This position is located in the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Office of Human Capital Services (HCS). The Office of Human Capital Services (HCS) provides world-class customer service to the public and Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) employees who serve Veterans while ensuring positive interactions through efficient and effective employee life cycle management.

Duties

The primary purpose of this position is to provide objectively based information for making decisions on the administrative aspects of organizational operations and management. The incumbent performs a variety of substantive analytical, advisory work, oversight, and direction of complex scheduling and extensive calendar management, as well as management of content and flow of information to senior executives. The incumbent is to relieve the Executive Director of time demands associated with matters concerning administration, coordination, and other similar activities that are crucial to maintaining the functionality of the office and its administrative programs. Specific duties include: Researches, investigates, and conducts comprehensive studies relating to the effectiveness and efficiency of major administrative and management operations. Establishes schedules for planning, coordination, and accomplishment of work to facilitate the planning process for HCS Staff work. Makes recommendations for new or modified developments, priorities, and objectives to improve the performance in mission-related programs. Conducts formal and informal presentations, as required, to justify and defend programmatic aspects of mission-critical programs. Performs comprehensive program analysis and evaluation, taking into consideration factors such as cost effectiveness, attainment of program goals and objectives, and compliance with pertinent legal and regulatory guidelines. Assists managers and staff by projecting staffing needs, provides assistance with writing position descriptions, assists with developing job analyses, assists with preparing performance plans, reviews performance appraisals for technical accuracy and drafts disciplinary and adverse actions. Obtains guidance from Labor Employee Relations (LER) for management on the application of regulatory rules on issues from abuse of leave, insubordination, reassignments, realignments, change to lower grade and pay issues. Tracks status of appraisals and processing of incentive awards, obtains appropriate signatures and fund approval and submits for action. Keeps abreast of performance management policies and regulations. Provides for the overall administrative management of the organization such as maintaining hard and soft file systems. Define administrative requirements, and/or provide advice to management on related administrative issues. Applies new policies, provides advice on requirements, maintains administrative systems, and prepares administrative paperwork. Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services; is committed to continuous process improvement. Performs other related duties as assigned Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. The grade progression for this position is GS-12/13. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: Not available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst; GS-12 39372A, GS-13 39371A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:08/10/2023. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: Applicants who are current Federal employees, former Federal employees applying for reinstatement, or a current federal employee applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment must meet time in grade requirements. 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. NOTE: This does not apply to Non-Federal Applicants, or applicants applying for consideration under Non-Competitive Authority (i.e.... "30% or more Disability", VRA, and/or Schedule A). To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). 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 also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50's and/or General Adjustment SF-50's as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11 level. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-12 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Experience with problem resolution, and program evaluation strategies pertaining to program administration. Experience applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to issues or functions related to office administration. GS-13 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Experience with problem resolution, and program evaluation strategies pertaining to program administration. Experience applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to issues or functions related to office administration. Experience applying methods, principles, and practices of the HR field, appropriate laws, regulations, Executive Orders, court decisions, policies and HR systems related to HR functional areas, such as employee and labor relations, retirement and benefits, and issues related to the Federal recruitment and placement function. Experience conducting detailed analyses of complex functions and work processes. Volunteer Experience: 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. Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week. Physical Requirements: The work is mostly sedentary in nature. Some walking, stooping, and bending is required while attending meetings, inspecting work operations, and/or traveling. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no education substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Angela Davis
• Phone: (202) 461-5332
• Email: [email protected]