Clarification from the agency

Current FCC Employees Only

• Perform a wide variety of administrative and technical services for the Chairman's Office, including being responsible for the performance of administrative support functions and associated activity coordination tasks for the Chairman or his advisory staff.  
• Exercise control over the Chairman or his advisory staff's daily calendar; establish priorities; schedule meetings, appointments, and/or conferences; compose non-technical correspondence; and prepare travel arrangements without prior approval based on personal knowledge of the Commissioner or his advisory staff's preferences, priorities, and commitments. 
• Responsible for managing assigned time and attendance.
• Evaluate procedures, determining when changes are necessary, and implementing such changes; managing and improving administrative workflow and office procedures for the Office of the Chairman; and providing training and guidance to lower-level support staff on office work processes and procedures. 
• Serve as the primary point of contact and liaison for congressional correspondence for the Office of the Chairman; prepare responses to letters addressed to the Chairman or his advisory staff; and prepare a variety of material in final form from rough drafts, notes, or oral instructions.
• Assemble and organize agenda item materials received from other Bureaus and Offices through the Commission Secretary prior to the monthly Commission meetings.

Conditions of employment

• FCC Employees Only.
• Suitable for employment as determined by a background investigation.
• Current FCC employees must provide SF-50 verifying grade & status.
• Resume must not exceed two pages and must meet resume format criteria.

In order to be considered for this position, applicants must:

-Currently be employed in the Federal Communications Commission in positions serving under career or career conditional appointments.

ALL FCC EMPLOYEES MUST provide a legible Personnel Action, SF-50, that verifies your status and highest permanently held grade.  If an SF-50 is not submitted, the application will be rated as ineligible. To request a copy of your SF-50 please send an email to PersonnelRecordsRequest@fcc.gov

Qualifications

Interested candidates should be passionate about the ideals of our American republic, committed to upholding the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution, and committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government. Hiring decisions will not be based on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin.

Applicants must meet eligibility and qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.  Current Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.  

GS-11

Specialized Experience:  In order to be deemed as qualified applicants must have a minimum of one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-10 in the Federal service.  For this position, specialized experience includes the following:    

Experience serving in a lead role such as Office Manager, Confidential/Executive Assistant, Secretary or Administrative Assistant in which you were responsible for the administrative and clerical responsibilities of the office performance and/or overseeing a wide range of assignments including:

1) receiving visitors and answering telephone calls from a diverse group of individuals (e.g., congressional staff, representatives of international organizations and/or foreign governments, other high-ranking government and industry officials);

2) researching and compiling information to respond to inquiries either orally or in writing on a wide range of topics from a wide variety of individuals within and outside the organization;

3) maintaining appointment schedules, and arranging conferences, events, and meetings for a high level official (e.g., top agency official, executive, CEO) and their staff;and

4) developing and maintaining filing systems and automated tracking systems, and 5) preparing travel documents for domestic and international travel.

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: 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, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Optional Four Essay Questions

At the time of application, applicants have the option of answering the following four short, free-response essay questions.

1. How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.
2. In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes.
3. How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.
4. How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples, and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position.

Applicants will be required to certify that they are using their own words, and did not use a consultant or AI (such as a large language model [LLM]). The responses to each question cannot exceed 200 words per question.

All applicants will be rated on the extent and quality of experience and education relevant to the duties of the position.  An automated score is administered based on the on-line application process used.  Eligible applicants will receive a numerical rating based on their responses to the job specific questions for this position.

There are several parts to the application process that affect the overall evaluation of your application including:

1. the core questions
2. the vacancy questions
3. supplemental documentation (e.g., DD-214, SF-50, SF-15, transcripts), if applicable; and
4. your resume.

Applicants will be rated ineligible, if they do not respond to job specific questions provide supplemental documents and submit resume.  For more information, please click on Rating Process

Subject matter experts will review your application to determine if you meet the following required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's):

• Skill in oral communication.
• Ability to work effectively with a variety of personnel at all levels, including the highest executive levels, both within and outside the organization.
• Knowledge of applicable computer systems such as Power Point, Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, Access, etc.
• Ability to perform clerical and administrative duties and responsibilities such as coordinating travel arrangements, screening calls and visitors, responding to telephonic and/or written inquiries, scheduling appointments and meetings, etc.

If you are deemed to be qualified by the Subject Matter Experts, your application will be referred to the hiring manager for hiring consideration. Alternatively, if your application is not deemed as qualified by the Subject Matter Experts, your application will not be referred to the hiring manager for hiring consideration.