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APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

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As a Supervisory General Attorney, GS-0905-14, you will be responsible for:
•    Ensuring that the team's complaint investigations, compliance reviews, and proactive enforcement activities are factually accurate and legally sound.
•    Providing professional leadership and guidance to team members in conducting, and improving civil rights complaint investigations, compliance review, proactive enforcement, and technical assistance activities.  
•    Providing legal guidance to the team on the analysis of evidence, investigative reports, resolution letters, and negotiated settlements.  
•    Planning and conducting complete on-site investigations.  
•    Conducting compliance reviews of selected recipient institutions with respect to the requirements of appropriate statues and regulations.

• Supervise a group of employees performing work up to the GS-14 level.
• Manage and direct the performance of a full range of complex procurement activities for contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements in support of USAID/W bureaus, offices, and overseas Mission programs worldwide.
• Provide expert procurement advice to senior officials on all acquisition matters, ensuring actions are executed in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, accounting standards, pricing practices and current business methods.
• Negotiate procurement of products and services under a variety of contract/assistance mechanisms.
• Manage procurement planning activities such as preparing and maintaining current acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts, and related schedules.
• Participate in strategy and planning phases, evaluation of offers, negotiations, contract award, and contract administration.

• Instruct BASIC and advanced immigration courses.
• Design, develop, and revise course content.
• Maintain and assure specific course content is current, technically accurate, sound and consistent with established agency goals and operational policies.
• Conduct independent research on immigration policy or procedural changes mandated by recent legislation and/or precedent decisions in order to update assigned course modules and maintain subject matter expertise.
• Modify and prepare lectures, exercises, and job aids using adult learning methodologies that correspond with the abilities and demonstrated progression of the student to ensure instruction is adequately understood.
• Manage or coordinate classroom activities by providing technical and program guidance to students and instructors in such areas as attendance, academic issues, scheduling, special accommodations and ceremonies.

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Deliver and support internal and external communications and public outreach, coordinating and managing the implementation of all communications elements using both internal and external resources.
• Express facts and ideas both in writing and orally in a clear, concise, and organized manner that meets established standards for format and style and is appropriate for the intended audience.
• Ensure that announcements, invitations to bid, requests for information, requests for proposals, and related contractual documents in the administration of contracts are distributed and posted.
• Prepare personnel to speak effectively on program matters with the public, industry, and other interested groups.
• Oversee the communication of the necessary memoranda, dockets, and purchase plans, and ensures clearance with appropriate officials.
• Coordinate with the Food and Drug Administration, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Food and Nutrition Service, and other Federal, State, and local government agencies to resolve complaints.
• Coordinates with the AMS FOIA Office and Subject Matter experts to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests.

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-14. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs. Identify new processes, techniques, and
  procedures to upgrade and enhance security protocols.
• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of new technology and other developments in the field of
  information technology. Interpret and evaluate proposed legislation and broad-based policies
  concerning IT.
• Develop, recommend, and implement approved security contingency plans, incident response plans, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Represent the organization with Departmental and multi-agency work groups focused on issues of systems security. Provide technical leadership on group projects.
• Assess potential impact on existing program requirements. Evaluate the feasibility of implementing new developments to enhance systems security and reliability.

VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU

The incumbent is accountable to the Primary Care Social Work Supervisor in carrying out operational functions described above. The incumbent has clinical involvement in patient care by providing clinical case consultation to patient/family/community inquiries about services or patient care issues provided by the VA. Clinical social work services may be delivered in person or by electronic media, such as phone, V-Tel or home tele-health. Services will generally be provided in a clinic setting but may occasionally need to be provided in the community or in a patient/family home.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Psychosocial Assessment - The social worker will develop an assessment of the veteran, family, economic, community, and psychosocial support
systems when clinically indicated. The assessments must reflect a high level of skill in gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and documenting data
that is pertinent and directly related to patient health care planning, treatment, education and case management. The veteran, family members, significant others and the interdisciplinary treatment team are involved in this process, whenever possible. The goal of the communication is to highlight the veteran's strengths, limitations, and internal/external supports and service needs in order to optimize the veteran's functional status and safely maintain the veteran in his/her home.

