OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans?

Duties

This position is located at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), VA Medical Center, in the Nutrition and Food Service (N&FS) department. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Supervisory Administrative Officer (AO) for Nutrition & Food Service (N&FS) and is responsible for the coordination and monitoring of all Nutrition & Food Service administrative programs. The Administrative Officer at this level (GS-11) has supervisory responsibility of all office staff and has authority to make changes to the administrative programs to support NFS goals. Major duties and responsibilities include: Oversees and facilitates the administrative management for Nutrition & Food Service. Provides technical and administrative supervision to a Budget Technician, Program Support Assistant (OA) and administrative support staff. Manages the incentive awards program. Carries out Equal Employment Opportunity policies and program activities. Develops indicators, monitors and compiles data collection and analysis, and corrects actions and preparation of related reports Independently develops, plans, issues and implements procedures to comply with directives concerning administrative matters. Analyzes and evaluates problems, makes recommendations, and devises solutions to systems administration, training management, publication management and data management within the division. Participates in regular meetings with leadership and other senior members to address administrative management issues, resolve problems and provide recommendations for correcting or improving processes and programs. Serves as the department Automated Data Processing Application Coordinator (ADPAC) and Contracting Officer's Representative (COR). Manages, monitors, coordinates and provides regulatory guidance on all personnel actions, organizational structures and position management for the Service. Reviews, interprets and provides recommendations for the revision of regulatory guidelines, policies and standing operating procedures pertinent to personnel administration and all Service operations. Participates in the planning for budgeting needs and financial management for Nutrition & Food Service. Attends budget calls, reviewing guidelines and instructions in order to brief managers of schedules and data requirements. Coordinate with Assistant Chief, N&FS/Food Production Manager to control purchasing and use of supplies. Reviews office needs in order to plan and develop budget data and justification for review and approval. Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Not available Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is NOT a virtual position. Selected applicant MUST physically report to the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center. Position Description/PD#: Administrative Officer/PD99863A

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/11/2023. 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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09 . 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.-AND-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-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Experience creating reports using office automation programs (such as word processing, spreadsheets, etc.) Experience maintaining and updating department or service-level databases and shared computer drives Experience with timekeeping including overtime, holiday pay, hours, leave and approving time. Experience managing and balancing financial aspects of general fund control points and purchase procedures. Experience preparing and submitting requests for recruitment, promotion, reassignment, and disciplinary actions -OR-Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, or an LL.M. in a field related to this position that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position. -OR-Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementComputer SkillsContract AdministrationManaging Human ResourcesQuality Management 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: position is mostly sedentary. 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. PHOTOS OF DEGREES DO NOT COUNT AS TRANSCRIPTS.

Note: 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. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Malcom Randall Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 1601 Southwest Archer Road Gainesville, FL 32608 US
• Name: Lauren Bianchi
• Phone: 216-447-8010 X49802
• Email: [email protected]