Supervisory Mobility Transportation Specialist at Wichita

JOB SUMMARY:

Vacancy Identification Number (VIN) 921638

OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln’s promise – “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan” – by serving and honoring the men and women who are America’s Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans?

The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center, Wichita, KS. is seeking to fill a full time Supervisory Mobility Transportation Specialist position in Medical Administration Service. 

Salary range for GS 11:  $57,408 -$74,628/annum

Tour of Duty:  Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm

FLSA status: Exempt

Bargaining Unit: Not Covered

Relocation expenses are not authorized for this vacancy. 

VA professionals feel good about their careers and their ability to balance work and home life. VA offers generous paid time off and a variety of predictable and flexible scheduling opportunities. For more information on the Department of Veterans Affairs, go to http://www.vacareers.va.gov//”]

Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons withdisabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointmentof persons with disabilities [i.e.,intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatricdisabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connecteddisability of 30% or more.Contact the Agency Contact on the last page of the JOA for information on howto apply under this appointment authority via the Selective PlacementCoordinator.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job.
• Subject to a background/suitability investigation.
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required.
• Restricted to eligible veterans in mental health recovery.
• See Qualifications section for full details.

DUTIES:Back to top

Position Description Title/PD#: Supervisory Mobility Transportation Specialist, PD #101-00845A

Duties include but are not limited to:  serving as the Mobility Manager at the facility level, managing the transportation program to include supervision of schedulers, drivers, beneficiary travel clerks and other related staff.  The position manages Beneficiary Travel, Special Mode, Veterans Transportation Service and Highly Rural Transportation Grants. The incumbent ensures that the Beneficiary travel policy, audit processes, remediation and reporting comply with regulatory guidance and assures program compliance and effectiveness.  The specialist serves as the primary representative to State Transportation Departments, regional governmental agencies involved in transportation and local agencies and transportation providers for the purpose of developing a network of transportation resources for VA beneficiaries. 

 

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:Back to top

Time-in-grade: 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.

Administrativeand Management Positions

This qualification standard coverspositions in the General Schedule that involve the performance of two-gradeinterval administrative and management work. It contains common patterns ofcreditable experience and education to be used in making qualificationsdeterminations.

Educationand experience requirements

GS 11: 

Education:  3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LLM, if related. 

OR

Specialized Experience 1 year equivalent to at least the GS 9 level.

   

 Individual Occupational Requirements: 

Education:  graduate education - major study - accounting, business administration, business or commercial law, commerce, economics, engineering, finance, industrial management, statistics, traffic management, transportation, motor mechanics, or other fields related to the position.  OR

 

Specialized Experience:  Experience that demonstrated a knowledge of the transportation functions of this position including but not limited to:  

  working with regulations and policies regarding safe transport of patients, budget processes, coordinating patient travel.      

NOTE: Equivalent combinations of education and experience arequalifying for all grade levels for which both education and experience areacceptable.

Superior Academic Achievement: The superior academic achievement provision is applicableto all occupations covered by this standard. See the "General Policies andInstructions" for specific guidance on applying the superior academicachievement provision.

Graduate Education: Education at the graduate level in an accredited college oruniversity in the amounts shown in the table meets the requirements forpositions at GS-7 through GS-11. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge,skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.

One year of full-time graduateeducation is considered to be the number of credit hours that the schoolattended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If thatinformation cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should beconsidered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement.

Part-time graduate education iscreditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study atthe school attended.

For certain positions covered bythis standard, the work may be recognized as sufficiently technical orspecialized that graduate study alone may not provide the knowledge and skillsneeded to perform the work. In such cases, agencies may use selective factorsto screen out applicants without actual work experience.

Specialized Experience: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particularknowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of theposition, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to befilled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent toat least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for theoccupation in the organization. Applicants who have the 1 year of appropriatespecialized experience, as indicated in the table, are not required by thisstandard to have general experience, education above the high school level, orany additional specialized experience to meet the minimum qualificationrequirements.

Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed post-high schooleducation and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirementsfor the grade levels specified in the table, and may be computed by firstdetermining the applicants total qualifying experience as a percentage of theexperience required for the grade level; then determining the applicantseducation as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; andthen adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate educationin excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used toqualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9 and GS-11. (When creditingeducation that requires specific course work, prorate the number of hours ofrelated courses required as a proportion of the total education to be used.)

You will be rated on the following Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other characteristics (KSAOs) based on your application for this position.

KSA #1 - Knowledge and skill in adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to the measurement of program effectiveness and organizational measures.

KSA #2 - Knowledge of principles, concepts and techniques of patient transportation.

KSA #3 - Ability to plan, schedule and implement projects.

KSA #4 - Ability to communicate.

KSA #5 - Skill in planning and estimating operating cost and managing personnel to enusre the highest level in program performance.

If you are referred for consideration, you may be asked to submit additional job related information, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume/application does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Reference:  Administrative and Management Positions Qualification Standards available at www.OPM.gov.

 

PLEASE NOTE: Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications (particularly positions with a positive education requirement.) Therefore, applicants must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html All education claimed by applicants will be verified by the appointing agency accordingly. 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.

Physical Requirements: work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required.  Travel will be required on a periodic basis. 

Veterans Preference: When applying for Federal Jobs, eligible Veterans should claim preference on the Occupational Questionnaire in the section provided and provide a legible copy of your DD214(s) and/or documentation related to your active duty service which shows dates of service, character of service (honorable, general, etc.), or dates of impending separation.

Additionally, disabled veterans and others eligible for 10-point preference (such as widows or mothers of eligible Veterans) must also submit an SF-15 "Application for 10 Point Veterans Preference" with required proof as stated on the form. For more information, please review the information for disabled Veterans in the application checklist or visit http://www.fedshirevets.gov/job/vetpref/index.aspx.

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:

Your résumé and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

Country: USA, State: Kansas, City: Wichita, Company: Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration.