Administrative Support Assistant (OA)

Summary

You will serve as a Administrative Support Assistant (OA) with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Duties

This is a temporary promotion and/or detail not to exceed 1 year and can be extended up to 5 years. There are no qualification requirements for a detail assignment however, employees must meet any positive education/licensure requirements and have experience which demonstrates the ability to perform the major duties of the position. Detail assignments do not include additional or reduced compensation, including locality pay, but benefit from the experience gained, and the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and skills. Time spent on a detail is not creditable for time-in-grade purposes. This position serves as an administrative support assistant at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, based out of the park's Headquarters Building near Gatlinburg, TN. Primary responsibilities include: Programming, tracking, adjusting, and communicating about a divisional budget composed of multiple fund sources. Executing payroll and purchasing tasks for the division, as well as providing administrative support for travel. Serving as human resources support for division staff, including helping with seasonal and permanent hiring packages, maintaining a division org chart, and entering and retrieving data from federal personnel systems. Providing office services such as file management, fleet management, property management, meeting scheduling, and administrative guidance to staff.

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 11/23/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Selective Placement Factors: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. If you do not provide evidence that you possess the following selective factor(s), you will be rated not qualified. This position requires an ability to type at least 40 words per minute. Candidates who do not meet this requirement by close of this announcement will receive no further consideration for this position. You must indicate your ability by submitting documentation from a completed typing test or indicating the ability in your resume. -AND- To qualify for this position at the GS-07 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: Specialized Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-06 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: executing payroll and purchasing tasks for park staff; providing administrative support for employee travel; serving as human resources support for division staff, including helping with seasonal and permanent hiring packages, onboarding/offboarding, maintaining a division org chart, and entering and retrieving data from federal personnel databases as assigned; and providing office services such as file management, fleet management, property management, meeting scheduling, and administrative guidance to staff. You must include hours per week worked. Volunteer 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.

Education

This position does not allow substituting education for experience.