Program Support Assistant

These position are located in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Field Organization, Southeast Area in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, FL.

In these positions, you will serve as a personal assistant to the Research Leader (RL) and other professional staff, coordinating a wide variety of administrative and clerical tasks essential to the program administration of the Management Unit.

Duties

• Providing technical and procedural advice to management and staff on administrative processes to management.
• Planning and organizing the work by coordinating priorities and commitments of the office in order to serve as liaison, prepare background material, and anticipate information requests.
• Providing training and advisory services to the Research Leader (RL) and professional staff in all program administrative procedures ensuring compliance with regulations.
• Preparing, maintaining, and transmitting Time and Attendance reports.
• Preparing travel requests and vouchers for foreign and domestic travel for office staff.
• Providing problem resolution in the areas of budget and accounting, agreements, travel, human resources, files management, correspondence preparation and control, time and attendance, office automation systems, and purchasing/procurement.

Requirements