Description:
The Primary Purpose of the Position is to serve in the capacity as a Management Assistant to the Chief of Medicine Service, the Administrative Officer, and Supervisory Management Analyst and support the day to day operations of their assigned section(s) as well as the Medicine Service in general. The Organizational Location of the Position is Medicine Service, South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS), San Antonio, TX.Requirements:
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/09/2026.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 by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-6 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-5. 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 as described below:
- Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-5 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: knowledge of management principles and processes as well as the ability to analyze and evaluate methods and techniques; knowledge of the basic skills and understanding of the methods and techniques of management analysis and/or program analysis; extensive knowledge of medical management practices and/or medical programs, guidelines, regulations and precedents; and ability to apply basic data gathering methods, such as collecting various types of factual information from an array of computer programs, reports and documents, as well as, the ability to analyze such information; ability to analyze financial reports.
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 mainly sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there is also daily walking, standing, bending, carrying of light items such as papers, books and small objects.
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/ .
Jan 30, 2026;
from:
usajobs.gov