Support Services Specialist.

Duties

• Provides leadership and/or functional direction related to mail services, communications, building security, directives, forms/reports, office machine operations, travel services, transportation, and/or related work.
• Initiates and coordinates submission of personnel actions to include onboarding/off boarding, performance ratings, employee orientation, payroll assistance, and/or volunteer program matters.
• Plans and performs general property management support services, such as maintenance and disposal of equipment.
• Responsible for budget planning, work planning, budget formulation, budget tracking, and/or staff cost tracking for a unit or organization.
• Purchases supplies or equipment, verifies purchase order receipts, and follows up on invoices and/or other payment documents for a unit or organization. Advises staff on availability of procurement funds.
• Plans work to be accomplished, sets and adjusts short-term priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work.
• Performs supervisory duties 20% or less of the time.
  
  

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served. Refer to the Next Steps section for more information.
• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
  
  

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the

Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.

Specialized Experience Requirement

For the GS-8 level: You must have one (1) year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as one or more of the following:

• Prepared budget requests and monitoring expenditures for administrative operations, front desk operations, and/or facility maintenance in an automated system.
• Prepared, controlled, coordinated, and assembled information for procurement documents.
• Updated and maintained a database for real property management, records and correspondence management.
  
  

OR

Successfully completed two full years (36 semester/54 quarter hours) of successfully completed graduate level education or master's degree if the coursework is directly related to the work of the position (i.e. Public Administration, Business Administration, or other administrative or management fields related to the position being filled) and the education was obtained at an accredited college or university.

OR

an appropriate combination of graduate level education beyond 18 semester hours/27 quarter hours that is directly related to the position (i.e. Public Administration, Business Administration, or other administrative or management fields related to the position being filled) and specialized experience.

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.

TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

See above for education that may be qualifying for the specific grade level.

Additional information

The Forest Service may use certain incentives and hiring flexibilities, currently offered by the Federal government, to attract highly qualified candidates. Additional Information is available on the

Transfer of station may be authorized. Final determination will be made at time of official job offer.

This is a non-bargaining unit position.

Forest Service daycare facilities may be available.

Government Housing may be available.

We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.