Total 82 Administrative / Clerical job vacancies in Sacramento, California

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-12. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

As a/an Program Analyst, you will:
Conduct analyses of regulatory and statutory proposals, initiatives, and multifamily housing program proposals submitted for review by outside parties, including use of analytical models to estimate program impacts, and evaluation of projects and initiatives based on sophisticated analytical processes.

Under the direction and guidance of the supervisor or senior staff recommend and develop research programs and strategies to assess program effectiveness; prepare policy proposals that are based on the results of those evaluations.

Serve as a Government Technical Monitor on contracts involving multifamily housing activities, including reviewing contractor's work products, adherence to contractual requirements, initiating/recommending corrective actions, and consulting with the GTR (Government Technical Representative) associated with the contract.

Review and analyze legislative proposals based on the Department's overall goals and program needs to ensure that there is no negative impact of such legislation on existing multifamily housing policies or legislation. Develop legislative proposals and coordinate their development by program offices.

• Provide comprehensive office administrative assistance to the manager and subordinate supervisor.
• Screen all correspondence addressed to the manager and staff.
• Maintain records and files in accordance with the local Functional Filing System.
• Provide advice and guidance to the subordinate supervisors in following procedures for preparation of reports, studies and correspondence.
• Assist subordinate supervisors and their own clerical staff in personnel liaison work to include providing orientation and training on proper personnel administrative procedures.
• Perform office automation duties using software applications such as office automation, to track data, compose correspondence, and to enter and certify time.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as an Administrative Specialist, performing administrative and analytic support functions for the Mitigation Division Director.

Typical assignments include:

• Overseeing document/correspondence management and storage systems, including preparing, routing, reviewing, and editing correspondence, transmitting and receiving documents and messages electronically, and conducting quality review of documents.
• Supporting the review and development of memos, letters, and presentations, including compiling and preparing various reports.
• Serving as the Division's Action Officer, identifying, routing, and following up on tasks and actions to ensure adequate and timely follow up by required parties.
• Maintaining leadership calendars, including setting up meetings/meeting venues (virtual and in-person), coordinating agenda development, and obtaining read-ahead materials.
• Serving as the Division's liaison to the finance and training teams, representing interests and reporting action items back to management, including assisting in monitoring the division's budget projections.
• Assisting in a variety of tasks related to personnel management and administrative support for divisional operations, to include supporting special projects as assigned.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

What will I do in this position if hired?
In this position, you will serve as an Administrative Specialist, performing administrative and analytic support functions for the Mitigation Division Director.

Typical assignments include:

• Overseeing document/correspondence management and storage systems, including preparing, routing, reviewing, and editing correspondence, transmitting, and receiving documents and messages electronically, and conducting quality review of documents.
• Supporting the review and development of memos, letters, and presentations, including compiling, and preparing various reports.
• Serving as the Division's Action Officer, identifying, routing, and following up on tasks and actions to ensure adequate and timely follow up by required parties.
• Maintaining leadership calendars, including setting up meetings/meeting venues (virtual and in-person), coordinating agenda development, and obtaining read-ahead materials.
• Serving as the Division's liaison to the finance and training teams, representing interests and reporting action items back to management, including assisting in monitoring the division's budget projections.
• Assisting in a variety of tasks related to personnel management and administrative support for divisional operations, to include supporting special projects as assigned.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

• You will serve as a Contract Specialist assigned to the Contracts Directorate of the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR).
• You will assist the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) in providing business advice to the customer in formulating acquisition strategies from requirements definition through the life of the system.
• You will perform all pre-award and post-award functions, using a wide range of complex contracting methods and complex and hybrid contract types.
• You will assist in the preparation and maintenance of acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts, and related schedules. Assists in the preparation of statements of work.
• You will prepare determinations and findings, solicitation documents, and the contractual vehicle.

• You will be responsible for analyzing current and proposed directives for conformance to style guides, clarity, and duplication or conflict with other issuances.
• You will establish proper filing procedures, ensuring accurate, up to date files, and proper records disposal is accomplished in accordance with policy.
• You will be responsible for administer the Management Internal Controls (MIC) Program, insuring that required risk assessments are completed, and vulnerabilities identified are mitigated and/or eliminated.
• You will identify solutions to problems and suggest alternate courses of action to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and ensure mission accomplishment.
• You will conduct periodic reviews to provide program feedback, provide updates and explore improvement strategies.
• You will gather and review information, reconciles data, and devises new modified methods to analyze findings and provide management advice and assistance in solving program problems.
• You will prepare documentation and initiates above program updates as required. Interprets regulations and directives, recommends revisions and/or adaptations.
• You will performing periodic review of current instructions to determine if updates are needed and administering the update process.

