Total 13 Administrative / Clerical job vacancies in Stennis Space Center, Mississippi

Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Examines, certifies and audit vouchers submitted for payment, while assessing compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Establishes and maintains internal controls systems with a special emphasis on the operational areas identified as having a high risk of fraud, waste, and abuse.
• Ability to communicate either by phone or correspondence with veterans, fiduciary, other offices with inquiry results.
• Prepares fiscal, administrative, and other statistical reports as deemed appropriate and/or as required and serves on such other projects as directed.
• Responds to inquiries from Congressional Offices, Regional Counsel, and Office of Inspector General.
• Must have a thorough understanding of the various benefit programs and the payment procedures and regulations applicable to each program administered by the Department.
• Independently performs reviews for accuracy and consistency of data such as audits, debts, and reimbursement.
• Ensures that recurring reports are accurately complied and completed on time.
• Provides technical advice to all Regional Office employees on complex and unusual benefit award adjustments, special payment issues, and accounts receivable actions on the applicable computer applications.
• Ability to use specific VA computer applications, in additions to Microsoft Excel, Word and other electronic database applications.
• Performs accounting reviews and payment function checks for discrepancies and advises management with proposes plans to prevent future unassociated funds situations.
• Provides administration support to management staff for personnel management, budget administration, procurement, and other financial related activities.
• Serve as subject matter expert in all areas of the Financial Operations section.
• Oversee the work of the Financial Administrative Technician and ensures appropriate separations of duties are in place and the financial integrity of the regional office is maintain and upheld.
• Develops procedures and coordinates activities across functional lines with other divisions, Regional Offices, service organization, and with other government departments or agencies.
• Responsible for planning, organizing, assigning, and reviewing the work performed within the Operations area.
• Must be well versed in all facets of the financial and general operating procedures for the Regional Office, which requires substantial technical and managerial expertise.
• Serves as a Certifying Official authorizing all financial transactions, adjustments, and collections.
• Ability to conduct the most detailed audits and analysis.
• Skilled in completing oral and written presentations that are clear, concise, and logical.

Position responsibilities include:

• Perform basic account maintenance procedures to ensure files, logs, and reports are complete.
• Ensure adequate stock and operating supplies are maintained.
• Operate computer systems to input or correct data, and produce documents, reports, shelf labels and signs.
• Verify receipts against invoices.

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• Coordinate and provide mail services for the command and branch medical clinics.
• Plan the day-to-day operations of mailroom.
• Make recommendations for changes in work to improve services rendered.
• Route incoming mail.
• Sort outgoing mail into a variety of specialized categories such as first class, registered, etc.
• Maintain an official serial log for retrieval and location of all outgoing correspondence.
• Operate a mail pickup truck to pick-up and distribute mail and mail matter of assorted size and weight between various buildings.

• Organize programs to support operational requirements.
• Monitor projects for administrative errors.
• Enforce organizational practices.
• Review correspondence prior to submission.
• Provide technical guidance on administrative activities.
• Assemble resources for organizational training events.
• Update policies applicable to the organization.
• Utilize various automation programs simultaneously.

• Directly assists the commander or senior ART in the management of all administrative support program functions.
• Serves as the resident subject matter expert for all mandated administrative support programs.
• Serves as a unit liaison to the offices of program managers.
• Performs other clerical and administrative work in support of the office/organization.

• Perform a wide variety of filing and records keeping, updating manuals on policy and directives, reporting and informational duties.
• Provide information and guidance to staff on procedures, forms, and documentation required to support budget estimates and requests.
• Serve as Administrative Coordinator for internal Civilian Personnel Actions.
• Use basic and advanced office automation program functions to perform management and/or program support assignments.
• Review all incoming and outgoing mail for the organization, sorting, distributing and ensuring completing and timeframe.

