Join the Selective Service System’s team of energetic, career-minded professionals! The Selective Service System offers an opportunity for motivated individuals with excellent interpersonal skills and a strong work ethic to launch or continue a career in public service.
Our fast-paced environment consists of challenging and rewarding work, training opportunities, and the potential for advancement. The Selective Service System offers competitive wages, the Thrift Savings Plan with matching funds (similar to a 401k savings program), extensive health care benefits (dental and vision coverage available), paid vacation time, and a host of unique work-life benefit options that include telework options as well as alternate and flexible work schedules for most positions.
GS 6-7 in North Chicago, IL
The Selective Service System (SSS) is an independent, Executive-branch agency which prepares to conscript talent in the event of a national emergency. This position is in the Data Management Center (DMC), Digital Mail Operations. The incumbent applies technical knowledge of mail processing, handling of personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive personal information (SPI) to create, open, sort and batch correspondence in support of the Registration program.
The Selective Service System is a leader in supporting diversity, employee innovation, strategic management, and employee satisfaction. The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, led by the Office of Personnel Management, has ranked the Selective Service System as one of the top 10 best places to work within Small Government Agencies for four years in a row.
Launch or continue your future in public service by applying now.
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Our policy is to promote and ensure equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or reprisal. Equal employment opportunity principles govern all aspects of the agency’s personnel policies, program practices, and operations.
Selective Service is committed to employing and retaining individuals with disabilities to be part of its diverse and dynamic workforce. We hire these individuals using the Schedule A excepted hiring authority. The agency also has a disability program to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, whether it is for an applicant or an employee.
To assist veterans seeking employment, Selective Service joined other federal agencies committed to taking extra steps to hire them through the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA’s) VA for Vets program. This program aligns with President Obama’s executive order establishing an interagency council on veterans’ employment to promote opportunities for veterans and meet the federal government’s staffing needs for highly skilled individuals.
For more information on VA for Vets, please visit their website:
Selective Service’s Pathways Programs provide opportunities for students and recent graduates to be considered for federal employment through:
For more information regarding Pathways Programs, please contact our team at Information@sss.gov.