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Supervisory Vocational Rehab Counselor
Veterans Benefits Administration · Posted 56 days ago
About the Role
The Veterans Benefits Administration has a wide network of field locations where personnel provide Servicemembers, Veterans, their dependents, and survivors with information, advice and assistance regarding the availabilty and procurement of benefits under laws and regulations administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other agencies. One of the long-standing services is Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Services at the VBA Regional Office.
What You'll Do
- →Duties are divided between counseling duties and case management which include the following: Directs the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VRE) Program, which performs technical, administrative, and professional work.
- →Serves as the Regional Office's professional and technical expert in conducting, administering, and advising in the areas of education, training, testing, evaluation . counseling, rehabilitation, psychology, job development, job placement, and entitlement.
- →Provides administrative and technical direction and professional leadership to a professional and technical staff of Counseling Psychologists, Rehabilitation Counselors, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialists, Employment/Program Specialists, and support staff as well as providing oversight of contractors.
- →Oversees a team of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors (VRCs) and other staff in the Veterans Benefits Administration (\/BA) Regional Office (RO),RO Out-based office locations, Vet Success On Campus (VSOC) school sites, or Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) locations on military installations.
- →Develops short- and Long-term plans to assure work is accomplished in a timely manner, is of acceptable quality, and accomplishes the changing initiatives and emphasis established by VA Central Office managers, as well as local management policy changes and procedural modifications.
- →Ensures that his/her staff provides expert and high-quality services to the Veterans with a service-connected disability such as vocational counseling and consultation; counseling interventions; and superb case management.
- →Responsible for managing allocated budgetary resources and for authorizing and supervising the expenditure of funds such as staff travel, beneficiary travel, tools, supplies, equipment, revolving fund loans, tutoring or reader services, individual instructor fees, tuition, and subsistence allowances.
- →Provides counseling, training, and employment services to all eligible beneficiaries within the state.
- →Activities and services provided by the VR&E Program directly and significantly impact a wide range of agency activities.
- →The VR&E Program deals with the direct payment of benefits to Veterans and dependents as well as providing payment for educational programs which can typically cost many thousands of dollars.
- →Provides the Regional Office Director's full-time assistant, the Director, who is authorized, a clear line of authority.
- →Directs the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program, which encompasses between 1650 and 2000 participants at any point in time.
- →The program administers approximately $10 million in expenditures from the Rehabilitation Benefits Account.
- →VR&E Officer exercises significant responsibility in dealing with other Division.
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 period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Additional Conditions of Employment are as follows: 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 or trial period.
- ✓You may be required to serve a supervisory probationary period.
- ✓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 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.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application.
- ✓It must include your coursework and date of conferral of a Masters degree in vocational rehabilitation (or related) field.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 005affe4-383b-4137-8638-67a8e1368dc3
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