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GS-0301 Miscellaneous Administration and Program resume example (GS-9, 2 pages)

This is a two-page federal resume for a GS-0301 Miscellaneous Administration and Program job at GS-9. It is written the way OPM now requires. Travis is a fictional Army human resources sergeant, a Staff Sergeant with 12 years in, the last four spent running an S-1 shop. The 0301 series is the widest door into federal work, because it holds the program and admin jobs that do not fit any other series. Under it: why each block is built the way it is, the words the job post uses, and a free score on your own federal resume.

The example

Fictional sample. The person, the units, and the numbers are illustrative. Rendered by BMR's Federal Traditional template, the same one a user's resume prints on.

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Travis Nolan
[email protected] | (555) 015-2874 | Clarksville, TN 37042

Administrative and program professional with 12 years of Army human resources and program administration experience supporting organizations of 600 to 14,000 people. Administers personnel programs, coordinates activities across subordinate units, develops written procedures, prepares recurring reports for senior leaders, and manages the money and staff of an administrative section. Rebuilt a battalion's evaluation and awards programs in the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A), moving on-time submission from 68 percent to 99 percent in 24 months. Managed a $310,000 annual training and travel budget in the Defense Travel System (DTS) and closed 3 consecutive command inspection reviews with zero findings. Supervised and trained 6 human resources sergeants and wrote the standard operating procedures a brigade adopted for its 5 battalions. SHRM Certified Professional with a Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Management and an active Secret clearance.

Security Clearance & Citizenship

Security Clearance: Secret | Citizenship: U.S. Citizen | Veterans Preference: 5-Point

Professional Experience
United States Army, 526th Brigade Support Battalion - Fort Campbell, KY01 Sep 2023 to 31 Aug 2025
Battalion Human Resources NCOIC40 hrs/wk

PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION- Administered the personnel programs for a battalion of 700 Soldiers, covering evaluations, awards, promotions, assignments, and separations in the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A). Set the monthly suspense calendar for 5 companies, tracked every action to completion, and briefed the commander weekly. On-time evaluation submission rose from 68 percent to 99 percent, and the promotion backlog cleared in the first quarter.

PROCEDURES AND POLICY GUIDANCE- Wrote and maintained the section's standard operating procedures for evaluations, awards, and personnel actions, interpreting Army regulations for company administrators with no formal training. Published a one-page checklist for each action type, taught the set to 18 unit administrators, and revised it whenever the governing regulation changed. The brigade adopted them as the standard for its 5 battalions.

REPORTS AND STRENGTH ANALYSIS- Produced the weekly personnel status and strength reports the commander and brigade staff used for assignment and readiness decisions, pulling data from IPPS-A and the Digital Training Management System (DTMS). Reconciled assigned strength against authorized strength monthly, researched every variance and reported the cause with a recommended fix. Personnel accountability held above 99 percent across 8 quarterly reviews.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION- Supervised 6 human resources sergeants and specialists, set the section's workload and priorities, wrote their evaluations, and certified each one on personnel actions before releasing their work unreviewed. Managed a $310,000 annual training and travel budget in the Defense Travel System (DTS), checking every authorization and voucher against the funding line before approval. Closed 3 consecutive command inspection reviews with zero findings.

United States Army, 101st Airborne Division - Fort Campbell, KY01 Jul 2021 to 31 Aug 2023
Personnel Actions Sergeant40 hrs/wk

PERSONNEL ACTIONS PROCESSING- Processed about 3,400 personnel actions a year for a division of 14,000 Soldiers, including reassignments, deferments, bars to continued service, and exceptions to policy, in IPPS-A. Checked each packet against the governing Army regulation and the division's own guidance, returned incomplete packets with the corrections written out, and staffed the approved ones to the chief of staff. Average packet turnaround fell from 11 days to 4.

COORDINATION ACROSS ORGANIZATIONS- Served as the division point of contact for 6 brigade personnel sections, answering policy questions, settling conflicting readings of a regulation, and raising the cases the regulation did not cover. Ran a monthly working group with the brigade personnel sergeants to line up procedures and share the actions that were coming back most often. The return rate on brigade submissions dropped by half in the first year.

RECORDS MANAGEMENT- Audited official military personnel files in the Interactive Personnel Electronic Records Management System (iPERMS) for 6 brigades, verifying that awards, evaluations, and training documents were filed correctly before promotion boards. Built a monthly audit report showing each brigade its missing documents by Soldier, then worked the corrections with the responsible administrator. Corrected 2,100 records over two years ahead of the centralized boards.

TRAINING AND STANDARDS- Trained 40 brigade and battalion administrators on IPPS-A transactions, records filing, and the personnel action packet standard through 12 classes and a written desk guide. Certified each administrator before system access was granted and sampled their work each month. Errors on submitted packets fell 45 percent across the division.

