This position is located at the National Cemetery Administration and may be located in St. Louis, MO or Washington, DC.

Duties

This is a bargaining unit position. This position is represented by AFGE. Please note that as provided for in the AFGE/VA Master Agreement the FIRST area of consideration for this position will be permanent employees of the local facility in which this position is being filled, the SECOND area of consideration will be employees at other VA facilities, and the THIRD area of consideration will be all other eligibles. The incumbent serves as the primary contact for all matters concerning information technology and NCA. Responsible for providing the necessary inputs to allow the BTRS staff to develop applications and products which directly support the Administration's mission and goals and interests in all information technology forums. Incumbent is responsible for analyzing the business needs of their clients and stakeholders to help identify business problems and propose solutions. Activities include gathering, analyzing, documenting, and presenting information in support of business cases, proposed projects, and technology requirements. This position requires explicit translation of multiple perspectives into requirements identification, elaboration, grooming, organization, tracking, prioritization, and specification with continued dialogue with NGA stakeholders. The incumbent will: - Assess alignment between proposed NCA projects and VA vision, mission, goals, business objectives, and service objectives. - Determine the appropriate application of information technologies with emphasis on integration, interoperability, platform independence and technological agility. - Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver necessary artifacts, such as business requirement documents, use cases, generic user interface (GUI), and screen and interface designs. - Serve as the conduit between the business client(s) (internal and external customers) and OIT to submit and track requirements and report operational issues. - Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. - Understand the Business as-is state and its applications, with constraints and governance by existing processes and policies while evaluating the potential to-be state of systems, applications and the downstream impacts to business processes, policies, resource allocations, and other affected activities to drive more informed planning and development activities. - Represent NCA and VA governance boards, committees, and work groups to ensure all decisions reflect NCA interests. Work schedule: Required to work Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. May include occasional weekends. Due to the mission of the National Cemetery, the cemetery cannot be closed for more than 2 consecutive days at any given time. Additionally, when a Federal holiday falls on a Monday or Friday, staff may be required to work on that holiday or a Saturday. All staff is required to work Memorial Day and Veteran's Day each year. Staff will be required to work overtime, weekends and holidays when necessary to meet the needs of the cemetery. Occasionally staff may be called back to the facility to perform emergency overtime work. Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Not Available Telework: Available Position Description Title/PD#: Program and Project Manager/PD1573500 The full performance level of this position is GS - 13. Relocation Expenses: Not Authorized Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

• Subject to a background/security investigation.
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• You may be required to serve a probationary period.
• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all specialized experience and time in grade requirements within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement, 03/22/2024. 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 within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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 your most recent non-award 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 non-award SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one year time-in-grade. 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 experience, as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: service in an advisory role to senior management, a thorough knowledge of concepts and trends in management, skill in oral and written communication, exceptional multi-tasking and organizational skills, mastery of qualitative and quantitative methods and data management and analysis to assess and improve technical program effectiveness. CommunicationCritical ThinkingCustomer ServiceData ManagementInformation Technology Program ManagementProblem SolvingProject ManagementWriting 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: Work is primarily sedentary and performed in an office environment. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address National Cemetery Administration 810 Vermont Avenue NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: NCA Human Resources Center
• Phone: (317)916-3660
• Email: [email protected]