Program Specialist

Summary

This position is under the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) to provide health-related services to Veterans with a focus on complex problems resulting from deployment. The position serves as a primary contact for informational needs and services to a broad range of customers, including senior management, program directors, and central office managers in terms of analyzing, planning, developing informational needs through programming, data mining, and data warehouses.

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to: Handle administrative matters independently, prioritizing the work to assure that deadlines are met. Prepares appropriate responses for the signature of the WRIISC Director on routine matters. Responsible for oversight and updates of WRIISC-WOMEN policies and SOPs. Responsible for coordinating building maintenance and other required services with engineering for WRIISC. Maintains oversight and processes incoming and outgoing materials such as correspondence, reports, memorandum and requests for computer access. Assists in personnel management for WRIISC, performing or overseeing the full range of human resources requirements. Coordinates personnel actions related to recruitment, salary adjustments, terminations; deals with the Medical Staff office concerning credentialing and privileging issues, as well as assists the Program Officer in maintaining the personnel folders for employees. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Program Specialist/PD00249A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/22/2026. 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-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. 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-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: maintaining oversight and processing incoming and outgoing materials such as correspondence, reports, memorandum and requests for computer access. Coordinating with sections and other services for input and completion and edits and composes letters and reports, and reviews correspondence for accuracy and completeness. Helps coordinate appointments, meetings, conference and distributes related information. Drafts the meeting minutes as required and interprets administrative policies, developing or implementing local policies, defining administrative requirements, and/or providing advice to management on related issues.. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed 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 . OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond graduate education. 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/.

Education

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/.