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Administrative Specialist

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 three (3) 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.

Cartagena, Colombia Resident Office Post (Hardship) Differential: 15% Post (Cost of Living) Allowance: 5% Danger Pay Allowance: 20% Home Leave: Allowed after the initial 24 months incident to tour renewal. Housing Allowances: Housing paid for by U.S. Government, Cartagena is a furnished post. Foreign Language: None Rest & Recuperation: 2 Relocation Incentive: No Educational Allowances**Yes, see below*Post (cost of living) allowance, post (hardship) differential, and danger pay allowance (if applicable to the advertised post) are subject to change. Overseas Transition Preparation: Please contact DEA Family Liaison Officers Kieran Mandato or N'Dorah Z. Walker for Post Reports that detail living conditions for employees and their families at post. Click here for a Prospective Post Priorities Worksheet that can help you consider what is important to you and your family in the foreign PCS decision-making process. Individual and dependents are required to pass a physical examination given by the State Department (details available here ). For more information regarding the foreign PCS process, please see the PCS Foreign Assignment Relocation Handbook and the Foreign Orientation Handbook.