Total 399 job vacancies in Topeka, Kansas

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Operates and controls both the pallet and package x-ray scanners, using image interpretation skills to read and verify the x-ray image for explosive detection
• Performs the full range of examining and identifying explosive materials for the most complex categories of materials and equipment.
• Examines and identifies complex and difficult items received such as: no markings or documentation; require exhaustive and extensive research; require reference to complex, subjective specifications.
• Adheres to warehousing plan and accepted warehousing methods, procedures and techniques to select proper storage location.
• Receives, sorts, processes and prepares US Mail for delivery within the main facility.
• Issues inventory, supplies and materials; stores and pulls warehouse stock; packs and unpacks materials; loads and unloads materials; uses computerized equipment to process orders issued..
• Resource for external and internal customers and for communicating to ensure that outgoing shipments are packaged, labeled and shipped according to applicable regulations
• Assembles and arranges for Foreign and Domestic shipments of infectious materials, including Select Agents and Toxins, sample kits, check tests, reagents and supplies.
• Coordinates enhanced security procedures for the temporary storage of outgoing and incoming Select Agents and Toxins.

• Serve as Assistant Transportation Coordinator; obtain pricing information from the Transportation Services Division, prepare and submit Motor Transportation Requests to the Director for approval, and transmit completed paperwork for funding.
• Store equipment and supplies, issue expendable and non-expendable supplies and equipment, and manage inventory.
• Research vendor sources, product availability, deliverability, and cost.
• Establish and maintain sufficient stock levels, ensure proper storage procedures are used to avoid damage and organize and arrange items in a manner that will ensure easy access and inventory.
• Analyze office requirements for new or replacement office equipment, furniture, supplies, materials, repair parts, and services.
• Process paperwork, maintain records, monitor purchase transactions, and enter information into the document register.
• Maintain ready reference files of frequently consulted regulations, policies, rosters, directories, and other material.
• Operate a computer to input transactions into an automated database (i.e., General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS)), and prepare a variety of narrative reports, correspondence, charts, and statistical tables.
• This list is not all-inclusive.

• Serves as the Service Center technical authority on the Farm Loan Programs and the primary point-of-contact on all farm loan issues addressed in the counties serviced;
• Supervises and directs the work of a subordinate staff responsible for making, servicing, and liquidating loans under FSA farm loan authorities;
• Has delegated loan approval authority and performs the full range of loan specialist duties;
• Attends public meetings with various groups and associations, and performs public relations and outreach efforts in the geographic areas serviced;
• Applies knowledge of the technical and administrative concepts, principles, and practices of farm loan and financial management;
• Applies knowledge of farm operations, land use and value, and production and marketing of various crops and livestock.

WHAT IS THE TAS - TAXPAYER ADVOCATE SERVICE
DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas: Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS), Deputy Executive Director Case Advocacy (DEDCA) Area 6

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position.

As a Front Line Manager you will:

• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work.
• Assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Evaluate work performance of subordinates and makes recommendations for outstanding performance recognition and/or disciplinary action.
• Give advice, counsel or instruction to employees on work and administrative matters.
• Interview candidates for positions within the organization/unit and recommend appointment, promotion or reassignment to such positions.
• Hear and resolve complaints from employees, refer group grievances and/or more serious unresolved complaints as appropriate.
• Effect minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, recommend other actions in more serious cases.
• Identify developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for needed development and training.
• Initiate ways to improve production, work processes and/or to increase the quality of the work directed.

• Provide technical leadership, consultation, and oversight.
• Analyze and interpret provisions on current and proposed national program policies, procedures and regulations to determine their applicability to and impact on program administration in the State.
• Attend meetings and develop and maintain contacts with various governmental agencies, producers and trade organizations.
• Provide technical guidance and assistance as needed with programs' and automated applications.

• Analyze and interpret provisions on current and proposed national program policies, procedures and regulations to determine their applicability to and impact on program administration in the State.
• Attend meetings and develop and maintain contacts with various governmental agencies, producers and trade organizations.
• Provide technical guidance and assistance as needed with programs' and automated applications.

• Provide commanders with advice and assistance on matters pertaining to protocol and customs of the organization and courtesies of other countries.
• Train tasked drivers as needed in support of distinguished visitors' transportation requirements.
• Arrange the appropriate transportation and escort officers for each visitor, as necessary.
• Make necessary adjustments in planning and managing the overall workflow of the protocol function to meet mission requirements and deadlines.
• Make complete arrangements of formal and informal events for the organization.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Oversee laboratory support for NBAF’s Biosafety Level (BSL)-2, BSL-3E and Ag, BSL-4, and Biotechnology Development Module (BDM)
• Track all routine laboratory maintenance
• Stacks lunchroom chairs, tables, and collects waste receptables as part of cleaning/decontamination processes
• Monitor BSL-2, BSL-3E and Ag, BSL-4,BDM, and containment lunchroom cleaning and decontamination tasks by performing routine checks of housekeeping tasks, manual labor, and other activities
• Cleans, decontaminates, and deodorizes waste containers and carts.
• Follows high security safety regulations to decontaminate and remove materials from the laboratory
• Maintains all restroom supplies such as toilet paper, paper towels, soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, etc. in the restrooms, locker rooms, and laboratory spaces.
• Makes rounds within the BDM, BSL-2, BSL-3E and 3Ag and BSL-4 laboratories with hand operated carts to pick-up decontaminated non-disposable and disposable glassware items from individual laboratory