• You will plan and accomplish routine as well as non-routine administrative procedural work of the office and coordinate a wide variety of office administrative requirements.
• You will act as a liaison between the CO and XO, as well as staff personnel by providing accurate, timely advice on procedures and local policies.
• You will receive and screen all incoming telephone calls for proper channeling.
• You will exercise discretion and judgment in responding to requests for information from individuals of higher commands, including Flag/General Officers, contractors, prominent high ranking officials and their subordinates.
• You will receive visitors to the executive suite, including those from high-ranking Military Officers, from many agencies of the U.S. Government and representatives from private industry.
• You will collect, review, and process incoming mail, initiating replies to correspondence not requiring special handling by the CO and/or XO or by other office personnel.
• You will call your supervisor’s attention to material determined to be of interest or importance and attaches any available previous correspondence or reference material to facilitate final action.
• You will independently maintain the CO and XO’s calendars reflecting their appointments, conferences, and travel.
• You will make necessary arrangements, in collaboration with the Finance Manager for the CO and/or XO’s travel, transportation, schedule of visits, and hotel reservations.
• You will serve as a subject matter expert on the Defense Travel System (DTS).
• You will take action to provide consistency and continuity in the application of administrative and procedural policies, processes, and procedures in the Command’s office.
• You will assemble and compile data and material as needed by the CO and/or XO.
• You will establish and maintain office files (e.g., general office correspondence, periodic and special reports, congressional correspondence, other manuals, budgetary data, leadership and internal staff rosters, etc.).
• You will prepare and maintain personnel records, correspondence, and reports pertaining to military personnel matters as it directly relates to the CO and/or XO.
• You will actively participate in the planning and execution of all special command events including Change of Command Ceremonies, Command Quarters, Awards presentations, and high-level personnel and dignitary visits.

• You will analyze past and current Employee Relations functional data and proposes strategies to address and improve areas of responsibility.
• You will research and analyze administrative case law to develop defensible solutions to problems that are less well defined and where precedential cases and guidelines are not always directly applicable.
• You will advise leaders on establishing performance plans, developing critical elements, evaluating employees during the appraisal process; and addressing employee performance issues.
• You will provide management advisory services in coaching, counseling, and recognizing top performers and taking appropriate actions on performance issues.
• You will develop and conduct initial/refresher training sessions covering a variety of Employee Relations topics for both employees and supervisors across the enterprise.
• You will assist in audits, assessments and assist visits, as required, providing requested documentation and data, responding to inquiries, providing administrative support as necessary and taking corrective action as required.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Performs budget administration functions.
• Monitors, reviews, and checks requests for allotment of funds from approved operation budgets.
• The incumbent utilizes knowledge of financial management policies, guidelines, and best practices to provide overall budgeting and financial management for the service.
• Incumbent independently prepares and maintains the annual budget plan for all service control points.
• Through analysis of program goals, priorities, current resources and program data, the incumbent makes recommendations regarding the need for additional budgetary resources, contracts, and equipment.
• Responsible for coordinating and facilitating the function of all services, clinical and administrative, which interface with the service.
• The incumbent serves as the primary point of contact (POC) to these services and makes decisions regarding programs and projects as they relate to these areas.
• Plans, develops, and executes assigned clinical service administrative management program needs.
• Oversees a variety of functions that includes incoming/outgoing correspondence, records management, publications/forms management, administrative standard operating procedures, administrative internal controls, and organizational files management.
• Assures that internal systems and procedures for carrying out the clinical service organization's administrative functions meet the requirements of balancing costs, benefits, productivity, and effectiveness.
• Serves as Action Officer between the Human Resource Management Office and the organization pertaining to all aspects of personnel management, reorganization/realignment, organization structuring, position management, and manpower utilization.
• Analyzes mission, management objectives and organizational goals, to determine current and projected personnel needs and potential placement issues.
• Provides advice and assistance to management in such areas as; recruitment initiatives to replace loss of skilled employees, recruitment and hire lag problems, mission or workload expansion, change or decrease, merit promotion requirements/procedures, requirements and procedures to determine employee placements and to effect a variety of placement actions such as reassignments, reduction-in-force, realignments, non-competitive promotions, and details.
• Conducts a variety of administrative information flow studies, administrative work processes reviews, procedural reviews, improvement studies, etc. to provide management with recommendations for insuring optimum utilization of available resources.
• Manages the organization Training program, assuring all employees are in full compliance with all mandatory training requirements.
• Serves in the capacity of Contracting Officer Representative (COR).
• Develops initial acquisition documents; writes and defends the requests for funds and conducts all aspects of the contracting process from beginning to end; including market research, statements of work (SOW).
• The incumbent draws upon knowledge of contracting and acquisition procedures to draft and/or review contract proposals and agreements to assure accurate budgetary, personnel and administrative arrangements.
• Provides advice to management and staff on contracting and procurement policies and issues.
• Functions in the capacity of Agency Government Purchase Card (GPC) holder.
• Assigns work to staff and provides technical and policy direction to their efforts.
• Reviews completed work of the staff and provides feedback to encourage top performance to enhance an atmosphere of teamwork in the Office.
• Plans training and development with subordinate employees to assure they acquire and maintain both technical competencies in their fields and cross training in related fields.
• Evaluates the work performance of subordinate staff members and recommends appropriate awards to enhance effective performance or takes action to deal with inadequate performance, through counseling, training, coaching and other means.
• Is responsible for equal opportunity for all employees supervised, ensuring fair and equitable practices in the selection of employees for training, promotions, awards and recognition, and for other career development opportunities.
• Tracks and processes action items, Veteran complaints/compliments, and reviews responses sent to Executive Leadership Team.

