting foreign leaders. In the Secret Service, we serve the country with duty, loyalty, justice, integrity and courage. In the Secret Service, we: Protect the President, the Vice President, and other leaders; investigate threats against them; and safeguard their residences and other facilitiesPlan and implement security designs for National Special Security EventsInvestigate financial crimes including fraud, identity theft and computer-based attacks on banking or telecommunications infrastructure Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for DHS to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.Any offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement will be consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance, and Office of Management and Budget plans and policies concerning hiring. These authorities are subject to change.Relocation expenses will not be authorized.The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR 213.3102(u), and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR 315.707.Veterans, Peace Corps/VISTA volunteers, and persons with disabilities possess a wealth of unique talents, experiences, and competencies that can be invaluable to the DHS mission. If you are a member of one of these groups, you may not have to compete with the public for federal jobs. To determine your eligibility for non-competitive appointment and to understand the required documentation, click on the links above or contact the Servicing Human Resources Office listed at the bottom of this announcement.View common definitionsof terms found in this announcement.

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