The Lead Transportation Assistant position is at the full performance level located within the Veterans Transportation Service (VTS) at the Audie L. Murphy VAMC, in San Antonio, Texas.
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/07/2025. 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-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. 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. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Apply extensive transportation regulations, methods, and practices; Organize and maintain documentation and records; Pull data and create reports; Knowledge of beneficiary travel reimbursements; Validation, control and maintaining accounting records. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: -Administration and Management -Problem Solving -Education and Training -Communication -Decision Making 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 requires no special physical demands, but will require some physical effort such as standing, walking, bending or sitting. 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/.
Duties may include but are not limited to: -Distribute and balance the workload among employees in accordance with established work flow or job specialization, assure timely accomplishment of the assigned workload. -Keep in touch with the status and progress of work, and make day- to- day adjustments in accordance with stablished priorities, obtaining assistance from the supervisor on problems that may arise. -Estimate and report on expected time of completion of work, and maintain records of work accomplishments and time expended and prepare production reports as requested. -Instruct employees in specific tasks and job techniques and make available written instructions, reference materials and supplies. -Give on the job training to new employees in accordance with established procedures and practices. -Maintain a current knowledge and answer questions of other employees on procedures, policies, directives, etc. and obtain needed information or decisions from supervisor on problems that come up. -Check on work in progress or spot check work not requiring review (e. g., filing or direct services) and review completed work to see that supervisor's instruction on work sequence, procedures, methods and deadlines have been met. -Amend or reject work not meeting established standards, refer to supervisor questions or matters not covered by standards and problems in meeting performance standards. -Monitor working conditions such as seating, ventilation, lighting, safety, etc. -Approve leave for a few hours or for emergencies. -Inform employees of available services and employee activities. -Resolve simple, informal complaints of employees and refer others to supervisor. -Report to supervisor on performance, progress and training needs of employees, and on behavior problems. -Provide information to supervisor as requested concerning promotions, reassignment, recognition of outstanding performance, and personnel needs. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:30a.m. to 4:00p.m. or 8:00a.m. to 4:30p.m. or 10:00a.m. to 6:30p.m. Telework: Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Lead Transportation Assistant/PD671-3929-O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized