The candidate serves as the Executive Assistant to the VBA Deputy Chief Financial Officer (DCFO), Office of Financial Management (OFM), and as such serves as an expert advisor - and the primary point of contact - to the DCFO by providing technical and administrative guidance and assistance in matters of operations management, thereby allowing the VBA DCFO to concentrate on high level policy decisions and major management actions.

Duties

Specific duties include: Knowledge of federal budget cycle to direct the development of budget strategies to provide management with information and recommendations resulting in efficient allocation of resources. Expert skill and ability to provide day-to-day operational support pertaining to budget, travel administration, contracts, financial management, media and congressional inquiries, controlled correspondence, and other administrative functions for a staff office. Ability to provide senior level management with high visible, complex, and difficult issues associated with organizational and operational support. Establish well-defined and realistic goals in order to complete assignments in timely manner Engage and collaborate with customers to assess needs, provide assistance, resolve problems and satisfy expectations. Determine, through assessment and analysis work resources requirements in order to meet short and long-term goals Deal calmly and effectively with high stress situations (ex. tight deadlines, hostile individuals, conflicting opinions/viewpoints, emergency situations, etc.) Adapt work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unforeseen obstacles. Promote improved management practices to the DCFO by suggesting changes in procedures, work methods, and similar matters, and performs other special or unique studies or project activities. Compose complex correspondence or other written work that is often controversial for high-level officials. Provides expert advice to DCFO on technical and administrative policies and procedures and assists in matters of operations management and administrative practices Provide or disseminate information in writing Clearly express relevant facts and recommendations in both individual and group meetings. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8 am - 4 pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: Yes, this is a Virtual position - Employee is expected to report to the nearest VBA Facility based on telework agreement to any one of the locations listed in the announcement Position Description/PD#: Executive Assistant; GS-0301-14 PD#37381-A 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:09/05/2023. 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", 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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-14 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: The applicant must 1. Be able to provide operational support pertaining to budget, travel administration, contracts, financial management, media and congressional inquiries. 2. Controlled correspondence, and other administrative functions to support Senior Executive level leaders on highly visible, complex, and difficult issues associated with organizational and operational support. 3. Manage Congressional responses, prepared Congressional hearing and testimony documents / content, and designed / presented Congressional and stakeholder briefings in support of Senior Executive leaders. 4. Demonstrated previous experience in completing special projects that are complex in nature and have enterprise-wide impact, and a high-level of interaction with other Senior Executive leaders, political appointees, and stakeholders on complex and highly visible issues. 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: Work is typically performed in an adequately lighted and climate-controlled business office setting. There is occasional noise from normal office equipment. 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/.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Lauranetta Hyman
• Phone: 410-230-4400
• Email: [email protected]