Eastern Kansas VA Medical Center is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

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ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

• Works collaboratively in an interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery model system.
• Screens new community care consults for eligibility and duplication.
• Communicates with community providers to ensure they accept VA patients and payments.
• Compiles and sends applicable pre-appointment clinical referral documentation.
• Schedules and documents appointments in the established electronic scheduling program.
• Requests medical documentation from community providers.
• Scans/indexes documents directly or routes documentation to the appropriate department to scan/index clinical documentation to the appropriate consult/progress note following VA policy/directives and VA Office of Community Care procedures and guidelines.
• Schedules Veteran appointments with community providers using electronic scheduling software.
• Uses established business rules to schedule appointments for Veterans which includes clinic visits and consultations.
• Complies with the mandatory training requirements for the outpatient scheduling processes.
• Ensures all appointments are scheduled timely and the provider and patient's desired dates are met.
• Must be flexible and able to accomplish other duties as assigned.
• Routinely communicates with physicians, case managers, and other allied health professional staff using sound interpersonal skills and remains consistently aware of sensitive information.
• Performance is judged in terms of overall effectiveness of the operation, the adequacy and accuracy of the work, timeliness, and conformance to established procedures, policies, and instructions.
• Supervision is generally based on direct observations, review of overall results on daily scheduling reports and standards of performance, as well as feedback from the departmental team to ensure mission is carried out.

Kansas City VA Medical Center s committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

The incumbent performs as a Supervisory Biomedical Engineer for the Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) program at the Kansas City VAMC, a large, 1b complexity medical center. The Kansas City VAMC has 157 beds and 8 CBOCs serving more than 50,000 veterans. The facility is supported by $47million inventory of medical equipment. HTM Service oversees all medical equipment systems.

Major duties include but not limited to:

• Apply advanced knowledge of principles, theories, concepts, and practices of biomedical engineering. Keep abreast of changes in technology and utilize the information gained in the solution of biomedical engineering problems to meet operational needs of multiple facilities.
• Ability to directly support the most complex and specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance for multiple facilities.
• Directly support the most complex and specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance for multiple facilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other disciplines, senior management, VHA Central Office, and VISN staff.
• Has responsibility supervising technical staff, including lower-level engineers, biomedical engineering technicians, and other staff typically found at a university affiliated tertiary care facility (complexity level 1,) with one or more subordinate biomedical engineers. In this assignment, supervisory biomedical engineers at the facility level will have notable ongoing responsibilities, supporting VISN biomedical engineering initiatives, and/or notable ongoing responsibilities as assigned by the Healthcare Technology Management Program Office.
• Knowledge of the management of overall department resources, i.e., finances, space, equipment, supplies, and staffing at the local level or at the VISN level.
• Draft and/or make recommendations to policies and /or directives related to healthcare technology management in scope of organizational objectives spanning from multiple facilities, VISN or national.
• Sets priorities, responsibilities, meets multiple deadlines, analyze organizational problems, delegate tasks, and develop and implement effective solutions.
• Supporting an equipment management program that meets current Joint Commission, FDA, CAP, CARF, NFPA, and VA requirements.
• Develop and implement solutions resulting in efficient operations and use data efficiently to manage workload, quality, performance, and productivity.
• Leading and dealing with employees, team leaders, and managers, within and outside of biomedical engineering to include conflict management, dispute resolution, mediation, or reasonable accommodations.
• Assisting with capital asset and infrastructure planning for medical equipment spanning initial concept, installation, and effective implementation of complex medical equipment.
• Functioning as a subject matter expert in the field of biomedical engineering who directly supports specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance at a medical center.
• Knowledge of basic project management principles, as applied to the healthcare setting and medical equipment, and information system implementation.

Kansas City VA Medical Center s committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

The incumbent performs as a Supervisory Biomedical Engineer for the Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) program at the Kansas City VAMC, a large, 1b complexity medical center. The Kansas City VAMC has 157 beds and 8 CBOCs serving more than 50,000 veterans. The facility is supported by $47million inventory of medical equipment. HTM Service oversees all medical equipment systems.

