Administrative Officer

Position Overview

This position serves as the Administrative Officer within the Nursing, Ambulatory Care service at the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center and is responsible for the administrative oversight of primary care nursing services for the medical center and outpatient/telehealth clinics.

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-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-9. 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. 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.

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of management principles, practices, methods, techniques and skills in integrating management services with the organization's general manager;
• Knowledge and skill in applying analytical techniques and evaluative methods to issues or studies concerning all administrative and related managers to improve efficiency and effectiveness;
• Knowledge and understanding of personnel management principles and practices, organizational structure, staffing position management, workforce utilization and training issues;
• Thorough knowledge of the methods and procedures, mission requirements, program goals and objectives, regulations, pertinent laws, policies and the price is governing the organization's administrative operations;
• Skill in planning, scheduling and conducting projects and studies to evaluate and recommend ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of work operations, adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria;
• Skill in developing new or modified work methods, organizational structures, records and files, management processes, staffing patterns, procedures for administering program services, guidelines and practices, and automating work processes to conduct administrative support functions or program operations;
• Broad knowledge in applying the principles, practices and methods of budget execution to determine whether obligations, expenditures and requested allotments are within funding limitations in the approved budget.

Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a 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.

Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and education beyond the graduate level (more than the first year or 18 semester hours) and specialized experience to meet total experience requirements.