Program Support Assistant

Summary

This position is organizationally aligned to the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PLM) Product Line, at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL. The incumbent provides administrative support to PLM management to help achieve the product line's goal of continuous high-quality laboratory testing and customer service.

Duties

Duties include, but not limited to: Serves as the primary timekeeper and maintains time and attendance records for the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine service. Serves as the primary collector to collect and process preemployment or current employees for random, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, or safe harbor urine drug screen collection, confirming donor identity and completing chain of custody forms. Prepare packages and ships specimens to testing laboratory and delivers forms. Management of specimen inventory from collection materials (shipping bags, collection cups, bluing tablets, forms (chain of custody forms and VA Form 10-5345) and envelopes. Serve as a purchase card holder to support referral testing and equipment service needs; complies with Federal, VA and local acquisition regulations. Enters and edits data as the TMS coordinator to record the required continuing education and training activities of all service staff; prepares education and training reports as requested for administrative and supervisory personnel. Serves as the delegated Equipment Inventory Listings (EIL) Custodial Officer responsibilities for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service. Assist with locating/scanning inventoried equipment. Process electronic and manual turn-in requests for equipment. Submit Engineering work orders as requested for PLMS. Assist with installation, configuration, and operation of remote equipment temperature monitoring systems for PLMS. Serves as a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Sponsor for PLMS employees; notifies current and new staff of requirements for obtaining PIV card. Serves as PLMCGE Concur Travel super user. Arrange travel, prepare necessary documents required for travel purposes and routes for approval and signatures. Prepare, compile, and file administrative reports for management (DFWP records and Timekeeping records). Work Schedule: Fulltime: Monday - Friday 7:00am - 3:30PM Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: 170300 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized. PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, .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-04 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed education above the high school level in any field for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite is creditable at grades GS-3 through GS-5, which is 4 years above high school. 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. Preferred Experience: Performing Timekeeping. Urine Specimen Collection. 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/.