Program Specialist - Staff Assistant

About this role

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/15/2026. 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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: providing executive-level administrative support in complex, multi-service healthcare organization, including independent management of competing scheduling and correspondence demands across multiple senior executives; exercising sound judgement and discretion in handing sensitive, high-visibility, or politically charged matters; Independently execute the full range of administrative and management functions, such as, executive correspondence and suspense management, calendar and scheduling coordination across four principals, service-level liaison and representation of the executives on routine administrative and logistical matters, quality control and completeness review of products submitted for executive signature or decision, project tracking initiatives, executive level data synthesis, travel and stakeholder support, and front-office administrative operations.