The USDA, Forest Service, TEAMS Enterprise Unit, plans to advertise and fill one or more PFT Program Support Assistant position.  Incumbent will provide technical expertise and clerical support to administrative and/or resource program areas for content analysis and project record assistance.  Incumbent will:

  • Independently complete special research requests.
  • Exchanges and develop information, resolve discrepancies, and make recommendations about conflicting program-related materials.
  • Receive, process, and file a full range of correspondence and reports.
  • Analyze difficult materials by subject matter content, and perform extensive searches of historical records, determining which of several indexes to search, retrieve the data, and also determine which records are appropriate for a project record.
  • Utilize Visual Basics, Microsoft Access, and Word in managing the data.
  • Provide technical expertise to ensure accurate identification and analysis of public concerns within a resource management framework, and consistency and standardization of public comment analysis.
  • Review field material to determine if such material should be consolidated, be assigned new classifications, or be retired.
  • Devise and implement and automated/electronic system for project records, which meets agency and litigation requirements, and allows for quick retrieval of documents.
  • Receive and process documents and reports in accordance with established procedures to meet agency and litigation requirements for both project records and content analysis.
  • Ensure accurate identification and analysis of public concerns based on resource management law, regulation and policy, including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), National Forest Management Act (NFMA), Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and Administrative Procedures Act (APA).
  • Participate in the development and/or implementation of clerical or administrative procedures for application within the organization.

Additional Contacts:

For additional information contact

Patty Beyer, TEAMS PLO Support/Projects Supervisor, at (906) 226-1499, (559) 920-8137, or pbeyer@fs.fed.us. You may also contact Yolanda Schultz, TEAMS Administrative Specialist, at (559) 781-5959 or yschultz@fs.fed.us.

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Submitted by Francisco Loredo