• You will advise others based on your extensive knowledge of Navy Working Capital Fund accounting processes. (NOTE: working capital fund environment = NT-5 having experience and NT-6 expert level experience.)
• You will independently plan and conduct a variety of assignments based on your knowledge of professional concepts, functional program characteristics, and assignments.
• You will direct other personnel, resolve conflicts, and coordinate system support personnel.
• You will collaborate with other senior personnel to adopt common practices and reporting methods, improve processes and services by developing new products/services or modifying existing processes and services.
• You will develop competencies in personnel through coaching or mentoring, recognize achievements, anticipate/manage conflicts constructively, and address formal/informal complaints.
• You will apply policies, programs, and procedures related to employee relations, safety, health including EEO, diversity, CEAP program, Federal Health and Safety Standards, timekeeping and travel.
• You will interpret policy and regulatory requirements to recommend senior leaders (within the organization) to resolve issues that may be controversial in nature with major impacts or repercussions across the organization.
• You will recognize and diagnose problems, develop alternative solutions, and act decisively including uncertain situations.

• Oversee agreements to ensure financial plans are established and billings are prepared.
• Analyze information concerning costs, personnel, budgets, equipment, and facility services.
• Recommend improvements in accountability procedures and systems to management.
• Assist with coordinating the inspection of facilities to evaluate compliance with safety and health policies.

• You will be the liaison between the Department and the Command’s Property Management Office (Code 107) and NSWCCD Purchase Card Agency Program Coordinator (APC).
• You will mentor personnel, support knowledge transfer and professional growth.
• You will support Business Operations Manager with creation of policies and processes.
• You will direct, plan and review the work of the Property Branch.
• You will ensure proper record management of all OandMS and GE records in ERP.
• You will manage day-to-day OandMS requirements (receipt, acceptance and issuance, storage and consumption) and GE processes (movement, asset tagging, DRMO, certifications, etc.).
• You will ensure staff complete training requirements and maintain certifications.
• You will be responsible for managing and distributing the workload for all Property Branch personnel.

• You will serve as a Contracting Officer Representative (COR) responsible for contract administration, policy compliance, oversight and execution of contractual technical tasking.
• You will coordinate, communicate, integrate, and is accountable for the overall success of the program by ensuring alignment with critical agency priorities and policies.
• You will manage the review and approval of tasking to contractors working with program managers to manage and participate in contractor’s performance reviews.
• You will be responsible for product and service selections, prioritizing, evaluating and monitoring, cost schedule management, risk management, quality management and resource allocations.
• You will be responsible for ensuring the work efforts achieve the outcome specified within the agency's business strategy, including appropriate strategic, life cycle management and capital IT investment plans.
• You will prepare statements of work, acquisition plans, acquisition strategies, requests for proposals, contract data requirement lists, justifications/approvals, and procurement requests.
• You will be responsible for providing project tracking and monitoring for technical projects.
• You will be responsible as a Contracting Officer Representative to perform contract surveillance and contractor performance assessments.
• You will be required to work directly with government, academia and industry to understand contract requirements and potential issues.
• You will require experience managing Navy contracts and systems- Wide Area Workflow (WAWF), Contractor Performance Assessments Reports (CPARS), Enterprise Resource Program (ERP), and Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) tools.
• You will require advanced knowledge of contract types, terms and conditions, compliance policy, oversight, and execution of contracts.

Duties of this position include:

