This Administrative Officer position is located in Digital Health Service at the VA Connecticut Health Care System, West Haven Campus. This position is full time at 40 hours per week.
Duties include but are not limited to: Serves as the personnel management expert for DHS, performing or overseeing the full range of human resources requirements. Makes recommendations relating to various personnel policy issues and advises the Program Administrative Chief on personnel management matters and problems for clinical and administrative staff.
Coordinates activities and performs analytical trending and evaluative work associated with Digital Health such as consults, authorizations, payments, VSSC, Community Care Contracts. Provides guidance to administrative employees, including the Program Support and Medical Support positions for both clinical and administrative programs.
Provides input for annual performance appraisals and provides ongoing guidance and oversight for day-to-day administrative operations of the Programs. Acts as the liaison with Human Resource Management System (HRMS) in areas of personnel recruiting, promotion, training, equal opportunity employment, disciplinary action, performance evaluation, terminations, reassignments, and all other human resources related matters.
Provides advice and assistance to supervisors, managers and staff concerning federal and agency personnel processes and procedures by interpreting human resources regulatory, policy, and procedural requirements. Manages the procurement and contracting for the DHS Programs. This may include preparing procurement requests, evaluating proposals for work, acting as COTR for procurements, and/or maintaining procurement and contracting records.
Manages contracting and procurement for small procurements that require varying approaches. Initiates and prepares contracts to secure adequate resources to facilitate operations to include determining appropriate costs, performing cost analysis, soliciting bids, writing sole source justifications, and communicating both orally and in writing with contractors.
Prepares and reviews purchase order for supplies and nonexpendable property such as equipment, to include personal computer hardware and software and other specialized equipment necessary to the effective functioning of DHS. Exercises authorizations for obligation and expenditures of funds. Monitors and manages DHS equipment, space and supplies.
Performs and/or manages equipment annual inventories, ensures preparation of necessary paperwork to tum in unnecessary equipment, report missing equipment or request replacement/additional equipment as necessary to maintain efficient and safe functioning of theDHS Program.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible Work Schedule: Not Authorized Telework/Virtual/Remote Work: Authorized Position Description/PD#:Administrative Officer/PD689-04098-O Relocation or Travel Incentives: Not Authorized Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience. Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66. Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions. by VA.
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement). Notifications: This position is not a Bargaining Unit position. Selectee may be required to work at any VA Connecticut Healthcare System campus, as needed. May be required to attend conference at other facilities or other VA sites on occasion. The incumbent may be required to travel to other VA campuses and CBOC's.
Selectee may be required to work at any VISN 1 Healthcare System campus, as needed. Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held. This position is in the Competitive Service.
Time-in-Grade Restriction: 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. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service. Veterans' preference does not apply for other current permanent Federal agency employees.
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/. Graduate Education: Education at the graduate level in an accredited college or university meets the requirements for positions in this occupational series at GS-7 through GS-11.
Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement.
Part-time graduate education is creditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study at the school attended.
Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages.
The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade 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 and GS-11.
(When crediting education that requires specific course work, prorate the number of hours of related courses required as a proportion of the total education to be used.) The following are examples of how education and experience may be combined. They are examples only, and are not all-inclusive. The position to be filled is an Administrative Officer, GS-0341-09. An applicant has 6 months of specialized experience equivalent to GS-7 and 1 year of graduate level education.
The applicant meets 50 percent of the required experience but none of the required education, since he or she does not have any graduate study beyond that which is required for GS-7. Therefore, the applicant meets only 50 percent of the total requirement and is not qualified for the position. (The applicant's first year of graduate study is not qualifying for GS-9.) The position to be filled is an Administrative Officer, GS-0341-11.
An applicant has 9 months of specialized experience equivalent to GS-9 and 2 1/2 years of creditable graduate level education in business or public administration. The applicant meets 75 percent of the required experience and 50 percent of the required education, i.e., the applicant has 1/2 year of graduate study beyond that required for GS-9. Therefore, the applicant exceeds the total requirement and is qualified for the position.
(The applicant's first 2 years of graduate study are not qualifying for GS-11.)
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EDWARD.FORD2@VA.GOV · 203 626-1806
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $72737 – $94563/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-11-19.
This position is open under the 'Fed Competitive' hiring path.
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