The position serves as a Specially Adapted Housing Coordinator (SAHC). The SAHC will perform an array of oversight and team lead duties with the purpose of overseeing a diverse portfolio of construction projects from proposal through completion related to the Specially Adapted Housing/Special Home Adaptation (SHA) program, Veteran Readiness & Employment (VR&E) home adaptations and the Loan Guaranty (LGY) program.

Duties

Specific duties include: Performs all actions to initiate Veteran SAH rating reviews. This will entail development, follow up, and coordination with Veteran, Veterans Service Center, and other stakeholders to ensure Veterans are appropriately adjudicated for the SAH benefit. Responsible for reviewing proposed, under construction, and completed projects and properties across a multi-state jurisdiction to include varying designs, construction materials, labor conditions, economic conditions, and building codes in which all contribute to accurately evaluating construction proposals. Manages construction disbursement schedules and ensures timely delivery of payment to stakeholders for successfully completed construction phases. Reconciles Veterans'/contractors' concerns and assures that all parties are informed of project progress, issues, and impacts. Responsible for tracking, monitoring, and reporting to management as necessary all construction complaints or concerns encountered. Establishes and maintains complete and accurate records for work products and tasks tracked in and outside of VA systems. The incumbent is able to create reporting and tracking mechanisms for ad-hoc requests, assignments, and workload that are not captured by VA systems due to constantly changing and evolving nature of the SAH program. Monitors the quantity, quality and timeliness of work, providing guidance and training to staff appraisers and program assistant. The incumbent initiates necessary coordination with technical experts, financial staff, attorneys, other VA staff, the Veteran, contractor and stakeholders. As appropriate, meets with supervisor to discuss controversial or sensitive issues. The incumbent is customer service oriented and provides courteous, accurate and technically sound assistance to program participants. This may be accomplished through written correspondence, telephone, or personal contacts. The incumbent must convey requested information in ways that are best and easily understood by the numerous and diverse group of stakeholders. Work Schedule: Full time, 8:00am to 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Construction Analyst (SAH Coordinator); 39155-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required This is a bargaining position.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:10/07/2024. 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. 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. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11 level. INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT: This position has an IOR (Individual Occupational Requirement) that must be met in addition to the Time-in-Grade and regular Specialized Experience qualifications. In order to qualify for this position, you must have the education or experience listed below: Specialized Experience: Experience in the preparation or review of plans, specifications, or estimates of materials and costs for the construction, extension, alteration, or repair of buildings. Applicants should have knowledge of the residential construction field, and experience in the development of plans and specifications, and in negotiation work. This experience may have been obtained working as a contractor or as a draftsperson in an architectural engineering firm. However, any drafting experience must have provided an opportunity to acquire technical knowledge. Appropriate experience includes working with diverse construction materials (brick, lumber, reinforced concrete, steel) and types of structures (housing, single-family dwellings and multi-family apartment units, and industrial and commercial structures). Applicants should be familiar with matters such as planning a subdivision, laying out traffic flow in a multi-family apartment structure, or working out specification problems in plans. OR Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- architecture, engineering, building construction, or other fields related to the position. AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-12 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: For the GS-12 you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as experience preparing construction and disbursement schedules, reviewing applications to determine financial and medical feasibility, conducting interviews regarding grant programs with eligible participants and their representatives and conducting field reviews to determine suitability of proposed projects. Volunteer Experience: 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. Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week. Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary with most travel by automobile, air, or other public transportation. The position requires frequent scheduled field trips in a Government vehicle throughout the assigned geographic jurisdiction. The work requires some physical exertion, such as long periods of standing, walking over rough, uneven, rocky or slippery surfaces; recurrent bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, climbing, or similar activities; recurring lifting of light to moderately heavy items weighing less than 25 pounds such as testing or measuring equipment; and/or regular visits to construction or property sites. In addition, the position requires frequent periods of communication by phone, email and in-person with a diverse group of stakeholders. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to be credited towards qualifications. Provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
All education claimed by applicants will be verified upon appointment. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript to receive credit.

Contacts

• Address Atlanta Regional Benefit Office 1700 Clairmont Rd Decatur, GA 30033 US
• Name: Monique Robertson
• Phone: 4102304400 X2501
• Email: [email protected]