The position is at the full performance level located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), in the Support Services Division at the Philadelphia VA Regional Office. The primary purpose of the position is to perform an array of duties required to ensure sound waiver decisions, correct finance processing, and compliance with financial policy.

Duties

An integral element of the FQRS's duties include providing expect assistance to finance employees, especially in difficult or unusual cases. The FQRS is fully accountable for all waiver and finance decisions rendered across a wide variety of federal benefits including: Compensation for service-connected disability, including eligibility to special monthly compensation. Nonservice-connected pension entitlement, including eligibility to special monthly pension. Dependency and indemnity compensation and death compensation for surviving spouses and dependents of Veterans where death is determined to have been due to service. Death pension for surviving spouses and dependents of certain wartime veteran having a service-connected disability. Compensation and pension for children found permanently incapable of self-support prior to their 18th birthday. Educational benefits to Veterans, surviving spouses, and dependents pertaining to Chapter 35 entitlement as it relates to the compensation and pension program. Entitlement to Vocational Rehabilitation benefits as it pertains to compensation and pension program. Special Adaptive Housing entitlements for Veterans entitled based on their rating decision. Attorney Fee payments for claimants with an authorized Attorney Fee agreement. Performance of complex audits of benefits for compensation and pension benefit programs. Payment tracing, review, and reconciliation with the US Treasury Department. Entitlement to Vocational Rehabilitation with service-connected disabilities.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Selectees are subject to a background/suitability investigation
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A probationary period may be required for employees and supervisors

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/03/2024. Time-in-grade: 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. To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). 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 also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50's and/or General Adjustment SF-50's as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the federal service. In addition to meeting the basic requirements, you must have 1 year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility. Specialized experience is defined as administration and oversite of fiscal programs that include the payment for general operating expenditures and payments. Additionally, candidates must show experience in two of the following areas to be considered: Administering an agency benefits payment program. Confidential Information Safeguard Experience in the functional aspects of the finance section to include completion of financial statements, cost reports, and balance sheets. Maintaining an organization budget for staff expenditures. Providing accounting analysis and advice to senior management officials. **Official and/or Unofficial Transcripts and/or Certifications that demonstrate you meet the education and/or professional actuary association requirements listed in the Individual Occupational Requirement (Basic Requirement) MUST be submitted at the time of application in order to verify that applicants meet the Individual Occupational Requirement. Applicants without documentation that verifies this education and/or professional actuary association requirements will not receive credit and will be determined ineligible and not qualified. **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.

Education

There is no educational substitution for the GS-12 level.

Contacts

• Address Philadelphia VBA Regional Office 5000 Wissahickon Ave Philadelphia, PA 19144 US
• Name: Ayesha Kelly
• Phone: 726-209-4429
• Email: [email protected]