Student Trainee (Summer Intern 2024)

Student Trainee (Summer Intern 2024)

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

U.S. Secret Service

Summary

If you have a commitment to excellence and are looking for a unique and fulfilling career, the U.S. Secret Service is offering a full-time, paid summer internship. Come join a diverse team with one of the most elite law enforcement agencies in the world. This program is for high school, undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral college students while also serving as a pipeline for entry-level positions after graduation.

Duties

This summer internship offers students an unmatched opportunity to be immersed in the integrated mission of protection of the U.S. President and world leaders among others and the opportunity to support in investigations including counterfeit, fraud, and cyber committed by criminals around the world.

You will be able to select from the below areas of focus that align with your studies and career interests:

Protective Operations

Investigative Operations/Compliance

Human Resources/Training

Budget/Finance

Facility Management

Information Technology/Cyber

Business Operations

Intelligence

Science/Engineering

As a Student Trainee you will perform essential assignments which include, but are not limited to:

Supporting senior level staff with program goals and activities to gain practical work experience that supplements training in academic course of study.

Performing administrative/operational duties including, but not limited to researching, locating and gathering information which specifically identified material from various sources for the use of the staff.

Checking reports and other documents for correctness and appropriate format; verifying discrepancies with the appropriate office(s) and/or stakeholders.

Assisting senior level employees in evaluating assigned program goals; conducting follow-up actions to ensure timely receipt of responses; assembling data; and providing general information.

Maintaining files, responding to general inquiries and creating documents for presentations.

Apply for this exciting opportunity to impact functions that support administrative operations in concentrations within the Secret Service. For more information on the United States Secret Service click here.

Pathways is an Excepted Service Appointment, Schedule D, and may NOT be combined with other Excepted Service Appointments (e.g., Schedule A). This is an appointment with not to exceed (NTE) date of October 31, 2024.

For additional information regarding the Pathways Program, please refer to: Students & Recent Graduates on USAJOBS.

More than one selection may be made from this announcement if additional identical vacancies in the same title, series, grade and unit occur.

Any offers of employment made pursuant to this announcement will be consistent with all applicable authorities, including Presidential Memoranda, Executive Orders, interpretive U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance and U.S. Office of Management and Budget plans and policies concerning hiring. These authorities are subject to change.

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