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To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/08/2026. 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-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. For a GS-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07.

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: Program Analyst GS-07: Specialized Experience: Must have at least 1 year equivalent to the GS-05 level, that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.

To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes but is not limited to: coordinate and monitor all FMS M&O work channels, supports a wider scope of services both "in-house" M&O and construction to providing re-occurring annual service contracts, providing support to the VAMHCS which includes maintenance and repair activities, and indirectly supporting nearly all departments in the VAMHCS including: Safety; and Green Environmental Management and Industrial Hygiene, and the PENTAD (VAMHCS Executive Office) with various high visibility requests and requirements.

OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have 1 full year of graduate level education or superior academic achievement. OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages.

The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9 and GS-11. Program Analyst GS-09: Specialized Experience: Must have at least 1 year equivalent to the GS-07 level, that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.

To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes but is not limited to: Resource Management, that includes Personnel, Financial, Materials & Property, Administrative Management, that includes performing a variety of duties related to Quality Assurance / Management and Program Analysis that provide information (data, reports, research, etc.) to management and facilitate management orders to effectively manage all programs that fall under the service, assisting in the development and monitoring of various performance measures and/or action plans required to improve current performance, serving as Automatic Data Processing Application Coordinator (ADPAC) for entire projects section, Oversee gathering and organizing data from Maintenance and Operations shops, creating reports and assist in the development of ongoing project priority listings, Contract Procurement and Management that includes assisting the M&O staff Healthcare Engineer(s) and M&O Supervisors with their Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) administrative functions OR, Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B.

or J.D., if related OR, Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages.

The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9 and GS-11. 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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