Student Trainee (Administration and Analysis)

The Post Secondary Student Trainee is responsible for carrying out a range of duties within the program's scope and assignment. The student trainee will perform both procedural and substantive work supporting administrative and analytical functions (e.g., administrative support, management analyst support, program analysis support, and personnel support) and provide office automation support using multiple applications to produce a wide range of documents.

To qualify for Student Trainee (Administration and Analysis) at the GS-05 grade level, applicants must possess the following experience and/or education:

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-04 grade level, in the Federal Service. Examples of specialized experience:

• Providing administrative support to others, such as: proofreading correspondence for format and grammar, tracking action items, reviewing forms for completeness, and responding to telephone inquiries.
• Using Microsoft Outlook to compose and send emails, create, and manage appointments for self and others.
• Using Microsoft PowerPoint to create and edit presentations, creating slides by adding bullets and text, placing graphics, inserting charts, reordering slides, etc.
• Using Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets and possess the ability to imbed basic mathematical formulas and functions in order to calculate, sort, manipulate and reformat data.
• Conducting research over the internet to obtain information.

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Education: Four years of education above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.

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Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60. Add the two percentages.

Post Secondary Students are TERM appointments NTE 4 years in the competitive service. Upon successful completion of all program requirements and at the agency's discretion, the student may be eligible for non-competitive conversion to a career/career-conditional appointment. See Additional Information section for more details.

Open to students who are currently enrolled, or accepted for enrollment, in high school, seeking a diploma or degree in an accredited technical or vocational school, 2-year or 4-year college or university, graduate or professional school, qualifying career or technical educational program, including registered Apprenticeship Programs and certain volunteer service programs (such as Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Job Corps, Climate Corps), on a full- or half-time basis as defined by the educational institution.

If you do not meet this definition, you will not be considered.

An academic year of undergraduate education is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in an accredited college or university.

You must submit an academic transcript from your academic institution showing the date that you most recently completed the academic requirements described above. See the Required Documents section of this announcement. If you do not submit a transcript indicating your possession of the required education, you will not be considered for this position.

Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.

If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position. Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.

Salary : $46,610