• Performs duties related to the receipt, intake, scanning, indexing, quality control, destruction, and transfer of health and administrative information.
• Confirms record integrity and reviews the image quality.
• Utilizes a computer to perform a wide variety of record keeping, correspondence, and tracking operations and performs timely filing, retrieval, and clerical duties associated with the retention, maintenance, disposition, guardianship and control of health records in both terminal digit and alphabetic filing system.
• Recalls records when necessary and returns them to correct location after purpose has been accomplished.
• Scans various health information documents.
• Reviews documents for appropriate scanning criteria and ensures that all necessary health/administrative information meeting the criteria.
• Retrieves records using a combination of computer-based patient treatment history and historical record transactions to deduce locations of hard-to-find records.
• Processes health record transfer requests.
• Ensures sensitive health records are maintained in an extra-secure manner and available only to requestors in the scope of their official duties.
• Maintains confidentiality of all electronic records and paper components of the health record.
• Follows appropriate procedures when mailing and destroying health information in paper or electronic format.
• Communicates daily with other administrative and clinical staff members to locate/obtain health records.
• Explains health record documents to medical center staff and assists them in understanding how to recognize which nomenclature and indexing term to use.
• Conducts extensive searches for health records when initial searches have been unsuccessful.
• Maintain accessible records and provide efficient service for direct and indirect patient care by managing the receipt and scanning of health documents in a timely and accurate manner.

The following are intended to provide generalized examples of major duties and responsibilities of this position.

• Perform receptionist duties by greeting visitors or clients in person and on the telephone, answering routine questions, and directing visitors or callers to the appropriate person or department.
• Prepare reports, form letters, notices, and other correspondence using templates and forms. Assist with preparing correspondence and documents, including typing, keyboarding, formatting, and generating documents from templates, notes, and dictation. Maintain correspondence control records.
• Perform data entry functions. Generate standard reports from databases and computerized systems. Track statistics and data.
• Receive, prioritize, and route all incoming materials from within the court to appropriate individuals in the office. Receive, screen, and route incoming and outgoing mail to appropriate persons or offices; process mail requiring special handling; and provide outside messenger service.
• Maintain, update, and track paper and electronic files; make copies and deliver documents to staff. Assist records and reproduction staff with scanning, copying, filing, stamping, and locating files and documents.
• Schedule appointments, arrange meetings, maintain staff calendars, and other assigned duties.

The incumbent, as a Cemetery Administration Specialist, will monitor committal services for compliance with the National Cemetery Administration (NCA) standards pertaining to the mission to "honor Veterans and their families with final resting places in National Shrines and with lasting tributes that commemorate their service and sacrifices to our Nation."

The incumbent represents the cemetery and the entire NCA at committal services at the National Cemetery, and at outreach events, answering questions and providing information to Veterans regarding memorial benefits. The representative is also versed in providing information to eligible family members of Veterans regarding any memorial benefits they may be eligible to receive. The incumbent of this position performs a wide variety of administrative duties in support of cemetery operations. The specific focus is on working together with the Administrative Officer and/or Cemetery Administrator in planning and administering the cemetery operations. Additional duties include, but are not limited to: Investigation and determination of eligibility for interment activities of the National Cemetery; Performs clerical office automation and typing duties in support of the administration (which requires the use of computer software (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, etc.) and interment activities and is responsible for ensuring required reports are completed accurately and timely; Acts as clearing point for problems that arise such as: Congressional or other inquiries on eligibility for burial; continuation of reserved gravesites determination of legality and eligibility of widows, widowers and children of eligible service persons and decedents interred in the cemetery; remarried spouse interment with their first spouse, family members requesting burial with parents, children and siblings; and discrepancies in name, service number, dates of service, rank of organization, etc. Performs other duties as assigned.

Performs public outreach as needed.

Work schedule: Required towork Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm. Due to the mission of the National Cemetery, the cemetery cannot be closed for more than 2 consecutive days at any given time. Additionally, when a Federal holiday falls on a Monday or Friday, staff may be required to work on that holiday or a Saturday. All staff is required to work Memorial Day and Veteran's Day each year. Staff will be required to work overtime, weekends, and holidays when necessary to meet the needs of the cemetery. Occasionally staff may be called back to the facility to perform emergency overtime work.

Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Not Available
Telework: Not Available
Remote/Virtual: This is not a virtual or remote position.

Position Description Title/PD#: Cemetery Admin Specialist / PD137070
The full performance level of this position is GS-07.

Relocation Expenses: Not authorized
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required