Job Listing
Administrative Specialist
Drug Enforcement Administration · Posted 56 days ago
Hybrid Cartagena $76K – $99K Apply by Aug 17, 2026 Miscellaneous Administration And Program ENTJESFJESTJISTJ
Apply for this job → About the Role
This position is located in the DEA, Cartagena, Colombia Resident Office. This position(s) primary purpose is to serves as Administrative Specialist to assist the Administrative Officer (AO) with the responsibility for the activities of the foreign Division's Administrative Support Unit and, in the AO's absence, under a delegated authority possesses the same authority and prerogatives.
What You'll Do
- →As an Administrative Specialist your typical work assignments may include: Assists the AO to ensure that the work of the section/unit employees complies with legal and regulatory requirements and meets agency or customer needs.
- →Makes recommendations for changes in priorities and recommends action to implement such changes.
- →Coordinates with other organization managers and customers as appropriate.
- →Identifies requirements and provides recommendations to initiate requests for additional resources including personnel, overtime, equipment, supplies, and space to ensure success in meeting goals and objectives.
- →Provides advice and recommendations to AO/supervisor of significant issues and problems related to work accomplishment.
- →Assists in providing administrative guidance to administrative support staff in numerous country offices.
- →Serves as a secondary action officer between the HQ Human Resource Division and the organization pertaining to all aspects of personnel management, reorganization/realignment, organization structuring, position management, and manpower utilization.
- →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.
Requirements
- ✓Education requirements do not apply to this vacancy announcement.
Personality Fit
Job ID: da98b4e7-6faf-4e18-a54e-742b830e3854
Posted via USAJobs