Professional Staff Assistant 1
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**What You Will Do**

The Student Programs Office (SPO) within the Partnerships & Pipeline Office (PPO) is seeking Professional Staff Assistant 1 (Internship Coordinator) to help SPO support the Laboratory's employees, managers, and senior leaders in attracting, developing, and retaining a workforce that delivers solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing our nation and the world. SPO is seeking a motivated, customer service focused, and experienced individual to provide professional business support. The position works with a team of 6 and provides broad support for 2000 students and upwards of 1500 mentors.

The Student Programs Office seeks a proactive professional to provide programmatic support. As Professional Assistant 1 in our office you will:

+ Support intentional outreach efforts with high schools and universities.

+ Create and deliver presentations for interested applicants, current interns, and mentors.

+ Serve as a point of contact for common questions regarding the internship programs.

+ Support internship program evaluation and operations through coordination of surveys, quarterly audits, annual academic reviews, and education update form processing.

+ Support the planning and implementation of the annual student symposium (a poster session for students at the end of summer). Other tasks as assigned.

**What You Need**

**Minimum Job Requirements:**

**Organization and Time Management**

Demonstrated ability to organize, prioritize and follow-through to completion on multiple tasks, often under strict deadlines, with frequent interruptions, and changing priorities in a dynamic and fluid working environment. Experience working with sensitive, personnel related information. Demonstrated record of dependability, availability, attendance, and punctuality.

**Business Systems**

Expert-level knowledge and experience with the Microsoft Office Suite (particularly with Outlook, Excel, Teams, and Word) and Google Workspace. Ability to independently interpret data and information.

**Communication**

Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills while interacting effectively with people of all levels throughout the organization hierarchy and in partnership with internal and external organizations. Grammatical proficiency, formatting, and editing capabilities expected at this level.

**Public Speaking**

Demonstrated experience with developing and delivering presentations to a variety of audiences spanning from high school students to graduate students to group leaders and mentors.

**Personal Leadership**

Demonstrated ability to calmly manage interruptions and changing priorities; to complete assignments with or without established procedures; and be available and dependable. Demonstrated mentoring and teaming skills. Utilization of tact, diplomacy and discretion in dealing with sensitive and in-confidence information.

**Education/Experience:** Position requires a Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of related experience; an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

**Desired Qualifications:**

**LANL Systems and Advanced Software Applications**

Proficiency in multiple Laboratory-wide business systems (e.g., Oracle, Concur, Foreign Travel Systems, Visitor and Guest Agreements, Subcontracts and Ariba, etc.); advanced knowledge of computer software applications (e.g., Microsoft applications (in particular Teams and Excel), WebEx, Google Workspace, Zoom, SharePoint, Adobe applications, etc.).

**Education:** A Bachelor's degree in education, social sciences, humanities.

**Work Environment:**

**Work Location:** The work location for this position is hybrid and is located in Los Alamos New Mexico. Hybrid is defined as working partially onsite/partially offsite but within 2 hours ground commute of this location. All work locations are at the discretion of management and can change at any time with appropriate notice.

**Position commitment:** Regular appointment employees are required to serve a period of continuous service in their current position in order to be eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the time required, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. The position commitment for this position is 1 year.

**Where You Will Work**

Located in beautiful northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. Our generous benefits package includes:

+ PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with the same large nationwide network

+ Dental and vision insurance

+ Free basic life and disability insurance

+ Paid childbirth and parental leave

+ Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.5% annually)

+ Learning opportunities and tuition assistance

+ Flexible schedules and time off (PTO and holidays)

+ Onsite gyms and wellness programs

+ Extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius)

**Additional Details**

**Directive 206.2** - Employment with Triad requires a favorable decision by NNSA indicating employee is suitable under NNSA Supplemental Directive 206.2 ( . Please note that this requirement applies only to citizens of the United States. Foreign nationals are subject to a similar requirement under DOE Order 142.3A.

**Clearance:** **Q** (Position will be cleared to this level). Selected applicants will be subject to a background investigation conducted by or on behalf of the Federal Government, and must meet eligibility requirements* for access to classified matter. This position requires a Q clearance. and obtaining such clearance requires US Citizenship except in extremely rare circumstances. Dependent upon the position, additional authorization to access classified information may be required, which may or may not be available to dual citizens. Receipt of a Q clearance and additional access authorization ultimately is a decision of the Federal Government and not of Triad.

*Eligibility requirements: To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE Order 472.2 ( for additional information.

**New-Employment Drug Test:** The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a new-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing. Although New Mexico and other states have legalized the use of marijuana, use and possession of marijuana remain illegal under federal law. A positive drug test for marijuana will result in termination of employment, even if the use was pre-offer.

**Regular position:** Term status Laboratory employees applying for regular-status positions are converted to regular status.

**Internal Applicants:** Regular appointment employees who have served the required period of continuous service in their current position are eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the required period of continuous service, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. Please refer to Policy Policy P701 ( for applicant eligibility requirements.

**Equal Opportunity:** Los Alamos National Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive workforce. All employment practices are based on qualification and merit, without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status or spousal affiliation, physical or mental disability, medical conditions, pregnancy, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, or citizenship within the limits imposed by federal laws and regulations. The Laboratory is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. To request such an accommodation, please send an email to ...@lanl.gov or call 1-505-###-#### option 2 and then option 3.