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United States Army, 3d Infantry Division - Fort Stewart, GA01 Jun 2018 to 30 Jun 2021
Human Resources Sergeant40 hrs/wk

PERSONNEL ACCOUNTABILITY- Maintained daily personnel accountability for a battalion of 650 Soldiers in the Electronic Military Personnel Office system (eMILPO) and the Deployed Theater Accountability Software (DTAS) through two rotations to the National Training Center. Reconciled the unit manning roster against arrivals, departures, and hospitalizations every morning and cleared each discrepancy before the division report closed. Accountability was reported at 100 percent for 36 straight months.

EVALUATIONS AND AWARDS- Managed the battalion's evaluation and awards programs, processing about 300 noncommissioned officer evaluation reports and 250 award recommendations a year in the Evaluation Entry System (EES). Screened every report for administrative accuracy and a valid rating chain before it went forward, and returned the errors with the correction marked. The battalion finished 3 straight rating cycles with no late reports.

TRAVEL AND FUNDING ADMINISTRATION- Administered the battalion's travel program in DTS as the organizational defense travel administrator, building about 400 authorizations and vouchers a year for schools, temporary duty, and support missions. Verified each claim against the funding line and the receipt set, then worked the rejected ones with the finance office the same week. Cleared a 60-voucher backlog in 3 weeks and held the delinquency rate under 2 percent.

United States Army, 2d Infantry Division - Camp Humphreys, South Korea01 Sep 2015 to 31 May 2018
Human Resources Specialist40 hrs/wk

IN AND OUT PROCESSING- Processed in-processing and out-processing for about 1,800 Soldiers a year arriving in and leaving Korea, verifying orders, records, and entitlements in eMILPO before each transaction posted. Coordinated the steps with housing, finance, and the transportation office so a Soldier's actions closed in one visit instead of three. Average in-processing time dropped from 3 days to 1.

RECORDS AND CORRESPONDENCE- Maintained official military personnel files in iPERMS for a brigade of 3,200 Soldiers, filing awards, evaluations, and training certificates and pulling documents for promotion boards. Prepared memorandums, orders, and correspondence for the adjutant's signature to Army records standards. Passed 2 annual records inspections with no findings and cleared 900 misfiled documents in the first year.

PROMOTIONS AND PERSONNEL PROGRAMS- Administered the brigade's semi-centralized promotion program, computing promotion points, checking eligibility against the monthly cutoff scores, and publishing the orders for about 220 Soldiers a year. Counseled Soldiers and their sergeants on how the point system worked and which documents were missing from their records. No promotion was delayed for a records error in 2017.

United States Army, 4th Infantry Division - Fort Carson, CO01 Jun 2013 to 31 Aug 2015
Human Resources Specialist40 hrs/wk

PERSONNEL DATA ENTRY AND ACCURACY- Processed arrivals, departures, duty status changes, and address updates for a battalion of 600 Soldiers in eMILPO under the review of the personnel sergeant. Verified every transaction against the Soldier's orders and record before posting it, and corrected rejected transactions within one duty day. Held a 98 percent first-time accuracy rate on the section's monthly quality check for two years.

CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUPPORT- Ran the battalion personnel counter for about 35 Soldiers and family members a day, answering pay, identification card, records, and entitlement questions and routing the ones that belonged to the finance or legal office. Prepared leave forms, common access card requests, and identification tags, and tracked each open case to closure. Logged the recurring questions and turned them into the answers the unit put in its welcome packet.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Human Resource ManagementAmerican Military University | May 2023

Associate of Arts in Business AdministrationCentral Texas College | Aug 2018

Certifications

SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)Society for Human Resource Management | Issued: 2024

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Why this example works

  1. The summary is one dense paragraph, not a headline.

    Six sentences, the way BMR writes it. Who he is and how long. The size of the organizations he supported. The duties in the words the 0301 series uses: administers programs, coordinates activities, develops procedures, prepares reports, manages resources. Two results with numbers, the systems, the credential, the clearance. It never says "applying for" and never names the job post. The HR specialist already knows which job you applied to. The summary's job is to prove you have done the work.

  2. 0301 is the widest series, so the resume has to say which kind of admin work you did.

    OPM uses 0301 for program and administrative work that does not fit another series. That is why the job posts under it look so different from each other. A resume that just says "administrative duties" dies here. Every block on this page names the program, the system, the volume, and the result, so the rater can tell what kind of 0301 work this is.

  3. Every job block carries the fields the rater needs to credit the time, and nothing else.

    Employer, title, dates with month and year (the day is fine too), and hours per week. Leave off hours per week and the rater may not be able to count that job at all. No series or grade on a military job: those fields are for prior federal positions.

  4. Every bullet is a three-sentence paragraph, even on the oldest job.

    Each opens with a header in caps the rater can scan, then a dash and the paragraph: what he did, how, in which system (IPPS-A, eMILPO, iPERMS, DTS), at what scale, and what came of it. The 2013 specialist job gets the same treatment as the 2025 NCOIC job. A one-line bullet gives the rater nothing to grade, and a thin old job makes the rater wonder what you did for two years.

