Secretary (Office Automation) Position Available In Beaufort, South Carolina

Secretary (Office Automion) Department of Defense Department of Defense Educion Activity Summary About the

Position:

Elliott Elementary School is part of the MCAS Beaufort (Laurel Bay) Schools Community in the DoDEA Americas Southeast District. Beaufort is loced on Port Royal Island, in the heart of the Sea Islands and South Carolina Lowcountry. The city is renowned for its scenic locion and for maintaining a historic character by preservion of its antebellum architecture. This position is covered by the American Federion of Government Employees DD1312 bargaining unit. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/15/2025 to 04/24/2025 Salary $40,332•$58,445 per year Pay scale & grade GS 5•6 Locion Beaufort, SC 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 6 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

NC7X257564613382

Control number 835187100 This job is open to Federal employees•Competitive service Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s hiring rules and pay scales. Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Land and base management Current or former employees of a base management agency. Veterans Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference Military spouses Military spouses relocing under PCS orders or whose spouse is 100% disabled or died while on active duty. Clarificion from the agency See “Who May Apply” in the “Qualificions” section for more informion on who is eligible to apply for this position. Duties Review outgoing correspondence for form, grammar, accuracy, conformance to office policy, completeness and coherence, and consistency. Prepare a variety of memorandums, documents, and forms. Compile informion for reports. Maintain an office calendar and suspense files. Receive calls, greets ors, and direct inquiries. Provide informion and guidance on school procedures, reports, and requirements, as well as school programs, policies, procedures, and activities. Maintain personnel time and tendance records to adhere to DoDEA policies. Coordine and arranges substitute teachers. Requirements Conditions of Employment Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certificion Stement for Selective Service Requirement. Proof of U.S. Citizenship required. Direct deposit of pay is required. One year probionary period may be required. Appointment subject to a suitability/fitness determinion, as determined by a background investigion. This position requires a Tier 1 (T1) investigion with Childcare Checks since its duties require interaction with children and youth under the age of eighteen (18) years of age.

Qualificions Who May Apply:

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority cegories below are eligible to apply for this job. You asked to identify which cegory or cegories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the cegory or cegories you selected. See for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Competitive Service Department of Defense Educion Activity (DoDEA) Civilian Employee Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Appropried Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and Nional 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 Reinstement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the educion and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 educion, your transcripts required as part of your applicion. Specialized Experience GS-05: One year of specialized experience which includes: utilizing office automion software to receive/compose routine correspondence from verbal or written instructions; scheduling appointments or meetings; and compiling da. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04).

OR Educion:

Four years of educion above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.

OR Combinion of Educion and Experience:

A combinion of educion and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of educion beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60. Add the two percentages. Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your educion for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualificion requirement using experience alone•no substitution of educion for experience is permitted. Specialized Experience GS-06 : I have one year of specialized experience which includes: managing office calendars; reviewing correspondence to ensure accuracy; and maintaining office records to include time and tendance, payroll and/or leave records. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05). Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your educion for the required experience in order to qualify. For this grade, you must meet the qualificion requirement using experience alone•no substitution of educion for experience is permitted. This position requires a qualified typist. A qualified typist can type 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors. Time in Grade Requirement GS-06: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-05). Time in Grade GS-05: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) positions within the last 52 weeks may not be promoted more than 2 grades within the preceding 52 weeks. Educion

FOREIGN EDUCATION

If you are using educion completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualificion requirements, you must show the educion credentials have been evalued by a prive organizion th specializes in interpretion of foreign educion programs and such educion has been deemed equivalent to th gained in an accredited U.S. educion program; or full credit has been given for the courses a U.S. accredited college or university. For further informion, : Additional informion Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Management may select any of the grade levels announced. This recruitment provides promotion opportunity to the target grade of the position without further competition when selectee is eligible and recommended by management. Duties described reflect the full performance GS-06 level. If not selected the full performance level, duties performed in a developmental capacity under close supervision. You may claim Military Spouse preference. Military Spouse Preference (MSP) applicants will receive preference considerion and placed (if selected) the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined best qualified, up to and including the full performance level. You may claim Priority Placement Program (PPP) preference. DoD Priority Placement Program (PPP) Applicants will receive preference considerion the full-performance grade level only. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the informion in the informion sheet. I’ve added the blurb to the announcement temples and tached the informion sheet link Reasonable Accommodion (RA)

Requests :

