Administrative Officer

This position is to support Facility Management Service (FMS) at the Boise VA Medical Center (Boise VAMC). The Incumbent works directly for the Chief of FMS. FMS is comprised of over 125 professional and wage grade staff working under the following sections: Office of the Chief; Safety, Industrial Hygiene, GEMS, Disaster Preparedness; Engineering/Projects; Operations, Maintenance, and Construction; Environmental Management Service (EMS); and Laundry.

**Qualifications:**
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet time-in-grade and specialized experience requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement, 04/21/2026. 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. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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: GS-7 Requirements: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-5 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Assisting with development, implementation, maintenance of administrative operations within the service, assisting with monitoring, managing administrative activities such as recruitment, and hiring, budget management, resource utilization, suspense management, policy management, timekeeping, training compliance, personnel mapping, reporting requirements and personnel management. NOTE: 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 their resume. OR, Education: PLEASE SEE EDUCATION BELOW FOR DETAILS. OR, Superior Academic Achievement (SAA): PLEASE SEE EDUCATION BELOW FOR DETAILS. OR, Combination: PLEASE SEE EDUCATION BELOW FOR DETAILS. GS-9 Requirements: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-7 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Assists with budget formulation and management; prepares a variety of budget analyses and maintains budget records. Exercises responsibility for budget formulation, presentation, and execution. Provides the customer with consistent information according to established policies and procedures. Assists staff with personnel management program actions including recruitment, classification, staffing, training, and travel. Prepares and oversees preparation of a wide variety of documents, including policies, position descriptions, performance standards, reports. NOTE: 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 in their resume. OR, Education: PLEASE SEE EDUCATION BELOW FOR DETAILS. OR, Combination: PLEASE SEE EDUCATION BELOW FOR DETAILS. GS-11 Requirements: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Independently performing duties such as coordination of surveys and reports, Performance improvement activities, Policy development, Budget and financial management, Procurement and contracting, Statistical and other administrative functions; Planning, reviewing, or revising policies and procedures that impact patient care and service policy. Prepares and assembles charts, data, reports, narratives, and statistical materials that are provided for justification for the budget. Projects staffing needs and prepares performance plans and appraisals. NOTE: 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. OR, Education: PLEASE SEE EDUCATION BELOW FOR DETAILS. OR, Combination: PLEASE SEE EDUCATION BELOW FOR DETAILS. Preferred Experience: Microsoft programs including: Power Automate, Power Apps, Microsoft List, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Teams. 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/. Your experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hours worked per week. 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. 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.