Executive Staff Assistant (OA), NB-0318-IV

As a Secretary (OA), you will: Serve as an office manager, ensuring efficiency in the administration of office policies, practices, and procedures, recommending changes as needed, and fostering a spirit of teamwork and mutual support.

Maintain a tracking system to correlate the many details involved in forward planning, arranging work in an orderly manner, and providing follow-through for effective and efficient office management.

Schedule appointments, meetings, conferences, and briefings with the banking industry; federal, state, and local government agencies; public interest groups; outside legal counsel; the press, members of Congress; and the general public with complete authority for commitment of time, using independent judgement and knowledge of the executive's goals, objectives and priorities.

Serve as a liaison between executive and staff members, providing or requesting feedback on programs, policies, projects, and problems through effective communications and interpersonal relationships. Coordinate budget documents for the assigned office.

Gather data on travel, conferences, training, and other major expenditures, consolidate data into prescribed format, develop a system to monitor expenses, and reconcile accounts on periodic basis. Compose correspondence of a general administrative nature for executive or senior leadership signature.

You must meet the following requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the NB-III band level or GS-7 grade level in the Federal service.

Examples of specialized experience for this position include: Providing office management and operational support services to senior executives such as planning, organizing, coordinating and managing administrative functions (e.g., preparing correspondence, documents and reports, scheduling meetings/conferences and coordinating travel).

OR You may substitute education for experience as follows: As a general rule, education is not creditable at NB-IV and above for most clerical/administrative support positions covered by this standard; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position.

One (1) year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent one (1) year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, eighteen (18) semester hours should be considered as satisfying the one (1) year of full-time study requirements.

OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. One full academic year of study (30 semester hours) beyond the second year is equivalent to 6 months of specialized experience.

AND Typing proficiency of at least 40 words per minute. The 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-time work is considered on a prorated basis.

To receive any credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate the number of hours worked per week, on your resume.