Federal Travel Program Specialist
Title: Federal Travel Program Specialist
Location: Remote, Continental United States
Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday
Salary: $70,000-$85,000, commensurate with experience
KMRG, LLC (KMRG) is a federal services company that hires talented professionals to support Government agencies and the communities they serve. We are hiring a Federal Travel Program Specialist to join our team and provide remote travel-management support to the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB).
In this role, you will provide end-to-end support for official Government travel, including travel planning, authorizations, reservations, vouchers, approval workflows, reimbursement processing, reporting, training, and electronic travel-system support.
This position is a strong fit for someone with substantial federal travel-program experience who is organized, customer-focused, comfortable training users, and skilled at translating complex travel regulations into clear and practical guidance.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Apply today!
RESPONSIBILITIES
Federal Travel Planning & Authorizations
- Assist employees with planning official Government travel and estimating anticipated travel costs
- Help travelers identify airfare, lodging, meals and incidental expenses, rental vehicles, and other reimbursable expenses
- Prepare, review, route, and monitor travel authorizations before official travel begins
- Verify accounting codes, funding lines, supporting documentation, and required justifications
- Ensure travel requests comply with the Federal Travel Regulation, GSA guidance, and Agency policies
- Establish and maintain appropriate supervisory, budgetary, and financial approval paths
- Resolve returned actions, routing errors, incomplete documentation, and approval delays
- Provide additional coordination for international, VIP, and other high-visibility travel
Reservation & Booking Support
- Assist travelers with airfare, lodging, and rental-car reservations
- Make, modify, or cancel reservations electronically or through the appropriate Travel Management Center
- Verify Government city-pair fares, lodging per diem limits, and applicable travel requirements
- Determine the appropriate use of Individually Billed Accounts and Centrally Billed Accounts
- Coordinate itinerary changes and cancellations resulting from mission or administrative needs
- Support web-based reservation functions and apply knowledge of Global Distribution Systems
Travel Vouchers & Reimbursement
- Prepare, review, route, and monitor travel vouchers and local vouchers
- Compare vouchers against approved travel authorizations and supporting documentation
- Review claimed expenses for accuracy, allowability, and regulatory compliance
- Validate mileage, transit, parking, lodging, airfare, and other allowable travel expenses
- Identify and resolve errors that could delay reimbursement
- Support electronic processing of approved reimbursements through the financial-management system
Electronic Travel-System Support
- Provide functional and technical support for E2 Solutions and associated travel systems
- Assist users with travel authorizations, reservations, vouchers, reimbursements, and system navigation
- Troubleshoot system errors, workflow issues, and travel-system integration problems
- Create, configure, and maintain travel workflows and approval-routing paths
- Administer protected user roles, permissions, and role-based access
- Coach users on travel-system functions and proper travel-processing procedures
Go.gov Transition Support
- Assist with planning and implementing the Agency's transition from E2 Solutions to Go.gov
- Map existing authorization, voucher, approval, payment, and reporting workflows to Go.gov
- Support system configuration, user-role administration, workflow validation, and readiness activities
- Assist with system testing, issue resolution, and process adjustments
- Help maintain