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School Support Assistant

Department of Defense Education Activity

Department of Defense

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Salary

$42,538 - $61,643

per year

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February 9, 2026More DOD jobs →

GS-5 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $33,878 - $44,042

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience. Bachelor's degree.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves managing school supplies, tracking inventory, and ensuring equipment is maintained and secure at a Department of Defense school on a military base in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

You'll handle ordering, recording, and auditing supplies while helping with safety checks.

It's a good fit for someone organized with basic administrative or logistics experience who wants to support military families and education.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience at GS-05 level, including tracking supplies in automated systems, recording transactions, and identifying equipment repairs
  • For GS-06: One year of specialized experience including maintaining property accounting systems, conducting inventories, and coordinating equipment maintenance (no education substitution allowed)
  • Four years of education above high school in business, secretarial, or technical fields (or combination with experience for GS-05)
  • U.S. citizenship
  • Ability to use supply and logistics software for requisitioning, storing, and issuing procedures
  • Experience serving as a property custodian with perpetual inventory management
  • Familiarity with security inspections and compliance with DoDEA and military installation safety programs

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is located at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. DoDEA Americas Mid-Atlantic District operates 26 schools in 2 countries, 3 states, and one territory across 3 time zones.

There are nearly 900,000 military connected children of all ages worldwide, of which more than 10,000 are enrolled in DoDEA Americas Mid-Atlantic District schools. Who May Apply: U.S.

Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Specialized Experience for GS-05: One year of specialized experience which includes tracking supplies in an automated system; recording supply transactions; and identifying equipment needing repair.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04).

OR Education: Four years of education above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60.

Add the two percentages.

OR Specialized experience for GS-06: One year of specialized experience which includes maintain an accurate accounting and reporting system for accountable property; conduct inventories; and coordinating repair or maintenance of equipment.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this grade, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

  • Utilize supply and logistic support systems for standard requisitioning, stock, storing, records and issuing procedures.
  • Verify and record serial numbers upon receipt of goods, bar codes items.
  • Assure school support requirements are prepared, edited, and submitted to the Area Director's office for the purchase of supplies and equipment.
  • Serve as property custodian maintaining a perpetual inventory of non-expendable property and supply records for durable items in the school.
  • Assist Area and District personnel with physical security inspections to ensure adequate security measures are in place and adhered to.
  • Assure all supply transactions are recorded in an automated system and that copies of documents are file appropriately to maintain an adequate automated and hard-copy audit trail.
  • Set or revise stock levels for authorized items available through the supply system.
  • Assist in monitoring the school safety and security programs to ensure compliance with program requirements of DoDEA and the supporting military installation.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 1/30/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 1/30/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: NC7X-26-12872751-DE