Major Duties Include:

• The incumbent provides overall administrative management for the P&LM Service. This includes interpreting administrative policies, developing and defining administrative requirements, providing advice on administrative systems and preparing administrative paperwork.
• Works closely with the P&LM Service leadership to collect and assemble data in support of Quality Improvement (QI) activities within the service.
• Incumbent is responsible for tracking training needs of P&LM Service staff to ensure compliance with VA, CAP, JC and other regulatory agencies (e.g., VORP, OSHA, OIG, FDA).

• You will serve as an action officer to major Workforce Relations and Compensation (WRAC) division programs, including Employee Relations and Labor Relations.
• You will provide technical advice and operational guidance in WRAC program areas and participate in the development, execution, evaluation and oversight of WRAC programs.
• You will plan and carry out projects or portions of broader assignments to resolve complex tasking at the headquarters level, and analyze issues/problems and develop recommendations and solutions for implementation.
• You will develop, update and interpret WRAC policies and standard processes, and facilitate communication with Commands and subordinate organizations and other Federal agencies on matters associated with WRAC programs.
• You will monitor and analyze data for significant anomalies and trends, including raw data, analysis, findings, conclusions and recommendations for strategic solutions, interventions and expanding best practices.
• You will provide reports, studies and briefings on WRAC programs in general.

• Directly assists the commander or senior ART in the management of all administrative support program
  functions.
• Serves as the resident subject matter expert for all mandated administrative support programs.
• Serves as a unit liaison to the offices of program managers.
• Performs other clerical and administrative work in support of the office/organization.

• Conduct sensitive file reviews with numerous Federal, state and local agencies and preparing case file records and related documents to be routed to other offices.
• Search for missing files/records and placing loose documents into appropriate case files.
• Perform general mail handling and distribution including sorting, opening, date stamping, classifying, processing, and routing.
• Prepare, maintain, and submit statistical and required reports to supervisor.
• Use computer record systems to search, create and update information.

• You will administer and oversee multiple Echelon 2 level military and/or civilian programs within OJAG/NLSC and provides subject matter expertise to program leads within the Department of Navy DESCP.
• You will assist with gathering the input required to update and maintain all administrative program requirements.
• You will be responsible for managing the mail program across the DoN DESCP.
• You will serve as DESCP Records Manager/Division Liaison responsible for insuring record keeping creation, retention and archiving of DESCP Privacy Act compliance and permanent records.

• You will provide SME level expertise on-site, worldwide, to execute and maintain field office identity activity operations.
• You will utilize identity activities subject matter expertise to ensure non-standard biometric data obtained from field elements is processed, submitted, and ingested into US government authoritative biometrics databases.
• You will utilize NCIS internal and external intelligence community databases to assess NCIS field office investigations and operations to identify gaps in identity activity operations and opportunities.
• You will develop operational planning documentation in coordination with NCIS field office personnel to initiate identity activity operations.
• You will Coordinate and liaises with DON, Department of Defense (DoD), US government inter-agency and foreign government biometrics organizations to develop and/or revise business rules.
• You will engage with US government and international biometrics community by attending meetings, symposiums, and trainings to ensure NCIS remains at the cutting edge of biometrics and identity activities capabilities.
• You will independently coordinate, collaborate, and brief NCIS leadership, representatives from other US law enforcement and intelligence community partners, military combatant commands, and foreign law enforcement/intelligence community partners.
• You will present written products and briefings to executive level audiences and leaders related to NCIS identity intelligence analysis.