Secretary (OA)

WHAT IS TAXPAYER SERVICES?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisionsPosition(s) are to be filled in following area(s):

• TS - CAS-Customer Account Services

This position has career progression. If selected at a lower grade level you may be promoted without further competition to the full working level as your career progresses.

REVIEW THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW FOR FURTHER DETAILSQualifications:

Federal experience is not required. Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or through Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To qualify for this position, you must meet the qualification requirements outlined below:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR GS-08:You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position must include:

• Screening and answering telephone calls;
• Arranging conferences and when required, record and transcribe minutes;
• Scheduling meetings for manager's calendars
• Preparing travel arrangements for executive/manager
• Reviewing correspondence, reports and other documents for proper format, grammar, punctuation, and mathematical correctness and writing simple or complex non-technical correspondence;
• Briefing on important and office related facts, issues, and reports;
• Providing administrative support services such as preparing personnel actions, reconciling bank/credit account statements and credit card reports and ordering and maintaining supplies;
• Retrieving, gathering, and generating data, as well as using various word processing, spreadsheet, slides, and statistical data computer software applications.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR GS-09:You must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-08 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position must include:

• Obtaining needed background information before referring calls and visitors and referring items of special importance;
• Arranging meetings and conferences and assembling material for agenda items;
• Maintaining manager's calendar (scheduling meetings, resolving scheduling conflicts, etc.);
• Preparing travel arrangements for executive/manager and/or reviews travel documents for executives and senior managers;
• Reviewing action documents for grammar, format, clarity of information, and conformance with the manager's viewpoint;
• Serving as liaison by briefing on views on current issues, programs, and activities; Conducting periodic training sessions;
• Performing administrative support assignments such as, setting up controls to monitor expenses and recommending adjustments, preparing reports and requests for procurement of supplies and equipment;
• Completing personnel action requests.

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You must also meet the following requirement(s):

• TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT (TACA): 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".
• TIME IN GRADE (TIG): For positions above the GS-05,applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the grade you are applying for. For positions at the GS-5, you cannot advance to the GS-05 if you have held a GS-02 in the past 52 weeks. There is no TIG restriction for GS-02, 03, or 04 positions.

• TYPING AND OFFICE AUTOMATION (OA):
  • Typing: This position requires a qualified typist with a minimum typing speed of 40 words per minute (based on a 5-minute sample with three or fewer errors).
  • Office Automation (OA): This position requires experience using office automation systems, software practices and procedures.

For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.

Education:A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.

We recommend choosing an evaluator from a member organization of one of the following national associations of credential evaluation services: National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE).Employment Type: OTHER

Salary : $55,882