Program Support Assistant

This position is located within Readjustment Counseling Service, and its primary purpose is to provide administrative and clerical support to a multi-disciplinary team providing counseling services to veterans with readjustment problems. By virtue of the mission of the Vet Center, the incumbent is the only administrative person located on site thus becoming responsible for many of the administrative, fiscal, and supply support functions for the Vet Center team.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/17/2026. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: CTAP is designed to improve your chances of finding a new job in your agency through selection priority. To receive selection priority, you must:
Be "surplus" or "displaced";
Have a current performance rating of at least "fully successful" (Level III) or equivalent;
Occupy a position in the same local commuting area of the vacancy;
Apply for a specific vacancy at or below your current grade level with no greater promotion potential than your current position;
Meet the Final date to receive applications in the announcement; and Be found "well qualified" for the job. You are "surplus" if you:
Are in the competitive service;
Are in tenure group I (career) or tenure group II (career-conditional); and Have an official notice from your agency saying that your position is no longer needed. This notice could be: a "Certificate of Expected Separation" (CES); an agency certification that you are in a surplus organization or occupation; a notice that your position is being abolished; or a letter saying you are eligible for discontinued service retirement.

You are "displaced" if you:
Are in the competitive service;
Are in tenure group I (career) or tenure group II (career-conditional); and Have an official notice from your agency saying you will be separated by reduction in force. This notice could be: a specific reduction in force separation notice; or a notice of proposed removal because you declined a directed reassignment or transfer of function out of the local commuting area.

You are generally NOT eligible for selection priority if you are:
In the excepted service;
Downgraded or reassigned due to reduction in force, but not separated;
In a different local commuting area from the vacancy;
In a temporary or term position in the competitive service;
In an agency that is not in the Executive branch;
In an agency that does not follow OPM hiring procedures (this includes Postal Service, legislative and judicial branch agencies); or In the Senior Executive Service (SES). For additional information on CTAP, see https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

For CTAP eligibility, an applicant's selection priority applies when the vacancy:
Is at a grade or pay level with a representative rate no higher than the representative rate of the grade or pay level of the CTAP eligible's permanent position of record;
Has no greater promotion potential than the CTAP eligible's permanent position of record;
Is in the same local commuting area as the CTAP eligible's permanent position of record;
Is filled during the CTAP eligible's eligibility period; and, if applicable, Is filled under the same excepted appointing authority as the CTAP eligible's permanent position of record if the CTAP eligible is an excepted service employee and the agency CTAP provides selection priority in the excepted service.

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…