Administrative Officer (Nursing, Clinical Operations)

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/06/2023. 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-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7. 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. Examples of appropriate SF-50s include: Within grade increases at the highest grade held; or Promotions with an effective date more than one year old; or SF-50s at the highest grade held with an effective date more than one year old. In addition to meeting the time-in-grade requirement, applicants must also meet one of the following: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-7 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as: Assisting in overall management for the organization. Distributing of information and communication, memo creation, records management, publication, and forms. Ensuring inquiries, correspondence and actions for area of responsibility are addressed appropriately. Implementing administrative policies. Providing administrative planning and oversight for a variety of clinical programs and initiatives. Ensuring survey readiness and compliance with VA initiative and accreditation bodies such as The Joint Commission, OIG, Long-Term Care Institute. Collecting and providing data reports for data-driven decision making to include reports of overtime usage and budget projections. **The preferred candidate would also have experience with spreadsheets, excel, or related programming. OR EDUCATION: 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 (Transcript MUST be provided) OR COMBINATION: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9. You must have a combination of specialized experience and education beyond 1 full year of graduate level education. (Transcript MUST be provided) You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and Management Communications Contracting/Procurement Financial Management Human Resources Management 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: The work is sedentary. It occasionally requires carrying of light objects such as files, books and papers; some walking, standing and bending. No special physical qualifications are required. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management’s website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.
The Administrative Officer performs administrative functions that include human resources management, budget and finance, management analysis, office support services, document control, logistics, COR duties, and related administrative matters in support of the Chief Nurse(s) in Clinical Operations.