Summary The Division of Fair Labor Standards (FLS) within the Solicitor's Office is seeking a Staff Assistant to help manage our office. FLS provides legal services related to workers' rights to minimum wage, overtime, and other protections. Our Staff Assistant makes our attorneys' work possible by overseeing our budget, including making purchases of necessary supplies and tracking spending; facilitating personnel matters including hiring, promotions, and awards; and managing attorneys' travel. Responsibilities The Staff Assistant is responsible for supporting FLS's office leadership, in particular the Deputy Associate Solicitor, in managing the Division. The Staff Assistant exercises responsibility for a variety of confidential and administrative duties, including: Managing the Division's budget, including tracking and projecting spending as well as properly procuring goods and services for the Division; Managing the Division's personnel activities, including hiring, promotions, details, and awards; Arranging travel by Division employees; Taking responsibility for office equipment and facilities, including monitoring inventory, preparing workspaces, and coordinating with building management as necessary; and Coordinating the activities of other members of the support staff team. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Federal Employees Please Note: Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met and reflect your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure, and the type of appointment (i.e. competitive/excepted). In some cases, you may need to submit more than one SF-50.IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. POSITION TITLES ALONE CANNOT BE USED TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE QUALIFIED. PLEASE LIST DATES IN MM/DD/YYYY FORMAT. THIS IS IMPERATIVE IN DETERMINING IF WHETHER YOU HAVE AT LEAST 1 YEAR OF CREDITABLE SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE. EXPERIENCE AND DATES WILL NOT BE ASSUMED. To be eligible at the GS-12 level, you must meet the basic requirements and the Specialized Experience to qualify for, as described below. For GS-12: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level GS-11, in the Federal Service AND you must have one year of specialized experience. Specialized Experience at this level is experience that has equipped the applicant with specific knowledge of experience supporting an office or operational environment from an administrative support perspective to include time and attendance, drafting memos, coordinating schedules, and doing basic research. Managing human resources actions, recruitment processes, onboarding and separation processing, and knowledge of grammar and writing techniques, ability to manage executive correspondence, knowledge of automated systems to carry out administrative functions on behalf of the management staff e.g., word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, email, scheduling, travel, budget, personnel, matter management, and/or other comparable software and systems; knowledge of document management/recording procedures; develops administrative directions, and able to take direction. Must also have experience complying with confidentiality and privilege requirements of an organized legal office. You MUST meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Your resume must support your responses to the questionnaire and qualification requirements. Failure to do so may result in an ineligible rating. Education There is no educational substitution at the GS-12 grade level. A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html. Additional Information