Clinical diagnosing using DSM-5 and ICD-10 behavior codes - Incumbent demonstrates knowledge in DSM-5 diagnosing and documents diagnostic
impressions in psychosocial assessments when appropriate. Clinician may function independently or within a team to determine an appropriate
diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan based on that diagnosis.

Treatment Planning/Goal Setting - Incumbent demonstrates basic knowledge of psychosocial treatment modalities and demonstrates the ability to implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups to achieve treatment goals. This requires judgment and skill in utilizing supportive, problem solving, or crisis intervention techniques. The social worker is responsible for developing a treatment plan, and setting achievable treatment goals with the veteran/family in collaboration with the primary care interdisciplinary treatment team members when indicated. Incumbent demonstrates basic knowledge of medical and mental diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures to include acute, chronic and traumatic illnesses/injuries; common medications and their effects/side/effects; and basic medical terminology.

Therapy- Social worker will provide the veterans and their caregivers with ongoing psychotherapy (group and/or individual) and/or supportive counseling when appropriate. Incumbent is able to demonstrate the ability to utilize the DSM-V to ensure appropriate treatment recommendations.

Referral to service providers - Throughout the course of treatment the social worker is the subject matter expert on VA and/or community resources. The social worker will collaborate with other service providers in reassessing the veteran's needs for VA and community resources and entitlements. The social worker is responsible for educating the veteran and/or caregiver of the available services and assisting them in establishing the appropriate referrals based on the veteran's preference or that of his/her surrogate decision-maker.

Resource Development - The social worker is responsible for developing a resource file of VA and community social service programs and will refer the veteran to needed services.

Advocacy - Social worker understands the intimidation of bureaucracy and will act as an advocate when it serves the best interest of the veteran/family. When appropriate and feasible, social worker will educate and encourage the veteran/family to advocate for themselves, thus fostering a sense of independence and empowerment.

Crisis Intervention - Social worker is experienced in making rapid assessments and developing crisis management plans to maintain patient in the home, for admission to acute, short term and/or long term placements. Social worker has access to multiple resource directories in addition to previously developed resources to meet the demands of a crisis.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. or 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
This position is remote, which is defined as: An alternative work arrangement in which an employee, under a written remote work agreement, is scheduled to perform their official duties at an alternative worksite and is not expected to perform work at an agency worksite on a regular and recurring basis. A remote worker's official worksite may be within or outside the commuting area of an agency worksite.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized.
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.

Specific duties include:

• The incumbent monitors and reports on the status of work in progress and reviews completed work to ensure that instructions on work priorities, method, deadlines and quality have been met.
• The incumbent provides training to acquisition staff members, management, and customers regarding methods and techniques of performing contract actions and analyzing acquisition policy. The incumbent provides or arranges specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishment of individual and team tasks.
• The Procurement Analyst coordinates the response to and analysis of unique and complicated Congressional inquiries requiring extensive research. He or she examines and responds to Office of Inspector General (OIG} Hotline case referrals as determined by the Acquisition Division leadership. This will include, but is not limited to, site visits' recommendation development, official written responses; and coordination with members from OIG. The incumbent may, at times, serve on interdisciplinary groups to resolve and analyze issues as described above.
• The incumbent defines or assists in defining areas in which to conduct vulnerability assessments including assessments of contract administration/management systems, practices and procedures. The incumbent provides training to acquisition staff members, management, and customers regarding methods and techniques of performing contract actions and analyzing acquisition policy. The incumbent provides or arranges specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishment of individual and team tasks.
• The incumbent has wide latitude in reviewing daily operations and apprising the management team on problem areas, proposing corrective actions to be taken, and the monitoring of those actions once implemented. Public Laws, VA Manuals and Directives, Federal Acquisition and Veterans Administration Acquisition Regulations serve as the basis for interpretations, decisions, and correct application of VBA's data systems, principles, contract methods, and techniques. The incumbent will serve as the Alternate Automated Data Processing Applications Coordinator for VBA. He or she develops programs to support computer-enhanced systematic internal reviews and provides comprehensive analysis on a wide variety of VBA acquisition functions conducted via automation. The incumbent must initiate and analyze studies of VBA acquisition to provide feedback and generate new initiatives to enhance the current processes. As necessary, the incumbent revises, modifies, and installs new system procedures and/or organizational changes subject to the concurrence of the Supervisor or Director. The incumbent plans, organizes, and conducts computer systems training programs which promote the highest standard of employee efficiency, computer skill, and motivation.