Major duties include but not limited to:

• Apply advanced knowledge of principles, theories, concepts, and practices of biomedical engineering. Keep abreast of changes in technology and utilize the information gained in the solution of biomedical engineering problems to meet operational needs of multiple facilities.
• Ability to directly support the most complex and specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance for multiple facilities.
• Directly support the most complex and specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance for multiple facilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other disciplines, senior management, VHA Central Office, and VISN staff.
• Has responsibility supervising technical staff, including lower-level engineers, biomedical engineering technicians, and other staff typically found at a university affiliated tertiary care facility (complexity level 1,) with one or more subordinate biomedical engineers. In this assignment, supervisory biomedical engineers at the facility level will have notable ongoing responsibilities, supporting VISN biomedical engineering initiatives, and/or notable ongoing responsibilities as assigned by the Healthcare Technology Management Program Office.
• Knowledge of the management of overall department resources, i.e., finances, space, equipment, supplies, and staffing at the local level or at the VISN level.
• Draft and/or make recommendations to policies and /or directives related to healthcare technology management in scope of organizational objectives spanning from multiple facilities, VISN or national.
• Sets priorities, responsibilities, meets multiple deadlines, analyze organizational problems, delegate tasks, and develop and implement effective solutions.
• Supporting an equipment management program that meets current Joint Commission, FDA, CAP, CARF, NFPA, and VA requirements.
• Develop and implement solutions resulting in efficient operations and use data efficiently to manage workload, quality, performance, and productivity.
• Leading and dealing with employees, team leaders, and managers, within and outside of biomedical engineering to include conflict management, dispute resolution, mediation, or reasonable accommodations.
• Assisting with capital asset and infrastructure planning for medical equipment spanning initial concept, installation, and effective implementation of complex medical equipment.
• Functioning as a subject matter expert in the field of biomedical engineering who directly supports specialized clinical technology including service, system administration, training, and quality assurance at a medical center.
• Knowledge of basic project management principles, as applied to the healthcare setting and medical equipment, and information system implementation.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Serves as the medical center liaison with a variety of federal, state and local agencies that have an impact on our medical care, education, research and disaster planning missions.
• Serves as liaison to the care/service lines and services, providing assistance, advice and guidance on a variety of issues and topics, processes, procedures, protocol and policy.
• Represents senior leadership on or before various internal and external councils, committees, and task forces.
• Develops and presents reports, power points, and presentations on a variety of complex and challenging medical center issues on behalf of the medical center director.
• Performs a variety of critical functions in identifying and resolving complex and highly diversified health systems issues.
• Advise top management on controversial issues and provide constructive suggestions to managers.
• Initiate, develops, and drafts written Medical Center policies and procedures with little or no established guidelines.
• Reviews, coordinates or develops official responses to Members of Congress, Federal agencies, and other external publics, ensuring compliance with deadlines.
• Conducts fact-finding/data collection, conducts appropriate background research, and effectively interprets Federal, and other regulation to analyze operating problems and provide accurate information for decisions.

You will serve as a Supervisory Business Unit Manager and will be responsible for providing supervisory, administrative and technical management of the U.S. Coast Guard's automated active duty and reserve pay and personnel system. You will also provide personnel support to USCG customer and for the timely processing and payment of semi-monthly payroll.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

• Evaluating legislative and regulatory changes and Comptroller General decisions and establishing policies and directions for implementing them.
• Providing responsive and timely service to Pay and Personnel Center (PPC) customers.
• Making continuous improvements to the services and products provided by Military Account Support Branch.
• Processing pay entitlements and ensuring that the semi-monthly payroll is accurate and timely.
• Furthering the goals of equal employment opportunity (EEO) by ensuring the accomplishment of affirmative action objectives and adhering to non-discriminatory employment practices.

This position has been designated as Mission Essential. In the event of severe weather conditions or other such emergency type situations (natural or man-made disaster) the incumbent is required to report to work or remain at work as scheduled to support mission operations.

You will serve as a/an Supervisory Business Unit Manager and will be responsible for providing supervisory, administrative and technical management of the U.S. Coast Guard's automated active duty and reserve pay and personnel system. You will also provide personnel support to USCG customer and for the timely processing and payment of semi-monthly payroll.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:

• Evaluating legislative and regulatory changes and Comptroller General decisions and establishing policies and directions for implementing them.
• Providing responsive and timely service to Pay and Personnel Center (PPC) customers.
• Making continuous improvements to the services and products provided by Military Account Support Branch.
• Processing pay entitlements and ensuring that the semi-monthly payroll is accurate and timely.
• Furthering the goals of equal employment opportunity (EEO) by ensuring the accomplishment of affirmative action objectives and adhering to non-discriminatory employment practices.

• Plan daily weekly and monthly work schedules and sequences of operations for subordinates.
• Establish deadlines and priorities on the basis of methods, and policies established by higher levels of supervision.
• Explain work requirements, instructing subordinates in new procedures and providing advice when problems arise.
• Investigate work related problems, such as low productivity, identify causes and implement corrective action within limits of authority.
• Develop and counsel employees on performance standards, implementing formal and informal performance appraisals.
• Determine supplies needed for planned projects and for repairs and/or upgrades to existing structures and grounds improvements.
• Train employees on safe work practices and the use of protective clothing and equipment.
• Ensure current information is provided to all employees regarding hazardous materials in the work environment.