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Assistant Director
Veterans Benefits Administration · Posted 60 days ago
About the Role
The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provides eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation and be found well-qualified (have a final rating of 85 or more before any Veterans preference points) for this vacancy. Click here for more information about CTAP eligibility on OPM's website.
What You'll Do
- →Specific duties include: The incumbent advises and makes recommendations to the Deputy Director of TRIAD on business specifications and requirements, including data and report, application design, training and implementation, rollout strategy, and other technical and non-technical aspects of education adjudication and stakeholder systems.
- →Uses a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to determine short and long-range program goals, direct and conduct studies, analyze findings, and make recommendations for improvement of program effectiveness and efficiency.
- →Formulates, implements, and interprets policies.
- →Develops and presents briefings to senior level (Directors/SESs), civilians, and contractors.
- →Participate in the establishment of system-wide and local monitors and controls to meet federal government and industry standards and directs recommended and accepted risk methodology.
- →Manage the coordination of assigned EDU mission-related IT system solution goals and facilitate adjustments as appropriate.
- →Manage the implementation of program and project plans to meet planned IT system solution objectives.
- →Manage program/project management and systems lifecycles to include: acquisition, development, modification, enhancement, deployment or decommissioning of a product, service or system which may consist of one more Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS), Software as a Service (SAAS), and/or internally developed software business application technologies.
- →The product, service, or system may be developed internally using VA IT staff resources or procured from commercial sources and integrated into the VA enterprise.
- →Manage program and budget resources valued up to the hundreds of millions of dollars, in order to deliver highly complex information technologies via one or multiple projects.
- →Prepare, justify and/or monitor the program budget.
- →Plan, administer, and monitor expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of program and projects; assess financial condition of the program and project.
- →Provide oversight for risk management and reporting.
- →Provide oversight for the development of information systems testing strategies, plans or scenarios working with stakeholder and OIT and/or contractor representatives.
Requirements
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary 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 or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 You may be required to serve a probationary period Subject to background/security investigation Selectees are required to service a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements I-9 Acceptable Documents.
- ✓No Education Substitution
Personality Fit
Job ID: 3c9deef5-5ff9-416a-a1f3-5f63974bd5e4
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