- Responsible for providing multi-state and multi-agency recruitment and staffing program administration to include operations involving the areas of Special Programs (Veterans, diversity, the disabled, the Pathways Programs, etc), Direct-Hire Authority, Delegated Examining Authority, including program evaluation.

-Evaluates the recruitment and placement program considering current workload, previous schedules, priority matters, anticipated program, procedural issues, staffing levels, and other changes in developments. Conducts evaluations to determine the effectiveness of human resource programs to ensure they are meeting management objectives, promoting supervisory understanding and acceptance of programs, principles, and procedures as they relate to employee rights, privileges, and responsibilities; ensures integration of administrative programs with total personnel management.

-Administers and provides oversight and evaluation for processing personnel actions meeting all legal and regulatory requirements to ensure technical accuracy with flow through personnel/payroll systems, all of which have long-term impacts and financial implications for each employee. Additionally, provides oversight and evaluation of the Employee Timekeeping and Attendance System operations.

-Recommends changes in procedures to meet workload demands and to effect other operations. The results of the work have a significant impact on the effectiveness and acceptance of HR programs, as well as, supervisor's and mangers' ability to effectively accomplish their work throughout the Region and Agencies serviced by staffing and classification.

• Research, interpret and apply federal HR personnel laws, regulations, policies, and practices.
• Provide comprehensive and strategic recruitment and placement advisory services to serviced clients.
• Collaborate with hiring officials to coordinate the specific recruitment needs of the organization.
• Provide position classification management advisor services that typically deal with difficult, complex, and often issues controversial to position management.
• Review current and proposed policies, procedures, and other guidance and provides input in order to improve effectiveness of HR operations and programs.

Specific duties include (but are not limited to):

- Provides guidance and technical direction for accomplishing the work of the unit or team.
- Ensures the work assignments of employees in the unit or team are carried out.
- Works with the supervisor in the assignment of functions to team members to meet routine and unusual deadlines and priorities.
- Serves as work leader, ensuring the work assignments of employees in the unit are carried out.
- Distributes and balances workload and tasks among employees in accordance with established workflow and/or job specialization. In case of a shortage of personnel due to scheduled or unscheduled leave, responsible for filing in and for distributing the workload to other team members to ensure smooth workflow.
- Ensures the timely accomplishment of assigned tasks and ensures that each employee has enough work to keep busy. Monitors the status and progress of work and makes day-to-day adjustments in accordance with established priorities.
- Maintains current knowledge and answers questions about other employee's procedures, policies, and directives.
- Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work, checks on work in progress, and reviews completed work to see that the supervisor's instructions on work priorities, methods, deadlines, and quality have been met.
- Obtains assistance and/or need information from the supervisor on problems that may arise or backlogs that cannot be disposed of promptly.

Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. The grade progression for this position is GS-08.

Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8 am - 4 pm
Compressed/Flexible: Available
Telework: Available
Virtual: Yes this is a Virtual position
Position Description/PD#: Human Resources Assistant (Recruitment and Placement); GS-07, 42030-A/GS-08, 41137-A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

**Employee is responsible for having high speed internet, that is compatible with working remotely.**

Applicants will be sent forward based on application date and time. 50 applicants will be reviewed and if no selections are made, an additional review of the next 50 applicants will be submitted.

Duties of the Occupational Therapist (Clinical Specialist) GS-0631-13, may include but are not limited to:

• Serves as a subject matter expert and provide clinical guidance area to other Occupational Therapist (OT) practitioners and consultation to other health care practitioners and outside groups about their specialized OT scope of practice.
• Modalities offered may include, but are not limited to heartrate variability bio feedback, clinical hypnosis, guided imagery, meditation or mindfulness, tai chi, qigong and yoga.
• Knowledges of specialized CIH interventions and services while utilizing comprehensive assessments of functional and occupational roles with standardized and non-standardized tools, which include Occupations (activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, education, work leisure, social participation), Client Factors (values, beliefs, spirituality, body functions and structures), Performances Skills (motor, process and social skills), Patterns (habits routines, rituals, roles) and Context and Environment (cultural, personal, physical, social, temporal, virtual).
• Understands the theories of treatment in OT and their proper application through activity analysis, behavioral intervention, frames of reference and therapeutic procedures.
• Provides role modeling, guidance, and instruction to colleagues in best practices f or CIH.
• Consults other health care practitioners and outside groups about OT scope of practice as it pertains to CIH approaches. They may lead, initiate, or support research protocols in relation to their scope of specialization.

