Administrative Support Specialist

Administrative Support Specialist

Department: Department of Agriculture

Location(s): Washington, District of Columbia

Salary Range: $102415 - $133142 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is located in the Office of the Administrator (OA), Risk Management Agency (RMA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, DC. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Administrative Support Specialist to the Administrator. The incumbent accomplishes a variety of administrative and program duties, applying a comprehensive knowledge of administrative concepts, programs, policies, and exercising independent judgment.

Major Duties:

• Serves as the primary point of contact and ambassador for RMA, professionally engaging with government officials, industry leaders, and stakeholders.
• Assist with the onboarding and offboarding of personnel within the office.
• Serves as RMA stakeholder correspondence coordinator, ensuring correspondences are processed in a timely manner.
• Manages scheduling, appointments, meetings, telephone calls, and travel arrangements for the Administrator.
• Manages official correspondence records and ensures compliance with federal documentation policies, including submission to the National Archives.
• Oversees briefing materials and ensures meeting objectives are met.
• Acts as the focal point for all actions involving the RMA Administrator, handling sensitive and confidential assignments.
• Oversees scheduling, vetting meeting requests, and preparing responses on behalf of the Administrator.
• Ensures the accuracy of information and data provided to the Approving Official in support of purchases made with the government travel card.

Qualifications: In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. If education is required or being used to qualify, you must submit a copy of your transcripts. Specialized Experience Requirement For the GS-12 grade level: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in federal service or comparable experience not gained through federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience performing and coordinating a full range of administrative specialties with professionalism and discretion to include: managing complex travel itineraries using travel planning systems such as Concur, Defense Travel System, Go.gov, Navan, Perk, etc.; Producing clear vetting reports on meeting participants for the Administrator and Chief of Staff's review; identifying and reporting any conflicts, sensitivities, or issues associated with any proposed speech mentions or meetings; Supervising day-to-day operations of the office, including monitoring calls, greeting visitors, preparing briefing documents, and ensuring all needs of the Administrator are met; and responding to first line inquiries and outgoing correspondence, ensuring alignment with the Administrator's goals and objectives and readiness for leadership signatures. 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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Time-in-Grade Requirement: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. You must meet this requirement by the closing date of this announcement.

How to Apply: Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documentation as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. Resumes cannot exceed two pages. The application process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about 3-4 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status: Visit https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/howto/application/status/. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Please verify that documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limitation to the number of documents that can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of consideration. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume that exceeds two pages will be removed from consideration. Our office cannot be responsible for incompatible software, your system failure, etc.

Application Deadline: 2026-05-12