Student Trainee (Clerk/Office Automation)

US-Executive-Office-For-U.S.-Attorneys-and-the-Office-of-the-U.S.-Attorneys-; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Attorneys' Offices in Indiana are offering an internship opportunity at the GS-04 level. Applicants must be students and U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and must pass a background investigation. A Pathways Participant Agreement is required for all interns.

The position requires at least one year of general office experience or two years of education beyond high school, with a typing test at 40 wpm. Successful candidates will join a federal office environment in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Qualifications

• Typing: 40 words per minute on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors.
• Education: at least two years of education above high school in an accredited program.
• Experience: at least one year of general office experience as defined by the agency.

Skills

Typing speed 40 wpm

Education

Two years of education above high school

Job description

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao

To be eligible for this internship ALL of the following requirements must be met:

• Student Status: Definition of a student - applicant must be enrolled or accepted for enrollment in an accredited high school, technical or vocational school, two-year or four-year college or university, graduate/professional school, or certificate program equivalent to at least one academic year of full-time study (go to http://www.ed.gov/accreditation to verify accreditation status) pursuant to 5 CFR 362. You must be considered in good academic standings by the school. Individuals must be taking at least a half-time academic, vocational, or technical course load leading to a degree, diploma, or certificate. "Half-time" is defined by the school in which the student is enrolled.
• Citizenship: Student Interns must be United States citizens or owe permanent allegiance to the United States. (Currently, natives of American Samoa, Swains Island and certain inhabitants of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are the only groups that owe permanent allegiance to the United States.)Background Investigation: You must successfully complete a background investigation to determine your suitability for Federal employment.
• Pathways Participant Agreement: All interns are required to sign the Participant Agreement.
• Qualification requirements as outlined below.

To be eligible at the GS-4 level you must have at least one (1) year of general office experience. General Experience is defined as progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work that indicates ability to acquire the particular knowledge and skills needed to perform the duties of the position to be filled.

Examples of general experience include filing material in alphabetical, numerical, or chronological order; Operating a copying machine; Collating and stapling materials; Producing a variety of written documents utilizing varied and advanced word processing software functions; securing statistical or other information from files and related sources.

OR

Education: At least two (2) years of education above the high school level. This education must be obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college, or university. (One year of full-time academic study is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university, or at least 20 hours of classroom instruction per week for approximately 36 weeks in a business, secretarial, or technical school.)

OR

Combination of Experience and Education: Combinations of successfully completed post high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. In order to qualify based on a combination, college education must be in excess of 60 semester hours or beyond the second year.

To be qualified, you must type at least 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors. (A typing test may later be required.)