The position is for a Supervisory Financial Program Administrator of the VISN 8 Consolidated Travel Unit. VISN 8 is a healthcare network comprising seven major medical centers and multiple outlying clinics throughout Florida, South Georgia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Working in the VISN 8 Finance Office and Consolidated Travel Unit, the incumbent interacts with staff throughout VISN 8, in the VISN program offices and consolidated units.

Duties

Major duties include, but are not limited to: Manages the day-to-day operations of the Consolidated Travel Unit Sets priorities, assigns tasks, coordinates operations, and ensures efficient planning of activities by adjusting workload, when necessary, to meet deadlines and work priorities. Serves as training coordinator for employee travel and develops training plans to include development of training content materials (guides, handouts, etc.) and to presents training to various groups including travelers, approvers, and travel system administrators. Completes, oversees, and ensures timely submission of recurring reports relevant to employee travel. Provides annual budget call assistance to program offices by providing, reports on travel spending, and analyzes data to assist with budget formulation. Serves as manager of US Bank travel card accounts to include the individually billed accounts (IBA) and Centrally Billed Accounts for the VISN 8 Office and associated consolidated units. Analyzes all unusual or irregular travel rejects/problems and when such analysis discloses a reject/problem not covered entirely or sufficiently by existing financial procedures, uses independent judgment to devise a satisfactory method to best meet needs of customer and policy Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am- 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: May be available Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Financial Program Administrator/PD111520 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/09/2023. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Preferred Experience: A minimum of two years experience preparing and reviewing travel authorizations and vouchers in Concur Government Edition (CGE). You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-7 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Sets priorities, assigns tasks, coordinates operations, and ensures efficient planning of activities by adjusting workload, when necessary, to meet deadlines and work priorities; Review work and evaluate employee performance; Coordinate training for employee travel by developing training plans and materials; Experience with Travel, Transit Benefits and Employee/Ex-Employee Debts; Experiences ensuring travel control points are properly monitored for compliance with policy and proper budget execution; Provide guidance on travel expense worksheets and reports; Plan and arrange different kinds of travel. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical ReasoningFinancial ManagementTechnical Competence Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: Work is mostly sedentary, although there may be some nominal walking or standing for short periods of time. Work sometimes requires long hours to meet project deadlines and to devise corrective action for unexpected technical crises. Occasional overnight travel is required. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.

Note: If you are qualifying on education or training your resume must include: Education- Full name of school attended, dates, date graduated, and major. Formal training: name of course, name of instructor, date completed, name of accredited college, university, organization or company.

Contacts

• Address VHA VISN 8 Human Resources 140 FOUNTAIN PARKWAY N. SUITE 600 ST PETERSBURG, FL 33716 US
• Name: Shaquanna Burroughs
• Phone: 254-408-1993
• Email: [email protected]