This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/479537200. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
If you have a passion for agriculture and finance, then the Farm Credit Administration may be the place for you. As an FCA bank examiner, you can help keep agriculture strong by working to ensure a dependable source of affordable credit for agriculture and rural America. Headquartered near our nation’s capital, FCA is a small, independent Federal agency. We regulate and examine the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of financial institutions providing credit and related services to farmers, ranchers, and their cooperatives. For the past several years, the Best Places to Work Survey has ranked FCA among the top 10 places to work among small agencies in the Federal Government. For more information about our internships, see Summer Internships for Associate FCA Bank Examiners.
NOTE: THIS IS A PUBLIC NOTICE. QUALIFIED APPLICANTS INTERESTED IN BEING CONSIDERED FOR THIS JOB FAIR VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT MUST ACCEPT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING JOB FAIR EVENTS INVITATIONS LISTED BELOW:
COLLEGE/ UNIVERSITY | LOCATION | DATE |
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Florida A&M University | Tallahassee, FL | 09/27/17 |
California State Polytechnic University | San Luis Obispo | 09/27/17* |
Texas A&M University | College Station, TX | 09/28/17 |
University of Wisconsin, River Falls | River Falls, WI | 10/10/17** |
Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX | 10/11/17 |
University of California, Davis | Davis, CA | 10/19/17* |
*NOTE CHANGE OF DATE (one day only)
**NOTE CHANGE OF DATE/PLACE: Interested candidates are encouraged to attend networking events on October 10, 2017, at the the AgBusiness Club social (6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) and the Career Services social (5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.). FCA will not be able to attend the career fair on October 11th.
Please contact the Career Services center at these universities for more information about on-campus events in which FCA will be participating.
Learn more about this agency09/14/2017 to 09/25/2017
$16.63 - $19.98 per hour
VH 32 - 34
25% or less - You may be required to travel up to 20 nights (4 weeks) over the summer.
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Internships
Full-time - Full Time
34
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VA-17-0298 - Intern
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Candidates selected to participate as an Associate FCA Examiner (Intern) will receive on-the-job exposure to credit examination of a financial institution, participate in a comprehensive group project finalizing a National Financial Institution Examination Activity’s results, and interact with co-workers and Farm Credit System personnel. Interns will:
As a Pathways Intern, you must meet and comply with PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
Failure to meet or maintain qualifications or program requirements or failure to provide required documentation will result in termination of your appointment.
You may be non-competitively converted to a term, career-conditional or career appointment, within 120 days following successful completion of all of your educational and work experience requirements in accordance with 5 CFR 362.204, at the discretion of the Agency. Conversion is not automatic nor guaranteed. If you meet program requirements and are approved for conversion, you will be appointed at the grade level for which you are qualified to a FCA Examiner position, which has promotion potential to the VH-39 (GS-13) grade level.
You must meet STUDENT STATUS REQUIREMENTS to be eligible for this internship opportunity. You must:
If you graduate before May/June 2018 you are not eligible for this Pathways Internship unless you are pursuing further education and provide proof of enrollment or acceptance into a degree or certificate seeking program with your application.
In addition, you must meet EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS to qualify for this internship. Your undergraduate or graduate-level education must be in one of the following major fields of study:
Foreign Education: If you want to use education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the requirements for this position, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by an organization recognized by the US Department of Education.
GRADE LEVELS: In addition to meeting the Student Status and Educational Requirements you qualify at the VH-32 (GS-4 equivalent)grade level if you have completed 1) at least 2 full academic years of post-high school study or 2) an associate's degree.
In addition to meeting the Student Status and Educational Requirements you qualify at the VH-34 (GS-7 equivalent) grade level if you have completed a bachelor's degree and 1) at least one full academic year of graduate level education, or 2) have eligibility under Superior Academic Achievement provisions and meet all other requirements.
You must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements and submit all required supporting documentation by the closing date of this announcement.
Applicants selected will be offered a position in the Associate Examiner Pathways Internship program. After successful completion of the program requirements and based on the FCA's needs, the selectees may be non-competitively converted to a permanent career-conditional position as an Associate FCA Examiner. The permanent career-conditional position offers promotion potential to the grade 39 (GS-13). Service in the FCA Pathways Internship Program confers no right to further employment with FCA in the competitive or excepted service.
All Farm Credit Administration (FCA) employees are subject to the conflict of interest laws and Standards of Ethical Conduct imposed upon all employees of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and may be required to file a Financial Disclosure Report.
