USA Staffing

Eligibilities

1. Are you currently employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.

To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.

A. Yes

B. No

2. Are you a current or former federal employee displaced from the agency hiring for this position? If yes, confirm:

you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
your grade is equivalent to or below the grade level of the vacancy; AND,
your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.

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To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.

A. Yes

B. No

Preferences

1. Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?

If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.

A. Yes, I am considered a political appointee as described under 5 U.S.C. sections 5312 through 5316.

B. Yes, I am considered a Non-career Senior Executive Service (SES), Limited Term SES, Limited Emergency SES Executive Branch employee.

C. Yes, I am considered a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or appointee who served in a political capacity under agency-specific authority in the Executive Branch.

D. Yes, I am considered a political appointee in the Executive Branch (as described in a., b. or c above) in a covered position in an agency having an interchange agreement with OPM, which allows movement from the agency's system to the competitive civil service.

E. None of the above. I am not considered a current or recent (last 5 years) political appointee as described above in items a, b, c, or d.

Assessment 1

The following section is used to determine whether you meet the minimum qualifications for the position. Please select the most appropriate response to the following questions. Do not overstate or understate your level of experience and demonstrated capability. Select only one response.

1. I am a current or former Federal employee in a permanent career or career-conditional appointment, and I have at least one (1) year (time-in-grade) at the GS-9 grade level.

A. Yes

B. No

The following section is used to determine your job-related experience and/or education. Your education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform the work. Please select the most appropriate response to the following questions. Select only one response. DISCLAIMER: Do not overstate or understate your level of experience and demonstrated capability. You should be aware that your selections are subject to evaluation and verification based on the resume and other relevant documents you submit. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your stated level of experience and demonstrated capability. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you or for dismissing you from the position following acceptance. You will be asked at the end of this questionnaire to certify your entire application as true and accurate.

2. From the descriptions below, please select the response that BEST reflects your level of experience that qualifies you for Management and Program Analyst GS-0343-11.

A. I have one (1) full year or more, of specialized experience performing work that is in or related to the work of this position as described in the vacancy announcement. This experience is equivalent to at least the GS-9 level in the federal service.

B. I possess a Ph.D. degree or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LLM, if related. (Note: YOU MUST SUBMIT COPIES OF YOUR OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS for your education to be considered).

C. I have less than the full amount of experience as described in A and I have less than the full amount of education as described in B. However, I have a combination of experience as described in A and education as described in B above. (Note: YOU MUST SUBMIT COPIES OF YOUR OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS for your education to be considered).

D. My experience and/or education are not reflected in any of the above statements therefore I am not qualified.

The following section is used to determine your eligibility for meeting the area of consideration requirement. Select the response below that best represents your eligibility for this position.

3. Are you a current employee in a permanent career or career conditional appointment under the Department of Veterans Affairs?

A. Yes

B. No

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