Supervisory Telephone Operator

Veterans Health Administration - Department of Veterans Affairs

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/28/2024. 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 by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. 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. Note: 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: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS 06 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: thorough knowledge of large and frequently changing organizations with complex subdivisions to direct incoming calls; skilled in dealing calmly and courteously with people who are extremely upset or irate and skill in questioning callers, who often can provide only sketchy information, in order to direct them to the proper organizational component, are required; knowledge of alternative routing options and procedures to make efficient outgoing connections and to connect high priority or emergency calls when ordinary methods fail; knowledge of the capabilities of the telephone system and skilled in the procedures necessary to connect a number of parties on one or both ends of complicated conference calls, and to arrange two-party or conference calls by appointment. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Accountability Decision Making Education and Training Organizational Awareness Performance Measurement 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: Employee is continually required to move about the work area in order to make contacts and perform the duties of the position. The work is sedentary in nature in an office environment, most duties can be accomplished from a sitting position. Some stooping, bending, lifting, walking, and standing as required. Safety precautions will be always followed. is responsible for substantial amount of workload carried out in different locations outside the main unit.
The Superivsory Telephone Operator will provide guidance for approximately twelve (12) administrative staff members. Keeps Deputy Chief of Ambulatory Care & Processing, or designee of Health Administration fully informed of personnel staffing problems such as anticipated vacancies, significant workload changes or other circumstances that require rotation of/or additional staff. Incumbent maintains training records of employees within their scope of supervision.

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