FCA’s supplemental ethics regulations restrict certain FCA employees concerning their direct or indirect interests in, or connections with, Farm Credit System institutions. These rules also require all employees to obtain approval for outside employment or business activities. Please contact the HR Office for additional information on these rules.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your application will be reviewed to ensure you meet the eligibility and qualification requirements for this internship position. If you meet the requirements, your application will be forwarded to the hiring manager in unranked order by veterans' preference as follows: 1) preference eligibles with compensable, service-connected disability of 10% or more; 2) all other candidates eligible for 10-point veterans' preference; 3) candidates eligible for 5-point veterans' preference; and 4) candidates not eligible for veterans' preference. This method protects the rights of veterans by placing them ahead of non-preference eligibles. The hiring manager may make selections from the list providing no preference eligible is passed over to select a non-preference eligible unless the requirements of 5 USC 3371(b) or 3318(b) are met.
Please review the Qualifications and Required Documents sections of this announcement to make sure you have provided all required information clearly and with sufficient detail to allow a determination on your qualifications. We will not make assumptions regarding your education. You will not be considered for this position if any part of your application or supporting documentation is incomplete. Falsifying your background, education and/or experience is cause for not hiring you or adverse action after hiring.
Note: Qualified applicants will be contacted immediately following one of the above-mentioned job fair invite dates for consideration. Applicants that are selected from the job fair invite for employment must be prepared to interview within 24-48 hours of the job fair invite date. Qualified applicant’s failure to interview within 24-48 hours of the job fair invite date, will result in loss of consideration for this current vacancy announcement, but may apply for future FCA vacancy announcements.
Please note that if you do not provide all required documents, as specified in this announcement, you may not be considered for this position. The responsibility for demonstrating eligibility and qualifications by the closing date of this announcement rests with the applicant.
1. RESUME: Your resume must clearly state the name and address of the institution you are enrolled, the degree you expect to receive, your major field of study, and the date your degree is expected to be awarded.
2. EDUCATION DOCUMENTS: Education must be from accredited institutions. FCA reserves the right to verify educational information.
3. VETERANS' DOCUMENTATION: If you are claiming veterans' preference, click here. Veterans should submit the Member 4 copy of the DD 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty - or other copy showing the type of discharge/character of service (e.g., Honorable, Under Honorable Conditions, etc.) along with any other required documents.
NOTE: YOU MUST SUBMIT ALL DOCUMENTATION BY 11:59 P.M. EST ON THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
NOTE: If you would like to be considered and are unable to attend one of the job fairs listed above applications will be accepted online. All candidates who wish to be considered must be prepared to interview in person within 48 hours of the job fair cut-off dates listed.
The following instructions outline our application process. You must complete this application process and submit all required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the job fair invite dates listed on this announcement.
Step 1 – Go to the Qualifications and Evaluations tab of this job announcement and review the basic qualification requirements because you may need to customize your resume to ensure it provides all necessary information. Save your resume on your computer for easy access.
Step 2 – Go to the Required Documents section of this job announcement to find out which documents you must submit in order to apply, then save those documents on your computer for easy access.
Step 3 – If you do not already have a USAJOBS account, you must create one. To do so, go to Create New Account. Go to Resumes where you may either use the USAJOBS Resume Builder or upload your own resume (recommended). Acceptable files: Uploaded resumes must be less than 3MB and in one of the following document formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, or Word (DOC or DOCX). Only text-based RTF, PDF, and Word documents will be searchable by recruiters. Image files (GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG) will not be searched.
Step 4 – Go to Saved Documents and upload the Required Documents (e.g. transcripts) stated in the job announcement. Files must be less than 3mb and can be in one of the following formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, or Word (DOC or DOCX). Click Upload. Once a document has been successfully uploaded, it can be viewed or deleted at any time.
Step 5 – Go back to the job announcement page.
Step 6 – Click on the Apply Online button on the right-hand menu of the page and follow the instructions on the next screen. You will be directed to USAJobs where you must select a resume, transcript(s) and DD-214 (veterans only). If you have other documents uploaded to USAJobs, you may select those you wish to submit as well such as a cover letter. After selecting the Required Documents, click Apply for this position now and follow the prompts and answer the online questions.
To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login, select the Application Status link and then select the more information link for this position. The Details page will display the status of your application, the documentation received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent related to this application. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click Update Application in the vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be incomplete.
For online applications, you may check the status of your application for this position at any time by logging onto the USAJOBS 'My Account" tab and clicking on "Application Status." Please notify us if your contact information changes after the closing date of the announcement. Also, note that if you provide an e-mail address that is inaccurate or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam-blocker), you may not receive important communication that could affect your consideration for this position.
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This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/479537200. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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