The Clinical Documentation specialist will provide active concurrent/retrospective review, provide feedback, and educate clinical care providers to improve the documentation of all conditions, treatments, and care plans within the health record to accurately reflect the condition of the patient and promote patient care. In addition, documentation should reflect documentation associated with MS-DRG assignment, case mix index, severity of illness, risk of mortality, physician profiling, hospital profiling, and reimbursement rules.

As a Clinical Documentation Specialist, incumbent is responsible for providing ongoing education to our providers and coding team members by conducting initial and extended-stay concurrent review on selected admissions and document findings identifying missed opportunities and clinical documentation improvements which will both enhance the quality of the health record documentation, maximize VERA and 3rd Party Collections. Incumbent identifies co-morbidities and complications and documents appropriately. Incumbent queries the medical staff and other clinical caregivers as necessary via written/verbal communication to obtain accurate and complete documentation. Provides ongoing education to physicians and other clinical care providers, related to documentation, changes in coding, compliance issues, profiling concerns, and reimbursement changes according to VA regulations and policies.
Orients and instructs new personnel and/or students from affiliated health information or medical record technology programs, at the direction of the supervisor, on unit operations, coding, abstracting, and use of an electronic medical record.
Advise and assist the Health Information Management section in the identification of training, in-services or educational needs of personnel. In addition, Clinical Documentation Specialist will present educational resources to the health information management staff and the professional staff as needed or provide goals as requested.
Works within a team environment; supports peers in meeting goals and deadlines; flexible and handles multiple tasks; works under pressure; and copes with frequently changing projects and deadlines.
Conducts re-reviews of codes abstracted for patient encounters identified by the VISN VERA Committee to determine if based on the documentation the specific VERA coding requirements were followed; corrects coding as needed to ensure proper patient classification in the VERA program.
For all assignments above the journey level, the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope, complexity (difficulty), range of variety, and be performed by the incumbent at least 25% of the time.
Performs other related duties as assigned.


Work Schedule: Full time 7:00am to 3:30pm (Can be negotiated at time of interview)
Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized
Virtual: This is a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: F 1480
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized

The Clinical Documentation specialist will provide active concurrent/retrospective review, provide feedback, and educate clinical care providers to improve the documentation of all conditions, treatments, and care plans within the health record to accurately reflect the condition of the patient and promote patient care. In addition, documentation should reflect documentation associated with MS-DRG assignment, case mix index, severity of illness, risk of mortality, physician profiling, hospital profiling, and reimbursement rules.

As a Clinical Documentation Specialist, incumbent is responsible for providing ongoing education to our providers and coding team members by conducting initial and extended-stay concurrent review on selected admissions and document findings identifying missed opportunities and clinical documentation improvements which will both enhance the quality of the health record documentation, maximize VERA and 3rd Party Collections. Incumbent identifies co-morbidities and complications and documents appropriately. Incumbent queries the medical staff and other clinical caregivers as necessary via written/verbal communication to obtain accurate and complete documentation. Provides ongoing education to physicians and other clinical care providers, related to documentation, changes in coding, compliance issues, profiling concerns, and reimbursement changes according to VA regulations and policies.
Orients and instructs new personnel and/or students from affiliated health information or medical record technology programs, at the direction of the supervisor, on unit operations, coding, abstracting, and use of an electronic medical record.
Advise and assist the Health Information Management section in the identification of training, in-services or educational needs of personnel. In addition, Clinical Documentation Specialist will present educational resources to the health information management staff and the professional staff as needed or provide goals as requested.
Works within a team environment; supports peers in meeting goals and deadlines; flexible and handles multiple tasks; works under pressure; and copes with frequently changing projects and deadlines.
Conducts re-reviews of codes abstracted for patient encounters identified by the VISN VERA Committee to determine if based on the documentation the specific VERA coding requirements were followed; corrects coding as needed to ensure proper patient classification in the VERA program.
For all assignments above the journey level, the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope, complexity (difficulty), range of variety, and be performed by the incumbent at least 25% of the time.
Performs other related duties as assigned.


