The Dayton, Ohio Veterans Affairs Medical Center is recruiting for a well-qualified Supervisory Transportation Assistant (STA). The STA serves as a full-time Supervisory Mobility Transportation for Patient Business Service (PBS) with direct accountability to the Supervisory Mobility Manager, Veterans Transportation Service (VTS) and Beneficiary Travel Departments, Ambulatory Care and Processing Section.

Duties

Duties include, but are not limited to: supervising transportation coordinators, travel clerks, and drivers. overseeing and managing overall planning, direction of VTS staff. determining program effectiveness leave approving, performance standards writing, annual performance appraisal writing, disciplining and rewarding employees developing operating procedures and schedules; training, assigning, and coordinating work establishing priorities, schedules, and deadlines for routine and special work assignments, and monitoring work performed ensuring employees have completed mandatory training giving advice, counsel, and instruction to individual employees on administrative matters interviewing, recommending, and disciplining employees identifying developmental and training needs applying and implementing equal employment opportunities initiating nondiscriminatory practices and affirmative action ensuring maximum and efficient utilization of personnel, reductions in cost, elimination of waste and overlapping of services, improvement of operations, and development of goals serving as primary point of contact for beneficiary travel program and VTS oversight. monitoring expenditures and workload against budget plan, advising management on how to meet targets developing budget estimates preparing, reviewing, and presenting variety of reports related to status of funds, workload, and expenditures. determining method of payment for claims submitted for consideration investigates authorizations and orders resolving vendor, payment, and reject issues. overseeing and arranging all modes of transportation. coordinating appellant hearings processing appeals preparing certifications of appeal reviewing and certifying invoices, generating purchase requests, procurement packages working with contractors and provide technical direction and guidance Work Schedule: 0730 to 1600, Monday through Friday Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Transportation Assistant/PD917370 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): 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, 01/11/2024. 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-08 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. 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. 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-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: The work requires the knowledge of a various transportation regulations or operations to monitor and report on carrier compliance with contract terms, safety provisions, or other transportation programs, and exercises considerable independent judgment recommendations and solutions to problems and proceeds independently in planning and carrying out regularly assigned budgetary duties with timeframes dictated by existing VA and OMB guidelines. Deadlines for completion of special projects will be provided by supervisor within the supervisory chain. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementCritical ThinkingPerformance ManagementTechnical CompetenceTechnical CredibilityVeteran and Customer Focus 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: The work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required such as periods of standing and walking. In addition, some lifting, and stretching is done when working with files, spreadsheets, supplies, etc. 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

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address Dayton VA Medical Center 4100 West Third Street Dayton, OH 45428 US
• Name: Sage Artemis
• Email: [email protected]