EXECUTIVE SUPPORT SPECIALIST

You will serve as a EXECUTIVE SUPPORT SPECIALIST in the OFFICE of the COMMANDER (J00) of COMMANDER US FORCES JAPAN . ACCESS TO MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE IN JAPAN IS EXTREMELY LIMITED. Please see Additional Information section below.

Major duties

• You will initiate, plan, and study management issues, including overall unit achievements regarding the commander's initiatives.
• You will identify and analyze key issues, develop strategies, and advise senior leadership on recommended courses of action on a broad variety of topics related to administrative functions.
• You will independently make extensive domestic and international travel arrangements in Japanese and English, such as scheduling transportation, making reservations, preparing travel orders and vouchers based on general travel intentions.
• You will independently accomplish planning for briefings, staff meetings, conference calls, etc. and ensure all arrangements are coordinated with appropriate offices and personnel.
• You will routinely attend functions that are required for quality control and verification that events are properly executed, and appropriate customs and courtesies are observed.
• You will establish and maintain communication with relevant organizations to gather critical information for both special and recurring initiatives.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Analyzing, evaluating, coordinating administrative/executive support services to ensure program operations run timely, efficiently, successfully AND establishing criteria to measure and/or predict the attainment of program or organizational goals and objectives. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0300/miscellaneous-administration-and-program-series-0301/ 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

In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience: I have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. OR I have successfully completed three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. OR I have successfully completed an LL.M. degree that is related to the position being filled. https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/students/federal-occupations-by-college-major/ OR I have a combination of experience and education as described above that equates to one year of experience. My percentage of the required education plus my percentage of the required experience equal one hundred percent. A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information.