Correspondence Management Specialist

This position is located in the Office of the Under Secretary and Director (OUS), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

The Correspondence Management Specialist serves as an authoritative advisor for all internal and external correspondence with direct responsibility of managing correspondence for the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Deputy Under Secretary, and Director of the USPTO.

Qualifications:

You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. OPM Qualifications Standards are available at Administrative and Management Positions

Specialized Experienceis experience that has equipped applicants with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the federal service. For this position, the next lower grade level is a GS-12.

Specialized experience for this position includes:

• Experience in editing and writing a wide variety of communications materials from all components of an organization;
• Experience in managing an agency wide executive documents program, including planning, organizing, and evaluating results; and
• Experience in conducting quality reviews of outgoing correspondence packages, ensuring adherence to procedural, grammatical, and security requirements.

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.

Responsibilities:

The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia. Presence at the Alexandria, VA campus is required for this role, as it includes on site functions that must be performed in person.

Position may be eligible for situational telework in accordance with agency policy/business unit discretion. The agency currently allows for 52 hours of telework per calendar year.

This rewarding career role is ideal for you if you are:

• Interested in performing management, administrative, and program support work related to correspondence coordination and control.
• Able to review correspondence prepared for signature of the Under Secretary and Deputy Under Secretary for conformance to regulations, grammar, format, and special policies of the office.
• Able to draft and edit responses to correspondence for signature of the Under Secretary and Deputy Under Secretary.
• Interested in reviewing and analyzing all incoming documents from external sources, the White House, Congress, the Secretary of Commerce, staff of the DOC and other government agencies, staff of the USPTO, and the general public to assess appropriate response and ensure assignment to an appropriate business unit to develop a specialized reply.

Salary : $121,785