Administrative Officer

This position is located in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service (PM&RS) at the Salem VA Medical Center. This service provides comprehensive rehabilitative care to a varied patient population. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/02/2026.

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‑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 that 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.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS‑9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS‑9 level in the Federal service that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of an Administrative Officer position.

• Applies specialized principles and practices of health care management;
• Oversight of hiring, budgeting and contracting;
• Initiate and manage projects;
• Skill in the use of computer equipment with a wide variety of software such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Access—to extract and organize data, produce letters, memorandums, and to prepare a variety of specific working documents and forms such as spreadsheets, database, word processing, desktop publishing, graphics and other similar products.

Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position.

Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and education beyond the first two years or 36 semester hours and specialized experience to meet total experience requirements.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..