Federal Travel Program Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide comprehensive support for official Government travel, encompassing planning, authorizations, reservations, vouchers, approval workflows, reimbursement processing, reporting, training, and assistance with electronic travel systems.

• Aid employees in planning official travel, estimating costs, securing travel authorizations, compiling documentation, arranging funding, establishing approval paths, and ensuring compliance.

• Facilitate reservations for airfare, lodging, rental cars, itineraries, and cancellations.

• Prepare, review, route, and track travel and local vouchers as well as reimbursement requests.

• Offer both functional and technical support for E2 Solutions and related travel systems.

• Strategize and execute the agency’s transition from E2 Solutions to Go.gov.

• Set up workflows, approval-routing paths, user roles, permissions, and role-based access.

• Conduct virtual training sessions, webinars, remote desk-side assistance, and limited in-person classroom training.

• Clarify Federal Travel Regulation and Agency requirements to users.

• Extract data from travel systems and generate reports on travel, travel cards, management, compliance, and audit support.

• Maintain accurate records, implement quality-control measures, and assist with quarterly, phase-in, and phase-out planning.

• Safeguard Government Furnished Information and Government Furnished Property.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a federal agency travel program.

• Proven experience in processing federal travel authorizations and vouchers.

• Strong familiarity with the Federal Travel Regulation.

• Experience with E2 Solutions or another federal electronic travel system.

• Background in assisting federal employees and approving officials with travel-related issues.

• Experience in providing travel policy guidance, customer support, or user training.

• Experience in creating or maintaining travel workflows and approval-routing paths.

• Capability to interpret travel regulations and apply them to specific situations.

• Experience in reviewing travel expenses, documentation, accounting information, and reimbursement requests.

• Ability to adhere to Agency policies, procedures, privacy standards, and operational protocols.

• Applicants must possess a favorably completed federal background investigation acceptable to FRTIB through reciprocity.

• The minimum acceptable investigation is a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI).

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory.

• Candidates situated in the Eastern Time Zone are preferred.

• An existing favorably adjudicated federal background investigation eligible for reciprocity is preferred.

• Experience with Go.gov implementation, testing, configuration, training, or operations is a plus.

• Experience supporting international or high-visibility Government travel is advantageous.

• Familiarity with Government travel cards, including Individually Billed Accounts and Centrally Billed Accounts, is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work opportunities within the continental United States.

• Full-time schedule from Monday to Friday.

• Occasional travel required for in-person meetings or training.

• Limited in-person classroom training available upon Agency request.