  5. The headers are the series' own words.

    "Program administration." "Procedures and policy guidance." "Reports and strength analysis." "Resource management." "Coordination across organizations." Those phrases come straight from the 0301 duties OPM lists. The rater matches your lines to the job post, so use the job post's words.

  6. The top job proves the GS-9 requirement on its own.

    GS-9 asks for one year at the GS-7 level. For 0301 that means you ran the program, not just the paperwork. The first block says he administered the programs for a battalion, set the suspense calendar, wrote the procedures a brigade then adopted, and managed the budget and the staff. Those words are there to answer that requirement.

  7. Acronyms get spelled out the first time, then used.

    IPPS-A becomes "the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army" once, then stays an acronym. A rater outside the Army has never seen it. One clause fixes that, and the acronym is still there for a search.

  8. Nothing OPM leaves out is on the page.

    No Social Security number, no photo, no age, no references, no KSA essays, no skills list, no supervisor line. Clearance, citizenship, and preference sit in one line. Preference is proven by the DD-214 under Required Documents, not by a paragraph in the resume.

The translation, military line to federal line

How an NCOER or a duty description says itWhat the 0301 rater is looking for
S-1 NCOIC, 526th BSBBattalion Human Resources NCOIC, administrative section; 40 hrs/wk
Ran the eval and awards programsAdministered personnel programs; set the suspense calendar; tracked every action to completion
Wrote the S-1 SOPDeveloped written procedures and guidelines; trained 18 unit administrators on them
Built the weekly PERSTATPrepared recurring strength and status reports leadership used for assignment decisions
Worked IPPS-A transactionsProcessed personnel actions in an enterprise personnel and pay system
Unit DTA for the battalionAdministered a $310,000 travel and training budget; reviewed every authorization and voucher
iPERMS audits before the boardAudited official personnel records; corrected 2,100 records ahead of selection boards
G-1 point of contact for the brigadesCoordinated activities across 6 subordinate organizations; resolved policy questions
Supervised 6 Soldiers; wrote NCOERsSupervised and trained 6 staff; wrote performance evaluations; reviewed their work
Passed the CIP with no findingsClosed 3 consecutive command inspection reviews with zero findings

The words the announcement uses

The words a 0301 job post uses, and what GS-9 requires.

Duties the job post lists

  • Administer programs
  • Coordinate activities across organizational units
  • Develop policies, procedures, and guidelines
  • Analyze administrative operations and processes
  • Prepare reports and present recommendations
  • Manage resources
  • Provide support services
  • Apply knowledge of organizational management and resource allocation

Competencies the questionnaire tends to rate

  • Analytical thinking
  • Program administration
  • Planning and evaluation
  • Organizational awareness
  • Problem solving
  • Oral and written communication

What GS-9 requires (OPM, Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Administrative and Management Positions): one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-7, OR a master's or equivalent graduate degree, OR two full years of progressively higher level graduate education, OR a combination. GS-11 moves that to one year at GS-9, or a Ph.D. or three years of graduate education. The 0301 series has no individual occupational requirement beyond the group standard.

Sources: OPM qualification standard for the Miscellaneous Administration and Program Series 0301 ("There are no Individual Occupational Requirements for this series"; use the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Administrative and Management Positions) and that group standard; USAJOBS help, "What should I include in my federal resume?"; OPM Merit Hiring Plan resources, "Applicant Guidance on the Two-Page Resume Limit" (limit effective September 27, 2025). All read 2026-09-09. Title 5 positions; Title 38 and hybrid Title 38 positions are exempt from the two-page limit.

Frequently asked questions

Is 0301 a real job or a catch-all?

Both, and that is the good news. OPM built 0301 to hold program and administrative work that does not fit a named series. So one 0301 post is a program support job at the VA and the next is a staff operations job at a base. Read the duties, not the series title. If the post sounds like the work you did in an S-1, an orderly room, or a squadron staff, you can compete for it, and there are more 0301 openings than almost any other series.

Can I qualify for GS-9 with military experience only?

Often, yes. GS-9 asks for one year of specialized experience at the GS-7 level, or a master's degree, or a mix of the two. A mid-career NCO who ran a program, wrote the procedures, and reported the results to a commander can usually show that year. The catch is the word "equivalent." Your resume has to show the work at that level, in the job post's words, with the hours per week and the dates the rater needs to count it. That is what Travis's top block does.

Do I have to list my supervisor and my salary?

No. USAJOBS requires the employer, the job title, start and end dates with month and year, and hours per week for each job. Series and grade are required only for past federal jobs. Supervisor name and phone are optional; some applicants add them for the most recent job, with "may contact" or "do not contact." Salary is not on OPM's list at all. This example leaves both off, and it leaves grade off too, because series and grade are for prior federal jobs, not military rank.

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