Job opening: Administrative Officer
Salary: $60 905 - 79 176 per year
Published at: Aug 02 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position serves as the Administrative Officer for the Emergency Department within the VA Health Care System with administrative responsibility, accountability and oversight for the Emergency Department programs and activities.
Duties
KCVA is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.
Major duties and responsibilities include:
Administrative Management: provides overall administrative management for the service; interprets administrative policies, develops local policies and defines administrative requirements; provides advice to supervisors; monitors performance and suspense actions; monitors training completion and accomplishments of all staff; coordinates security clearances and access for visitors and contractors as necessary;
Human Resources/Personnel Management: oversees all aspects of human resources requirements; provides advice pertaining to the procedures, laws, regulations and policies dealing with recruitment, employee/labor relations, training and other human resource functions; prepares and reviews position descriptions to ensure accuracy and adequacy; tracks current and projected personnel actions; completes and reviews reports and identifies deficiencies or discrepancies; ensures performance ratings are completed and submitted accordingly;
Budget/Fiscal: manages budget formulation and execution for a changing budget of administrative expenses; serves as a purchase card holder and approving official for equipment and commodities procured; prepares budget estimates and identifies changes as needed;
Space Planning, Property Management, Procurement and Supply Administration: acts as the Contracting Officer Representative for multiple short and long term service contracts; prepares procurement request and evaluates proposals for work; maintains records; establishes and oversees procedures for the receipt, review and follow-up on requisitions for purchases; responsible for space request and coordinates movements with other offices when necessary; ensures the service is adequately stocked with office supplies;
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Administrative Officer/PD099340
Functional Statement #: PD099340
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Not
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/14/2024.
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: Providing policy guidance and direction including interpreting agency regulations, coordinating policies and procedures covering internal operations, and provide advice on resolving problems; Using and analyzing data to make service level decisions on clinic/resource management; Providing guidance on budget and finance issues through managing the budget projections, formulations and execution for service expenses through fund control points; Working in a health care setting using administrative and supervisory skills to assist leadership in the operation of the designated service; managing a service's time and attendance. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have:
To qualify based on education for this grade level you must possess a master's or equivalent graduate degree OR,
Completed 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR,
Possess a LL.M, if related. Transcripts must be provided to verify education..
OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond the next lower grade requirement.
You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
Administration and Management
Clerical
Computer Skills
Contracting/Procurement
Managing Human Resources
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, but occasional standing, walking, stooping, bending and carrying items weighing 25 pounds maybe required. Assignments may occasionally involve longer periods of standing, bending and stooping to observe and facilitate group projects or activities.
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 Kansas City VA Medical Center
4801 Linwood Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64128
US
- Name: Brody Hillstock
- Phone: 9136839559
- Email: [email protected]
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