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Administrative Officer
Drug Enforcement Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in the DEA, Bangkok, Thailand Country Office. This position(s) primary purpose is to provide support and assistance to Host Nation governments in the capacity to build combat international drug trafficking and money laundering, and to ensure that activities are in kept with Host Nation laws and existing agreements.
What You'll Do
- →As an Administrative Officer your typical work assignments may include: Supervises and/or manages administrative, fiscal, and clerical staff within the assigned Foreign Divisional Office, and provides administrative guidance and support to numerous country offices.
- →Develops employee work plans and provides assistance with work related and administrative problems.
- →Implements new policies and methods to improve the flow of work assignments; identifies problems and inefficiencies and makes recommendations to management for resolution.
- →Informs management of personnel assignments, initiates personnel actions, manages professional, administrative, clerical and other positions.
- →Manages employee movement relative to tour renewals and extensions.
- →Oversees the property management to ensure optimum utilization of property.
- →ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION: Length of Tour: Employees are limited to a maximum of five years of service in an overseas assignment.
- →The initial tour of duty for this assignment is 3 (three) years.
- →After the initial tour of duty has been completed, extensions may be granted in one-year increments up to the five-year maximum.
- →Employees who wish to remain on an overseas assignment in excess of the five-year maximum must request a tour extension or renewal before the end of their current assignment.
- →Employees who are approved to extend their overseas assignment beyond the five-year maximum will forfeit the right to return to an office of preference.
- →They will be placed in an appropriate position at a DEA domestic office where a vacancy exists.At the conclusion of an overseas tour, DEA will attempt to return employees to their home location.
- →If such a placement is not possible, employees' office of preference lists will be considered.
- →However, employees are reminded that assignments are determined based on the needs of DEA.
Requirements
- ✓Education requirements do not apply to this vacancy announcement. **K-12 Education: Education of dependents through high school is provided by, or paid for by, the U.S.
- ✓Government as allowable and authorized in accordance with appropriate regulations.
- ✓The Department of State's (DOS) Regional Education Officers from the Office of Overseas Schools determines a school's adequacy level based upon numerous factors.
- ✓All questions and concerns regarding adequacy clarification should be directed to the Regional Education Officers from the DOS Office of Overseas Schools at 202-261-8200 or OverseasSchools@state.gov.
- ✓Do you have a student in your family who benefits from special education services?
- ✓Please contact DEA Family Liaison Officers, information below, to further discuss your student's needs and the post's ability to adequately serve them.
- ✓Detailed education allowance regulations can be found here and FAQs can be found here.
- ✓Note that dependents under the age of 23 enrolled in college are allowed one round trip to overseas locations every 12 months.
- ✓Training Requirements: Selectees for this position must successfully complete five mandatory foreign assignment courses on DEALS: Serving Abroad for Families and Employees (SAFE); Personnel Recovery 1 (PR1); Foreign Orientation Program (FOP); Counter Threat Awareness Training (CTAT), and Promoting International Religious Freedom (PIRF).
- ✓Selectees must also successfully complete Personnel Recovery Emergency Preparedness (PREP), a two week in-person course conducted by the DEA Office of Training in Stafford, Virginia and West Virginia.
- ✓Selectee's family members 18 years of age and older are also required to take CTAT, and may have additional training requirements if they intend to work at an embassy abroad.
- ✓More information regarding training requirements can be found here.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 9e5a49cb-0ea6-4134-bc5f-ec60a028b5dd
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