Supervisory Training Specialist

Supervisory Training Specialist

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Tuskegee, Alabama

Salary Range: $89508 - $116362 Per Year

Job Summary: Education Service partners with all medical center services, VHA program offices, Veterans Integrated Service Network, universities, other medical facilities, and community programs to provide quality workforce education and training to improve outcomes in Veteran clincal care, academic affiliations and health care operations and administration.

Major Duties:

• Major duties include but not limited to: Serves as Supervisory Education and Training Specialist for the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS), and reports to the Chief/Associate Chief of Staff (ACOS) Education service. Responsible for the administrative and supervisory functions in the Education Service and serves as the facility's Designated Learning Officer (DLO). Plans, develops, and presents training curriculum to all levels of staff. Serves as the liaison between the facility, the VISN and the VHA Institute for Learning, Education and Development (ILEAD) program. Oversees all workforce development, training, and education initiatives at CAVHCS and training programs assigned by VISN7 and VA Central Office. Provides oversight and management of programs such as new employee orientation, succession planning initiatives, organizational development coaching and mentoring, and Talent Management System (TMS). Provides guidance and advice on the implementation of education, cultural, or change programs, projects and/or activities. Coordinates educational program, projects, and activities such as meetings, conferences, information gathering, and negotiations. Advises, counsels employees. Identifies and manages staffing needs for the service. Conducts surveys of educational training needs. Develops appropriate system and learning interventions to lead and facilitate organizational development activities. Studies organizational systems and designs. Serves as a member and attends the facility leadership council, system redesign committee, and the VISN Employee Education (ILEAD), DLO and TMS committees. Provides information concerning available training, arranges for instruction, prepares reports, and facilitates courses. Serves as a resource for information on VA scholarships, tuition assistance, student internship, and professional development programs. Provides supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Hears and resolves employee complaints. Identifies developmental needs. Approves leave. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am-4:30pm. Work schedule subject to change based on agency needs. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Training Specialist/PD110430 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, 03/18/2026. 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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. 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. INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT (IOR): An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can't be waived. To qualify for the GS 1712 occupational series applicants must meet one of the following Individual Occupational Requirements: Education: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- education or a subject area related to the position to be filled. OR Specialized Experience: Experience that demonstrated a practical knowledge of the subject areas of the position and of the methods and techniques of instruction. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include; Teaching or instructing in an adult education program, secondary school, college, military installation or industrial establishment in the appropriate field(s). Supervising or administering a training program. Development or review of training/course materials, aids, devices, etc. and evaluation of training results. Work in the occupation or subject-matter field of the position to be filled that required training or instructing others on a regular basis. In addition to the above IOR, 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-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: ability to use a wide range of developing course materials for training programs; performing program support work such as the collection, compilation, research, and/or tracking of data and program information related to different training; working collaboratively with the instructor to develop and establish the minimum standards by which education programs and/or projects will be evaluated; and preparing and delivering presentations on various topics. Preferred Experience: Master's degree or higher in education or related field. Experience/Expert knowledge of concepts, principles and theories of instructional methods such as teaching, training, developing curricula, making presentations or lecturing and testing- all related to training/educating adult learners. Three or more years experience of leadership and supervisory skills. Mastery of advanced management and organizational principles and practices along with a comprehensive knowledge of planning, programming, and budgeting acquisition, and management process to prepare long-range (5 year) and short-range goals and outcomes. 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. Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required such as setting up a classroom environment. 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/.

How to Apply: All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the 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 03/18/2026 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12898745. To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS 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/ The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified: applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the required competencies of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/. During the application process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

Application Deadline: 2026-03-18