This position is located in the Health Administration Service (HAS) at the Tomah VA Medical Center, in Tomah, Wisconsin, and reports to the Medical Administration Officer. The primary purpose of this position is to perform overall administrative management for HAS. The position performs assignments in the areas of personnel management and administration, budgeting, and financial management, procurement, equipment and supplies, and other related areas.

Duties

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. Major duties: Regularly reviews and VA, VHA, or VISN medical center policies associated with HAS operations. Interprets administrative policies, implements local policies, and provides advice to top management on related issues. Provides input, and updates policies and procedures, including staffing plans, DSS mapping, and other requests. Manages and prepares responses to correspondence received from a variety of sources. Collects, inputs, maintains, and analyzes data from programs to include statistical information on monthly patient workload. Develops procedures and systems for establishing, operating and assessing the effectiveness of administrative control systems and programs. Provides for the budgeting and financial management. Formulates and forecasts budgetary needs for funding by analyzing data, preparing statistics, reviewing past performance, and projecting future needs in consultation with the manager. Participates with manager in reviewing office needs, plans, and goals to develop budget data and justification for review and approval. Uses computer software equivalent to Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Outlook and VISIO in order to establish, maintain, and manipulate databases, spreadsheets, track initiatives, retrieve organizational program data, create/compile reports, and produce charts and graphs to monitor project or program status. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm 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#: Administrative Officer/PD17251O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary. No physical demands are required to perform the work. Walking, standing, bending, and carrying of light items such as paper, charts, reports, and files may be necessary. Intermittent travel between campus locations maybe required.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/13/2023. 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-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. For a GS-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience GS-7: Applicants must have one (1) full year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the Administrative Officer at the GS-7 level. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-05 level in Federal service. Specialized experience related to this position includes demonstrated knowledge and experience working with software programs such as Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, as well as data analytics programs to gather pertinent data, analyze problems, identify significant factors, and recognize solutions; develop, analyze and present data to audiences; knowledge of adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to measure and improve program effectiveness and/or organizational productivity; knowledge of conducting analyses of functions and work processes; timekeeping experience; and communication and interpersonal relations skills which have demonstrated the ability to organize ideas, present findings, instruct others, and explain recommendations for process and program improvement -OR- Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience - GS-7: One (1) full year of graduate level education or superior academic achievement. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position and been obtained at an accredited college or university. Superior Academic Achievement is based on class standing, grade-point average, or honor society membership. Class Standing - Applicants must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college, university or major subdivision, such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business Administration, based on completed courses. Grade-point Average - Applicants must have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 as recorded on their official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of curriculum; or 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major filed completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum. Election to membership in a National Scholastic Honor Society - Applicants can be considered eligible based on membership in one of the national scholastic honor societies listed by the Association of College Honor Societies. NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED -OR- Combining Specialized Experience and Education - GS-7 - Equivalent combinations of experience and education are qualifying for this position. TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED. Specialized Experience GS-09: At least one (1) full year of experience equivalent to the GS-7 level. Specialized experience is defined as experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. For this position, specialized experience consists of: Experience in positions that required knowledge and skill in applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to resolve issues or problems; experience in positions that required substantive administrative support functions such as budget, finance, space planning, property management, supply and general administration management, personnel, procurement, and contracting; experience in positions that required knowledge of qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques to analyze both administrative and operational problems, and present written and oral recommendations; and working knowledge of advanced management principles, organizational theory, analytical and statistical methods, planning methodologies, budgeting and resource management. -OR- Substitution of Education for Experience GS-09: Masters or equivalent graduate degree, or successful completion of two (2) years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, or LL. B or J.D., if related and if such education demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position. Education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university, may be substituted to qualify for this grade 9, Administrative Officer position. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent one (1) year of full-time study. If that number cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours will be considered an academic year of graduate study. Part-time graduate education is creditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study at the school attended. NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED. -OR- Combination Education and ExperienceGS-09: Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate education and specialized experience directly related to the work of the Administrative Officer position, which may be substituted to meet the experience requirements of the position. For example, 6 months of appropriate specialized experience equivalent to GS-07 (50 percent of the experience requirement for GS-9) and 1 year of successfully completed graduate education (18 semester hours), as is describe above, (50 percent of the education requirement for the GS-9) would qualify for a GS-9 position. NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementAnalytical ReasoningBudget AdministrationPlanning and Evaluating 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. 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.

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 Tomah VA Medical Center 500 East Veterans Street Tomah, WI 54660 US
• Name: Joseph Tourek
• Email: [email protected]