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WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OTHER IRS CAREERS? Visit us on the web at www.jobs.irs.govQualifications:
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR GS-07:
You must have 1 Year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Screening and answering outline telephone calls and visitors to the office and determining which require personal attention; Preparing a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, requisitions, requests for personnel actions and legal documents; Establishing, organizing, and maintaining files of correspondence, manuals, and other related information; Reviewing correspondence, documentation, and reports for proper format, grammar, punctuation, and mathematical correctness; Gathering and assembling necessary supporting documentation from a wide variety of resources and extracting information from computer systems to prepare for reports; Providing advice, assistance and training to clerical support positions; Scheduling appointments, conferences, and/or travel, and assembling background material and preparing notes regarding topics to be discussed. Additionally, applicants must have a working knowledge of automation equipment with multiple software capabilities in order to create, manipulate, compute, report, retrieve, print and transmit data.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE FOR GS-08:
You must have 1 Year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Screening calls and visitors to the office, referring to staff members and forwarding to the supervisor only those calls or visitors requiring that person's attention; Scheduling appointments and making commitments for the supervisor to attend meetings, luncheons, etc., without prior approval; Arranging travel and also conferences, and when required, recording and transcribing minutes; Reading all incoming correspondence, determining proper action, at times preparing answers before referring to the supervisor; Writing simple or complex non-technical correspondence; Reviewing outgoing correspondence, reports and other documents prepared by professional employees in the organization, ensuring proper format, mathematical correctness, correct grammatical content, and ascertaining that all necessary coordination of facts has been completed and is in accordance with established policy; Briefing supervisor on important and office related facts, issues, and reports; Providing administrative support services; Instructing and assisting other secretaries on procedural matters such as the correct procedures to follow in preparing correspondence; and preparing correspondence for the supervisor's signature; Retrieving, gathering, and generating data, as well as using various word processing, spreadsheet, slides, and statistical data computer software applications in order to create, manipulate, compute, report, retrieve, print and transmit.
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MEET TIME IN GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT: You must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the GS-05 grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position you are applying to. Advancement to positions up to GS-05 is permitted if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade held within the preceding 52 weeks.
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TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens".
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You must meet the following requirements: Applicants must be a qualified typist with a minimum typing speed of 40 words per minute (based on a 5-minute sample with three or fewer errors). Applicants may meet these requirements by passing the appropriate performance test, presenting a certificate of proficiency from a school or other organization authorized to issue such certificates by the Office of Personnel Management local office, or by self-certifying their proficiency. Performance test results and certificates of proficiency are acceptable for three years. We may verify proficiency skills of self-certified applicants by administering the appropriate performance test.
Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis.
To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.
For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.
A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.Employment Type: FULL_TIME
