Federal Records & FOIA Support Specialist

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Title - Federal Records & FOIA Support Specialist
Location: Silver Spring, MD / Hybrid or Remote as approved
Client: NOAA
Employment Type: Contract

Position Summary

NOAA is seeking a Federal Records & FOIA Support Specialist to support protected-resources programs through federal records management, FOIA support, administrative-record preparation, and document control. The successful candidate will organize and maintain high-volume electronic and hardcopy records while ensuring documents are accurate, traceable, secure, and readily retrievable.

Key Responsibilities

• Organize and maintain federal program, regulatory, and administrative records.
• Support FOIA requests through document searches, collection, organization, and tracking.
• Compile administrative records supporting regulatory, environmental, offshore energy, and infrastructure activities.
• Assist with litigation-related administrative record preparation.
• Reconcile and clean up electronic shared drives and hardcopy project files.
• Maintain consistent file naming, folder structures, document indexes, and tracking logs.
• Perform document quality-control and identify missing, duplicate, or misfiled records.
• Handle sensitive and confidential information in accordance with federal requirements.
• Use approved government systems, repositories, and equipment.
• Coordinate with government and contractor personnel to locate and organize records.

Required Qualifications

• Experience managing high-volume records, case files, administrative records, or document repositories.
• Experience conducting document searches and maintaining traceable document collections.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and quality control.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, shared drives, SharePoint, or similar document-management tools.
• Ability to obtain required NACI/DOC credentials.

Preferred Qualifications

• Federal records-management or FOIA experience .
• Litigation or legal-document support experience.
• Administrative-record preparation experience.
• Experience with federal, environmental, scientific, regulatory, or NOAA programs.

This is a remote position.