SOCIAL SERVICES ASSISTANT (OA)

Summary

You will serve as a SOCIAL SERVICES ASSISTANT (OA) in the Community Services Department of MARINE CORPS BASE.

Duties

• •You will guide customers to their Family Case Worker for assistance and when a Family Case Worker.
• •You will assist in the initial enrollment in the absence of a Family Case Worker.
• •You will assist customers with understanding and completing respire paperwork, ensure completeness and forward to the family case worker or program manager within the same day of receipt.
• •You will maintain and build relationships with community agencies to ensure current knowledge of services and resources available to clients.
• •You will collect and provide requested data on a monthly and yearly basis.
• •You will be responsible for minor interior building maintenance to include but not limited to, vacuuming, mopping, dusting, changing light bulbs and paper supplies.
• •You will maintain a list of property currently used and ensures proper disposal of outdated or old equipment.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-04 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: performing general administrative functions such as preparing required business and customer correspondence, maintaining calendars or purchase requests; providing resource guides and specific topic sheets that align with customers special medical or educational needs in accordance with local, state, and federal laws; maintaining office supplies and equipment by tracking usage and ordering replacements. Examples of Qualifying Experience Include: Group leader in community or residential recreation or training programs. Counselor in a youth summer camp. Instructor in a training program for the development of job skills. Work that demonstrated the ability to be responsible for and to lead and train members of a job crew. Group activities leader in the Armed Services. Unit leader-monitor-proctor for a dormitory group in a boarding school or other residential facility. Aid or assistant to professional or specialist staff in such fields as personnel (private or government), employment guidance in a vocational or academic institution, social service, or manpower development. Aid or assistant to professional or associate staff engaged in work of a social services nature in private, public welfare, government program, or community organizations, or in voluntary activities. Aid or assistant to professional or specialist staff working with individuals who are addicted to or abuse alcohol and/or drugs. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0100/social-services-aid-and-assistant-series-0186/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

In lieu of specialized experience: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree that (a) included at least 24 semester hours in any combination of subjects directly related to the work of the position; (b) included a major in social behavior, human behavior, or health care or; (c) was supplemented by specialized experience. OR A combination of experience and post high school education as described above that equates to one year of experience. The percentage of the required education plus the percentage of the required experience equal one hundred percent.