If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online applicion. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudicion decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments here: Benefits How You Will Be Evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. You evalued based on how well you meet the qualificions listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide on the applicion questionnaire, and the result of the online assessments required for this position. You assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Accountability Attention to Detail Clerical Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Manages and Organizes Informion Oral Communicion Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork Written Communicion The USA Hire Assessments includes a cut score based on the minimum level of required proficiency in these critical general competencies. You must meet or exceed the cut score to be You will not be considered for the position if you score below the cut score or fail to complete the assessment. Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on the online assessment may also result in your removal from considerion. Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in writing th you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP considerion, you may receive selection priority for this position. To receive selection priority, you must: (1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria (2) be red well-qualified for the position and; (3) submit the approprie documention to support your ICTAP eligibility. To be considered well-qualified and receive selection priority applicants must sisfy all qualificion requirements for the position and receive a score of 90 or above. Additional informion about the program is on OPM’s Career Transition Resources website. Additional informion about the program is on . Benefits Required Documents As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have•whether you’re a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you’re eligible under their policies. The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (e.g. applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstement). Please review the following link to see which documents you need to provide to prove your eligibility to apply: . As described above, your complete applicion includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you marked as having an incomplete applicion package and you will not be considered any further. 1.

Your resume:

Your resume may be submitted in any form and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions and you may not be considered for this vacancy. For qualificions determinions your resume must contain hours worked per week and the des of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion marked as incomplete and you will not receive considerion for this position. You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as th informion may be taken into considerion during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documention.

For additional informion see:

2.

Other supporting documents:

Cover Letter, optional Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable Proof of Eligibility to

Apply:

Your applicion must include the documents which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion recruitment and wh document(s) are required to prove you meet the requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of least one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive further considerion.

Time-in-grade documention:

If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old).

Transcripts:

This position has an individual occupional requirement and/or allows for substitution of educion for experience. You MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your applicion package or you red ineligible. You MUST scan, upload and tach legible photocopies of the following transcripts: Bachelor’s Transcript Master’s Transcript. This transcript is required IF it applies to you. EDS Transcript. This transcript is required IF it applies to you. Doctore’s transcript. This transcript is required IF it applies to you.

NOTE:

Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person’s personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. To preview the applicion questionnaire, click the following link: Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on 04/24/2025. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click “Track this applicion” to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. For more general informion, system requirements, reasonable accommodion informion, and to request assistance regarding the USA Hire Assessments, review the following resources: To upde your applicion, including supporting documention : During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus : Click on this: . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. Agency contact informion Army Applicant Help Desk Website Address Elliott Elementary School 345 Elliott Drive Beaufort, SC 29906 US Next steps If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your applicion. Your applicion package used to determine your eligibility, qualificions, and quality ranking for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your applicion will receive no further considerion. Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973, as amended. Fair and Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Required Documents The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (e.g. applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstement). Please review the following link to see which documents you need to provide to prove your eligibility to apply: . As described above, your complete applicion includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you marked as having an incomplete applicion package and you will not be considered any further. 1.

Your resume:

Your resume may be submitted in any form and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions and you may not be considered for this vacancy. For qualificions determinions your resume must contain hours worked per week and the des of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion marked as incomplete and you will not receive considerion for this position. You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as th informion may be taken into considerion during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documention.

For additional informion see:

2.

Other supporting documents:

Cover Letter, optional Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable Proof of Eligibility to

Apply:

Your applicion must include the documents which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion recruitment and wh document(s) are required to prove you meet the requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of least one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive further considerion.

Time-in-grade documention:

If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old).

Transcripts:

This position has an individual occupional requirement and/or allows for substitution of educion for experience. You MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your applicion package or you red ineligible. You MUST scan, upload and tach legible photocopies of the following transcripts: Bachelor’s Transcript Master’s Transcript. This transcript is required IF it applies to you. EDS Transcript. This transcript is required IF it applies to you. Doctore’s transcript. This transcript is required IF it applies to you.

NOTE:

Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person’s personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. To preview the applicion questionnaire, click the following link: Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on 04/24/2025. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click “Track this applicion” to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. For more general informion, system requirements, reasonable accommodion informion, and to request assistance regarding the USA Hire Assessments, review the following resources: To upde your applicion, including supporting documention : During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus : Click on this: . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. Agency contact informion Army Applicant Help Desk Website Address Elliott Elementary School 345 Elliott Drive Beaufort, SC 29906 US Next steps If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your applicion. Your applicion package used to determine your eligibility, qualificions, and quality ranking for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your applicion will receive no further considerion. Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973, as amended. Fair & Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/15/2025 to 04/24/2025 Salary $40,332•$58,445 per year Pay scale & grade GS 5•6 Locion Beaufort, SC 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 6 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

NC7X257564613382

Control number 835187100 ., .