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Administrative Officer
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 36 days ago
Hybrid Brockton, MA $70K – $91K Apply by Aug 14, 2026 Administrative Officer ENTJESFJESTJISTJ Healthcare
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This Administrative Officer position is organizationally located in the Police Service at the VA Boston Healthcare System (Brockton campus).
What You'll Do
- →Personnel Administration and Management Work Leads in administering programs concerning such matters as equal opportunity, merit promotion, employee/labor-management relations, and position management.
- →Oversees personnel administration that includes knowledge of personnel operations, position classification, grievance procedures, performance standards, and disciplinary actions.
- →Reviews requests within the service to verify their need and ensures that each section receives the appropriate share of the finds and resources available.
- →Budgeting/Financial Management Work Plans a system of internal controls that assure the fiscal management of the VA Police Service will be maintained on a sound basis in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices.
- →Assembles and compiles budget information and maintains running account of funds allocated and expended in all sub accounts and makes interim adjustments where necessary by applying the basic knowledge and understand of budgetary policies, procedures, and regulations.
- →Develops monthly and quarterly cost ceilings while maintaining running control of funds to ensure that accounts are within authorized levels.
- →Procurement/Contracting Manages procurement and contracting for VA Police Service.
- →This includes preparing procurement requests, evaluating proposals for work, acting as a COR for procurements, and/or maintaining procurement and contracting records.
- →Initiates and prepares contracts to secure adequate resources to facilitate operations to include determining appropriate costs, performing costs analysis, soliciting bids, writing sole source justifications, and communicating both orally and in writing with contractors.
- →Prepares and reviews purchase order for supplies and non-- expendable property such as equipment, to include personal computer hardware and software and other specialized equipment necessary to the effective functioning of the office.
- →Exercises authorizations for obligation and expenditures of funds.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- →EST Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
- →When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
- ✓You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓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.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
- ✓Graduate Education: Education at the graduate level in an accredited college or university meets the requirements for positions in this occupational series at GS-7 through GS-11.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 347cfcaa-ca0d-407d-9518-a8a3ea580c97
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