Summary You will serve as the Executive Assistant to the Director of Operations within COMMANDER, NAVY INSTALLATIONS COMMAND. Responsibilities You will serve as an executive liaison between the Director and several departmental senior staff for the administration of programs and personnel support, analyze policy and requirement issues, manage taskers and congressional routing of documents. You will provide expert technical, procedural, and administrative guidance on the planning, evaluation, and/or improvement of the effectiveness of departmental operations, programs, and policies. You will be responsible for the direction and performance of all administrative support functions and associated managerial tasking support of senior leadership. You will plan and arrange sensitive domestic and foreign travel documents; plan, prepare, and coordinate schedules, itineraries, passport/visa requests, lodging, and travel accounting; plan and support the transportation of material and people. You will compile and evaluate information from staff meetings and weekly reports and determine required actions; task actions to appropriate offices; plan, develop, and maintain a system to generate reminders for completion deadlines. You will review all correspondence/assessments/packages for content, accuracy, and completeness by ensuring information, background, and references are complete and editing for appropriate format, grammar, and spelling. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications FOR GS-13: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Administrating and evaluating command programs and business operations in order to advise leaders and other key stakeholders in making informed decisions on program, planning, budget, execution and policy issues; 2) Applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques, both qualitative and quantitative, and/or management and organizational principles to programs, projects, and studies concerning efficiency and effectiveness of operations with methods for improvement; 3) Evaluating and/or forecasting potential requirements, de-conflicting problems, and/or planning and projecting time for historically recurring requirements; 4) Delivering sensitive and controversial material and recommendations to senior-level agency staff and other government agencies; 5) Negotiating with and persuading high-level managers regarding the adjustment of operating plans and modification of established methods and procedures, as well as developing and implementing new ones. *EXPERIENCE MUST BE FULLY SUPPORTED IN YOUR RESUME. FOR GS-12: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Drafting, reviewing, and/or editing written materials, including program guidance, informational/decision memoranda, pre-meeting background briefings, talking points for meetings, speeches, testimony, and/or decision proposals/justifications; 2) Developing and/or providing briefings and reports to leadership on program issue status to include justifying and defending proposals, and requests for resources in order to influence guidance and decision making; 3) Scheduling, planning, managing, and/or implementing daily meetings, special projects, ranging from de-conflicting schedules and active time management; 4) Planning for travel, making recommendations for senior level engagements, utilizing official systems to accomplish orders and serving as steward of government resources. *EXPERIENCE MUST BE FULLY SUPPORTED IN YOUR RESUME. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series 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 Additional Information This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees. A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized. Vacancies filled from this announcement may be filled at any grade level listed. If selected below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management. Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. During the application process you will have the option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation. ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/ Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.