Job opening: Program Specialist - Physical Medicine & Rehab
Salary: $62 574 - 81 345 per year
Published at: Feb 07 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The incumbent reviews the daily clinic practice outcomes and attributes of operations with the Lead Medical Support Assistant, the Administrative Officer, and the Chief, PMRS. Through interaction with the administrative staff, certifies the efficient functioning of scheduling processes and administrative tasks through analytics and observation to facilitate reduction in missed opportunities, timely processing of consults, monitoring clinic access and availability, and troubleshooting issues.
Duties
Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/21/2024.
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-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. 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: skill in applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to issues or studies of the efficiency and effectiveness of program operations; provide administrative support functions such as supply, budget, procurement, clerical duties, customer service, and personnel activities within an organization; maintaining and monitoring data and making recommendations based on analysis of data; maintaining computerized databases or information tracking systems; and using computer systems or applications to access, create, edit, or retrieve data.
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Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related. 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. NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED.
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Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond graduate specialized experience directly related to the work of the Program Specialist 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:
AccountabilityAnalytical ThinkingChange ManagementCommunicationsInterpersonal Skills
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 mostly sedentary. The work requires some walking, standing, bending, lifting and carrying light items such as paper, books, and charts.
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:
https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Contacts
- Address Durham VA Medical Center
508 Fulton Street
Durham, NC 27705
US
- Name: Natasha Bridge
- Phone: 804-854-2579
- Email: [email protected]
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