General Clerk I

Description:

This is an external pipeline posting. The successful candidates will get an active offer, be taken through the federal security clearance process, and then may wait for a vacant position to start work.

As a General Clerk I, you will follow clearly detailed and specific procedures while completing several repetitive clerical steps. You'll perform them in a regular or slightly varied sequence, such as coding and filing documents in an extensive alphabetical file. Your duties involve simple postings to individual accounts, opening mail, calculating and posting charges to departmental accounts, operating basic office equipment (photo copier, fax, multi-line phone/voicemail systems, mailing machines, computers). Little or no subject-matter knowledge is required, but you will use your own judgment in choosing the proper procedure for each task.

Responsibilities
 

• For petition data received electronically, you will review the data in the electronic record for accuracy and integrity and make any corrections.
• For petition data received in paper form, you will create an electronic case file, appropriately collated, annotated, and indexed.
• You will enter additional information as needed and verify date(s), visa classification, and other critical fields.
• For as long as required, you will create a physical case folder appropriately labeled and indexed.
• You will deconstruct some petitions received, scan them into the correct visa processing system, collate, and either return, destroy or file those petitions.
• Accomplishes all tasks as appropriately assigned or requested.
   

Qualifications
 

• High School Diploma or G.E.D.
• 1-2 years of relevant administrative experience.
• Valid driver's license.
• You must successfully complete a criminal and credit background check as well as obtain a SECRET-level federal security clearance.
• You must pass a computer-based digital literacy skills test with a minimum score of 85% in order to be considered for this position.