Staff Specialist (Driver)

Summary

As a Staff Specialist (Driver) at the GS-0301-9, you will be part of the Executive Secretariat, Office of the Chair, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. If selected, you will be responsible for maintaining recordkeeping, and documenting and retrieving information on all matters requiring formal action by the Commission as a policy-making body. The incumbent will also serve as the driver for the Chair and other agency executives.

Duties

• Coordinates the processing, tracking, and circulation of Commission decision documents, including litigation recommendations, notation votes, subpoenas, and “Notice and Hold” materials.
• Provides official driving services for the Chair and senior officials, including local and out-of-town travel, and securely transports sensitive documents to high-level government offices.
• Supports Commission meetings by preparing agendas, gathering materials, setting up meeting spaces, attending sessions, recording actions, and preparing required Federal Register notices.
• Develops and finalizes the Commission’s annual Government in the Sunshine Act report, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely submission.
• Prepares written summaries of Commission actions, distributes assignments, conducts follow-up on tasking, and ensures senior officials receive accurate and timely information.
• Manages correspondence control for the Chair, including receiving, analyzing, assigning, tracking, and editing materials, and preparing status reports for leadership.
• Designs and maintains records and retrieval systems for Commission decisions, policies, correspondence, and meeting materials, ensuring compliance with Sunshine Act and FOIA requirements.

Qualifications

For the GS-9: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 level in the Federal service that demonstrates all of the following: - Substantial experience operating as a driver for senior officials or executives, including expert-level familiarity with the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, its traffic patterns, federal facilities, and high-security routes. - Experience protecting sensitive and confidential information through the management of highly detailed and frequently changing executive schedules, travel logistics, itineraries, and coordination with protective services, security details, or protocol offices. Experience must include applying operational security principles, discreet communication practices, and threat-avoidance or defensive driving techniques. - Recordkeeping experience (vehicle logs, maintenance scheduling, mileage, documentation). - Experience coordinating, reviewing, and processing official documents, correspondence, reports, and decision materials for senior leadership, including preparing summaries, meeting materials, agendas, and written communications. - Skill in maintaining organized manual or automated tracking, filing, and retrieval systems; using databases to input, track, update, or retrieve workflow or correspondence information; and ensuring materials are complete, accurate, and procedurally compliant. - Experience supporting high-level meetings, hearings, or briefings through scheduling and logistical coordination, documenting outcomes, and managing associated records and workflow. OR Successful completion of a master's or equivalent graduate degree directly related to the position, OR Two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, OR LL.B. or J.D., if related, OR A combination of education and experience. Applicants must meet all eligibility requirements within 30 days of the closing date specified in the vacancy announcement. 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.

Education

Foreign Education: If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

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. 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 at least 3 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.