These terms are used in the Type of Work section of the USPS class specifications and are defined here to ensure consistent understanding of the terms so that positions can be properly allocated. For example, hiring new employees would be administrative, but making hiring policy decisions would not necessarily be. Examples of duties include conducting complex research, monitoring policy and procedure implementation and compliance, completing special projects, and acting as a liaison between offices.
Duties involve making decisions related to work in the occupational field.
Minimum qualifications normally require a degree in the occupational field. Personal assistant duties include maintaining the supervisor's calendar, making travel arrangements for the supervisor and preparing requests for reimbursement, composing routine correspondence, taking and transcribing dictation, screening the supervisor's telephone calls and mail, and arranging the supervisor's meetings. Supervisory duties include the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, promote, discharge, assign tasks, reward, evaluate, approve salary increases, discipline, or to effectively recommend such action. Supervisory duties must be the primary responsibility of the position. The incumbent must spend more than 50 percent of the time engaged in supervisory duties.