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Supervisory Medical Administration Specialist

Veterans Health AdministrationLeeds, MassachusettsPosted 1 Oct 2026

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Supervisory Medical Administration Specialist GS-0301-11 Supervisory Factor Narrative: The position is a first line supervisory role with responsibility for planning, assigning, and reviewing the work of subordinate administrative personnel engaged in Community Care program support. The incumbent establishes performance standards, writes performance plans, and evaluates employee performance; provides coaching, counseling, and disciplinary recommendations; approves leave; interviews candidates and participates in selections; and recommends awards.

The incumbent identifies training needs and assures staff are trained in required systems and SOPs; ensures safety, security, equal employment opportunity, and privacy requirements are met; and promotes an equitable, inclusive workplace. Work planning includes balancing workload across staff to meet access and timeliness metrics, adjusting assignments to maintain coverage, and monitoring and production and quality metrics.

The incumbent uses team leads or senior staff, as applicable, to coordinate and oversee daily operations; exercises responsibility in advising service leadership on unit level operational issues and internal control needs; ensures reasonable equity of performance standards and rating techniques within the unit; and directs a program segment with measurable workload and resources. The incumbent makes decisions on work problems presented by subordinates, evaluates their recommendations, and resolves issues as needed.

Serves as the reviewing official on evaluations of employees rated by subordinate leads (if applicable). Makes or participates in selections for nonsupervisory positions, contributes to decisions for team leaders, hears and resolves group grievances or serious complaints, and reviews and recommends serious disciplinary actions for higher level approval. Approves non routine training needs and requests related to staff development within delegated authority' approves expenses comparable to overtime and employee travel; recommends awards or bonuses and provides input on classification or staffing changes subject to review by higher level officials.

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The incumbent promotes team building, improves business practices, reduces bottlenecks, and schedules leaves to ensure adequate coverage To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/08/2026. 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: Program Administration and Planning Budget Administration Quality Improvement and Productivity OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree if related.

Degree must be in a field that has equipped the applicant with knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position being filled. OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education.

(TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED). Note: Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hours worked per week.. Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), your responses on the application questionnaire, and your responses to all assessments required for this position. You will be assessed on the following Competencies for this position: Accountability Customer Service Decisiveness Flexibility Interpersonal Skills Problem Solving Resilience Supervisory Situational Judgment Test.

Applicants will be required to complete a Supervisory Situational Judgment Test (SSJT) as part of the assessment process for this position. The SSJT evaluates judgment and decision-making skills that align with relevant competencies, organizational values, and best practices. Assessment results may be used as part of the evaluation, ranking and referral process. This is not a timed test, however, the assessment is expected to take approximately 45 minutes or less to complete.

The assessment for this application does not include a cut score for a minimum level of required proficiency in these critical general competencies. However, you must answer each item in the assessment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities.

Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment. A pre-placement physical examination is not required.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

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