Loan Assistant/Loan Specialist, USDA Rural Development
This is a Loan Assistant/Specialist position as part of the Pathways Recent Graduate Program for USDA Rural Development. To be eligible for this program, you must have graduate within the last 2 years as a non-veteran, and within the last 6 years as a veteran due to active duty status. If you graduate by the closing date of the announcement, you must provide proof of degree conferment with your application materials.
To apply for this position, please visit the following link: Pathways Recent Graduate -Loan Specialist/Assistant.
Please be sure to read the announcement in its entirety and include all required documents when applying.
Openings:
1 vacancy for either Flint or Mason, Michigan
1 vacancy in each of the following locations - Monticello, Utah - Salt Lake City, Utah and Vernal, Utah
Rate of Pay Based on Location
Summary
Located in a State or Area office. Responsibility of assisting in the application processing and loan and grant servicing reviews for Single Family (SFH) loans and grants, and/or Multi-Family Housing (MFH) loans, and/or Community Program (CP) loans and grants, and/or Business Program (BP) loans and grants.
Responsibilities
- Performs performs a variety of routine tasks as training, and to gain experience and technical competence in the methods, procedures, principles, theories, and techniques utilized in administering RD loan and grant programs.
- Segments of higher graded duties and projects may be assigned to provide experience and competency for future more complex loan examining and servicing work.
- Under the guidance of a higher graded specialist meets with other lenders and potential borrowers to explain RD programs and requirements.
Additional information
- Recent Graduate appointments are intended to last for 1 year. Recent Graduates who satisfactorily complete all the USDA Recent Graduates Program requirements may be non-competitively converted to a Term or Permanent appointment in the competitive service. Conversion is not guaranteed. Recent Graduates converted to Term appointments may later be non-competitively converted to a Permanent competitive service position.
Loan Assistant/Specialist, GS-1165-05/07/09 career ladder position. The full performance level (FPL) of the position to which converted may be up to the GS-09 level.
NOTE: An agency is not required to convert any individual in a Pathways position, to a position in the competitive service, whether upon completion of degree requirements or otherwise. Conversion to a competitive service position is not an entitlement.
Recent Graduates with a degree in one of the following fields is preferred: Finance, business administration, economics, accounting, insurance, engineering, mathematics, banking and credit, law, real estate operations, statistics, or other fields related to the position, such as agriculture, agricultural economics, farm, livestock or ranch management, or rural sociology.