Department: Department of Veterans Affairs
Location(s): Jacksonville, North Carolina
Salary Range: $61722 - $97087 Per Year
Job Summary: This position is located within the Department of Veterans Affairs , Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Veterans Integrated Service Network 6, at the Jacksonville CBOC in Jacksonville, North Carolina, within the Outpatient Ambulatory Care Section of the Health Administration Service (HAS). This position serves as the Section Chief for the Scheduling Operations (Coastal Division) within Outpatient Ambulatory Care Section. This position reports directly to the Business Operations Manager.
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Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. Current VISN 6 Employee Only Grade Determinations:GS-09 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. Examples of specialized experience include but are not limited to: gathering information, identifying and analyzing issues, developing recommendations to resolve substantive problems of effectiveness and efficiency of work operations in a program or program support setting; the incumbent's knowledge requires skill in applying analytical and evaluative techniques to issues of a procedural nature which are readily observable and subject to written guidelines. Work requires knowledge of service operations to manage recurring and ongoing training needs and to resolve individual performance measures. At this level, the incumbent deals with daily operational issues and does not analyze or evaluate overall operations, major issues, goals, and objectives. The work involves applying established methods to system application problems and referring problems not resolvable at the user end. GS-11 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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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. Examples of specialized experience include but are not limited to: gathering information, identifying and analyzing issues, developing recommendations to resolve substantive problems of effectiveness and efficiency of work operations in a program or program support setting, application of qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques that frequently require modification to fit a wider range of variables; responsible for providing a high level of administrative support to the health administration service, upper management, and other clinical services. This includes/involves: the provision of supervision and oversight to an officially established subordinate work unit of Lead/Advanced Medical Support Assistants; the management of programs related to Outpatient Administrative Support (e.g., medical support staff for Scheduling Operations (Coastal) for Primary Care, Behavioral Health, and Specialty Care clinics etc.); by performing various administrative duties/functions related to the health administration services and its services/programs. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and Management Communications Computer Skills Customer Service Technical Competence Veteran and Customer Focus 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. Preferred Experience: ???????Supervisory experience required The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-11. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is in the range of GS-09 to GS-11 to Physical Requirements: The work of this position is primarily performed in a normal office/clinical setting. The work areas are adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated. This position may require occasional travel. Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.
How to Apply: All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 03/12/2026 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12899625. To begin, click Apply Online to create a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupational questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your application package. NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the closing date. Beginning September 27, 2025-Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at: https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/merit-hiring-plan-resources/applicant-guidance-on-the-two-page-resume-limit/
Application Deadline: 2026-03-12