Work Schedule: Full time 7:00am to 3:30pm (Can be negotiated at time of interview)
Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized
Virtual: This is a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: F 1480
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized

Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Serving as facility technical payroll expert to VAMC staff and provide data, reports, guidance, and resolution to payroll issues across the VAMC.
• Independently researching, resolving, and responding to routine and occasional non-routine verbal and written pay and leave inquiries from employees, supervisors, Financial Service Center (FSC), HR, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) and VA Central Office (VACO) staff.
• Determining proper application of pay and leave regulations, laws, rules and agency policies, guidelines, coding, etc. for each separate pay plan involved and appropriate leave system impacted.
• Interpreting and apply regulations and policies regarding appointment entitlements, leave earnings, charges of leave, leave w/o pay, advance sick leave and compensatory time.
• Using knowledge of varying premium pay and benefit entitlements for employee specific pay plans when implementing tours of duty regulations and/or policies to include 24-hour coverage, irregular, compressed and/or flex tours, etc.
• Performing full range of payroll actions under multiple automated systems for employees appointed under different personnel systems with each having unique pay accounts and governing regulations/policies relating to the Federal Wage System, (FWS) General Schedule (GS) title 5 including special salary rates, title 38, title 38 hybrids, law enforcement and firefighter pay, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), title 38 overtime, irregular tours of duty, etc.
• Resolving system discrepancies which may result in initiating the employee debt process or back pay.
• Updating employees' master payroll records to reflect all changes authorized by personnel documents.
• Reviewing and work unique payroll actions, questions, or situations which impact: pay; leave; entitlements; taxes; benefits; other deductions and master pay record information for all employees in the group during the pay cycle.
• Managing annual refresher training for all timekeepers and supervisors.
• Answering routine and occasional non-routine procedural questions relative to time and leave laws, regulations, procedures and resolve problems to ensure accurate and timely pay.
• Assisting in resolving issues with court orders, grievances, and/or public laws.
• Reviewing authorized documents and code appropriate data for input into integrated personnel and fiscal automated systems to properly update employee master records.
• Reviewing all personnel actions in HR Smart related to; hiring appointments; separations; reassignments; promotions; pay adjustments; awards and other authorizing documents that affect pay and benefits of employees.
• Running daily reports to ensure all facility employees' pay is correct.
• Auditing all employee type of pay and leave accounts to identify and correct delinquent and/or erroneous personnel actions or time-keeping errors.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

As a Supervisory Contract Specialist, you will:

• Serve as Chief of the Contracting Office (COCO) for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (GLS) including carrying out all the responsibilities and delegations described for the COCO in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Transportation Acquisition Regulation (TAR), and Transportation Acquisition Manual (TAM).
• Be responsible for, but not limited to, acquisition planning, contract award, contract management, pricing analysis, contract financing, control of Government furnished property/materials, contract modifications and terminations, contract closeout, supply inventory receiving, and warehouse management.
• Represent GLS on procurement management matters in discussions with OST, other Government Agencies, and private industry. Develop GLS policies, standards, and procedures and analyze changes to Departmental as well as Government wide policies and procedures dealing with the acquisition process.
• Manage and direct staff activities including as supervisor, determine goals, assign projects, make decisions on work problems, act on recommendations, furnish advice and assistance, approve and overrule actions, collaborate with heads of other units, and advise higher level officials of program issues and relationships to other programs. Ensure staff meets Department of Transportation (DOT) acquisition workforce requirements. Evaluate subordinate supervisors and direct reports. Ensure training and work assignments enhance professional growth.

The ideal candidate for this position is a confident acquisition leader who has significant experience with the full range of acquisition functions (pre-award and post-award) from simplified to complex contracts with a concentration in construction and architectural and engineering services, delivery and/or purchase order, and Inter and Intra-agency agreements. The ideal candidate has issued solicitations, evaluated proposals, performed cost and price analysis, monitored contractor performance, negotiated contract modifications, and has been responsible for contract closeout. Additionally, as this position is a visible member of the leadership team, strong communication skills and an interest in developing others/helping increase understanding of the acquisition process are extremely beneficial.

*PLEASE NOTE: This announcement establishes an open continuous (3 month) vacancy announcement. Given our continuing need for top professionals in this field, we will review applications after the first 21 days of the vacancy opening for early consideration. Then after, applications will be reviewed on an as needed basis.