USA remote
Program Specialist
About this role
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/13/2026. 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 level. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12 level.
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.
Specialized Experience: You must have one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal service that has equipped you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience is experience that included all or most of the following: For GS-12- Do you possess one-year specialized experience to at least the GS-11 level? Specialized experience: Developing and supporting development of a variety of systems and data integration support tools through work with internal and external entities.
Examples of such tools include submission trackers, project management systems, action item workflow trackers, internal process workload controls, automation of educational system process measures, improvements to action item tracking methods, and custom data collection and reporting dashboards to support VHA educational initiatives. Serving as an information technology (IT) administrative liaison establishing and maintaining mutual understanding and cooperation with the Office of Information Technology and other related external offices.
For GS-13 - Do you possess one-year specialized experience to at least the GS-12 level? Specialized experience: Conducting projects that involve coordinating, analyzing, modeling, and consolidating project data as required to develop a wide variety of outputs (e.g., final proposals, reports, executive briefs/summaries, presentations, interactive data visualizations, dashboards, and data stories). Leading integrated project teams consisting of subject matter experts (SME), contract IT staff, field users, and management officials in the development of operational requirements for IT systems.