About this role

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/05/2026. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-8 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service.

An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Examples of appropriate SF-50s include: Within grade increases at the highest grade held; or Promotions with an effective date more than one year old; or SF-50s at the highest grade held with an effective date more than one year old.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience as described below. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-7 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Specialized experience is defined as: Maintaining executive schedule/calendar or day-to-day plans. Performing full range of secretarial and administrative duties. Scheduling and attending meetings. Preparing meeting minutes and follow up actions. Processing and editing incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, and memoranda; reviewing documents for grammatical errors and referring each item to the appropriate individual/service for response in a timely manner.

Performing timekeeping duties. Procuring purchasing supplies. Receiving, evaluating, and screening all calls and visitors, forwarding them to the appropriate service/individual for response. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

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