Staff Assistant

This position serves as a Staff Assistant in the Director's Office of the Columbia Regional Office, Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). The position provides a wide variety of administrative tasks associated with the administration of VBA's various business line programs of benefits and services as well as the Regional Office responsibilities for internal controls and program administration.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:08/27/2026. 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. For a GS-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. If you are a current VBA employee requesting a reassignment or change to lower grade via this vacancy announcement, you must currently hold the GS- 11 (or higher) and the promotion potential of your current position must be at least GS-11.

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.

To qualify for the Staff Assistant position, applicants must meet either the specialized experience and/or educational requirements below (

Note:

Requires transcripts if basing all or part of qualifications on education). GS-09 Level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level. In addition to the experience required at the GS-7 grade level, Specialized experience for the GS-9 is defined as completing projects using automated data processing and information management programs and recommending changes in administrative policies/procedures to facilitate the flow of paperwork.

OR Education substitution of a master's or equivalent graduate degree of 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B or J.D., if related (transcripts required); OR Combination of specialized experience as described in "1" and GRADUATE education as described in "2" which totals at least one year. [To compute, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12.

Then divide your semester hours of graduate education by 18. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100% to qualify.] A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, Ameri Corps) 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-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.

Work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..