Staff Assistant

Summary

This position is located in the Bureau of African Affairs, Front Office (AF/FO). The Front Office provides overall direction to all policy and management activities for the Bureau and for Foreign Service posts in the region and enacts policy decisions; maintains liaison and coordinates with the Department and other U.S. agencies; and coordinates policy guidance with the Department's functional Bureaus and serves as the lead interagency clearing house for Africa foreign policy matters .

Duties

• •Coordinates and manages the production of information and materials (e.g., S/ES written guidance, Information and Action Memoranda, Congressional Correspondence, Congressional testimony, Questions for the Record (QFRs).
• •Ensures that accurate, appropriately concise, and timely information is available to executive management and policy officials.
• •Provides advice, analysis, information, oversight, assistance, and support to the Assistant Secretary and other senior officials in the planning, management, and administration of the Bureau.
• •Receives and manages disposition of a high volume of incoming tasking documents from regional offices in the Department and outside of the Department for high-level meetings, binational forums, speaking engagements.
• •Performs administrative work in personnel management/administration, budgeting and financial management, procurement and contracting, property management, and/or supply.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F. Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience researching and compiling information from various sources to be used in reports. Experience monitoring and tracking correspondence and document flow between multiple offices. Experience arranging office meetings, scheduling events, and preparing travel arrangements. There is no substitute of education for specialized experience for the GS-12 position.

Education

Education requirements do not apply to this vacancy announcement.