Student Trainee (Administrative & Office Innovation)

Student Trainee (Administrative & Office Innovation)

The Pathways Program is designed to provide students enrolled in a wide variety of educational institutions, from high school to graduate level, with opportunities to work in agencies and explore Federal careers while still in school and while getting paid for the work performed. Students who successfully complete the program may be eligible for conversion to a permanent position in the civil service.

CBP Office of Trade is the architect of the most robust customs system in the world and the second largest revenue source for the U.S. Government. We facilitate legitimate trade, enforce U.S. laws, and protect the American economy as well as consumer health and safety. Collaborating with industry and government partners, we create a fair, competitive, and safe trade environment, and we enforce U.S. trade law to protect national economic security. Our expertise in the trade community allows us to lead the development of streamlined and efficient processes that provide certainty for legitimate importers, while combatting transnational crime.

This position starts at a salary of $37,112.00 (GS-03, Step 1) to $54,160.00 (GS-04, Step 10).

Positions with known promotion potential do not guarantee promotion, nor is the promise of promotion implied. Your promotion potential will ultimately be determined by your qualifications and will be initiated at management's discretion.

In this position, you will serve as a Student Trainee providing technical assistance to specialists assigned to Office of Trade that perform vital line-program and/or administrative functions and responsibilities.

Typical duties may include:

• Performing a variety of record keeping, reporting, and informational duties in support of the office's programs.
• Compiling, maintaining, and updating data, lists, and reports. Checking and verifying data by direct comparison with source documents, pointing out discrepancies, and checking or verifying textual material. Updating manuals on policies, directives, and memoranda.
• Assisting in preparing reports utilizing various databases and automated systems, and developing tracking/filing systems for all incoming and outgoing documents including mail.
• Performing other miscellaneous duties such as reviewing and maintaining reports, making copies, and arranging for conference rooms, records, sorts, assembles, and files information on specific cases, current projects, or studies.

Qualifications

You must be a student who has been accepted for enrollment or who is currently enrolled and seeking a degree on a full or half-time basis in one of the federally administered, organized educational programs or accredited educational institutions below such as a public or private high school; state-approved home school; technical or vocational school; two (2) year or four (4) year college or university; graduate or professional school; a registered apprenticeship program, job corps or postsecondary home school curriculum. Review Pathways Interns for additional eligibility information

AND:

GS-03: Completion of one (1) academic year of post-high school study. 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.

GS-04: Completed 2 full academic years of post-high school study or an associate's degree. Two years of full-time academic study is defined as 60 semester hours, 90 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university.

You must meet all qualification requirements, including education if applicable to this position, subject to verification at any stage of the application process by 01/14/2026.