Summary You are responsible for the completeness and accuracy of your application package. We encourage you to read the entire announcement before starting the application process. Qualifications and requirements must be met by the announcement closing date. This recruitment is subject to restrictions of the DoD referral system for displaced employees. Additional positions may be filled from this announcement up to 90 days after it closes. Responsibilities Serves as a Secretary (OA) at a Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) HQ facility. The primary purpose of this position is responsible for planning, programming, reviewing, analyzing, and coordinating all administrative activities involved in the accomplishment of the assigned mission to include technical and administrative program reporting, consolidation of review, and analysis. Position responsibilities include: Responsible for continuous identification and evaluation of supply publications, directive authorization documents and maintenance of publication library. Receive visitors and telephone calls from other management personnel within the Agency, other Federal Agencies, and industry representatives to the directorate. Respond to routine and nontechnical requests for information such as status of reports, suspense dates for matters requiring compliance and similar information readily available from the files. Receive incoming correspondence, screening material prior to distribution for suspense dates, establishing controls, and following up for supervisor. Perform various administrative duties, such as making extensive travel arrangements, making complete arrangements for conferences, composing complex but nontechnical correspondence, and locating and assembling information for various reports, briefings, conferences, etc. Responsible for generating and monitoring personnel actions (SF-52's) via Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS). Human Resource Directors Calendar. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications See the OPM Qualification Standards for more information. This position is covered under Clerical and Administrative Positions. One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-06 grade level or equivalent to at least GS-06 under other Federal service pay systems, private sector, or military by the closing date of this announcement. Education may not be substituted for specialized experience at this grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service program (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. Examples of qualifying specialized experience: Checking correspondence for proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and reviewing documents for conformance with formats and procedural requirements. Performing general administrative functions and procedures, such as distributing and controlling mail, referring phone call and visitors, and providing general, non-technical information. Using computer programs in the performance of regular duties such as word processing, creating presentations, and organizing file systems. You must also meet the following requirements by the announcement closing date: Current and former federal employees in either the competitive or excepted service and current federal employees applying under VEOA eligibility are subject to time-in-grade. You must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade level to be eligible for promotion. See the Required Documents section to learn what documents are necessary to show you meet this requirement. Current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens." Education Education used to qualify for this position must be from an accredited school or educational institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and a copy of your transcript is required as part of your application package. For the application process, unofficial transcripts are acceptable if they contain the applicant's name, the name of the school, the date and degree that was awarded, and the list of classes and credits earned. Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position. If selected, you must provide an official transcript before we set your entrance on duty date. Foreign Education. If using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show a private organization specializing in interpreting foreign education programs has deemed the foreign education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program or show that a U.S. accredited college or university has given full credit for the foreign courses. You may not use education to qualify. Additional Information We encourage you to review the Safer Federal Workplace information regarding COVID-19. To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. Therefore, to the extent a Federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to E.O. 14043, that requirement does not currently apply. Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of selected applicants for the purposes of implementing other workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and quarantine. Applicants with a Permanent Resident Card (aka Green Card) are authorized to live and work in the U.S. but are not eligible for employment in positions requiring U.S. citizenship. This position requires U.S. citizenship. The minimum age requirement is generally 18 years of age. Employing those under 18 may be possible under certain circumstances. If under 18 years of age, ensure you provide documentation showing how you are eligible. Subject to occasional overtime. Position is Non Exempt from Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Position is not covered by a bargaining unit. Position is not obligated. Financial Difficulty does not automatically remove you from consideration for a position. Position does not meet the DoD criteria for re-employing former Federal employees who retired under either the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). Deliberate attempts to falsify your application information, such as copying portions of this job announcement into your resume, may result in you being removed from consideration for this position. PCS Is Not Authorized. The employee may be required to work at times under stressful conditions due to the type work involved in the directorate. The employee may be required to work overtime. The employee may be required to travel in TDY status when meetings or conferences are necessary away from the work site. Travel may be required by government or commercial aircraft or conveyance. This position is designated as an IT Level II position, responsible for automated access to or processing of sensitive but unclassified information/controlled unclassified information that is limited in scope or adequately controlled through significant monitoring and/or other methodology to oversee use and minimize risk. Authorized access to personal, private, proprietary, or sensitive but unclassified/uncontrolled information, the unauthorized disclosure of which could cause limited damage to individuals, business entities, or government programs or operations or any potential damage is limited to the local level.
