Mission Support Assistant (OA)

Summary

About the Position: Serves as a principle administrative assistant in the Mission Support Office providing support to overall District operations and General and Administrative (G&A) offices throughout Seattle District.

Duties

• Initiate, process and track Government Purchase Card/VISA purchases.
• Use the Corps of Engineers Financial Management System (CEFMS) to track, obligate and expend resources.
• Finalizes, reviews, and electronically routes correspondence, correcting formatting, grammar, and punctuation.
• Keeps current with regulations pertaining to travel procedures to prepare travel orders, obtain approvals, review voucher submissions, and prepare local travel vouchers.
• Arrange for meetings or assembles background materials required for events.
• Use various computer software to process and produce a wide range of related documents, some of which involve complex formats, as requested.
• Creates, edits, and reformats reports requiring advanced functions.
• Responds to requests for information or materials representing various phases of the district’s activities pertaining to the technical information system.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees with competitive status Current Civilian Employees of the Command Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Minimum Qualifications for the GS-07 grade level: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes all of the following: experience using a Government purchase/Visa to include purchasing supplies/services, tracking obligations/expenditures in an automated financial system, coordinate with vendors, and reconcile statements; AND (2) experience using Microsoft Office software to create, edit and reformat reports. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-06). Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-06).