Summary

This position is located in the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Office of Mission Support (OMS), Privacy Act Automation Directorate. The incumbent serves in a Supervisory capacity as Director, Privacy Act Automation Directorate and is a vital link responsible for providing a wide range of service-oriented activities, which supports and provides a high level of administrative expertise in coordinating Privacy Act policy requirements.

Duties

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Specific duties include:

• Assists the Executive Director and Associate Deputy Director of OMS with the management and technical expertise in providing executive reviews and analysis, facilitating actions between internal and external customers and stakeholders to ensure the Privacy Act Automation Program is compliant and in alignment with federal regulations, guidelines, standard operating procedures, and advising senior level management on key and significant issues that may impact the timely outcome through the use of cost, time and scope of the project.
• Responsible for leading and overseeing complex projects for compliance and timely completion with all applicable VBA Central Office policies and procedures covering Freedom of Information (FOIA), Privacy Act, access of veterans and their families, employees, contractors, Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act, Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) 2014, VA, and OMB guidance and other areas of administrative information.
• Oversees the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) for major acquisition activities related to Privacy Act Automation. Directs and ensures collaboration with VBA senior management and legal counsel to establish and maintain an organization wide FOIA/Privacy Program. Ensures the performance of initial and periodic privacy risk assessments and related ongoing compliance monitoring activities in coordination with VA FOIA services, VA Privacy Services, Privacy and Records Assessment Division (PRAD), OIG, and all other VBA components.
• Advises management and colleagues on the most difficult problems, conducts special studies, and proposes options and alternatives representing the organization. Provides policy recommendations. Promotes identification of potential improvement opportunities and advised management of these opportunities. Assists management officials (site directors, deputy directors, vendors, customers, stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SME's) and others in defining project scope, priority, and project staffing, with an emphasis on projects that cut across organizational/activity lines and deal with complex issues. Optimizes scarce resources, meets customer requirements, reduces rework, improves operational capacity, and increases quality.
• Develops strategies and plans for the adoption and replication of best practices and ideas. Provides leadership and technical support in project lifecycle management. Provides expert advice and assistance to OMS Executive Leadership and top senior level management officials, legal counsel, Office of Inspector General (OIG). Provides management of other related organizations and support activities involve in ensuring the effective training of personnel.
• Provides oversight of Privacy Act Automation Program management, contractual support, budget for General Operating Expenses (GOE) purchases, expert point of contact in responding to Congress, the public, the media, other agencies, and employees and officials of the Department who are seeking information about interpretation, policy process and procedure and/or technical assistance concerning access and privacy laws administered by the VA.
• Provides world class customer experience and ensures all customer's issues and requests are properly addressed and forwarded to the appropriate contact for resolution. Cognizant in providing quality customer service through effective verbal and non-verbal communications and ensuring issues that arise have been properly notified and completed.
• Set priorities, plans and assigns work, keeps employees informed of new policies, interviews candidates for vacant positions and make hiring recommendations, makes recommendation for promoting non-supervisory staff when appropriate, makes decisions on problems presented by subordinates, evaluates performance, resolves grievances, refers group grievances, and unresolved complaints to higher level officials, initiates minor disciplinary actions such as warnings or admonishments, recommends action in more serious cases, and prepares and monitors progress on employee individual development plans.

Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday

Compressed/Flexible: Not Available

Telework: Not Available.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Government Information Specialist; GS-0306-15 PD# 422480

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

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, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

• 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 period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selectees are required to service a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

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.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:08/07/2026.

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.

• For a GS-15 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-14 level.

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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

GS-15 Grade Level:

• Specialized Experience: 1 year equivalent to at least next lower grade level
  
  • Comprehensive knowledge of FOIA/Privacy Act for full privacy automation management and ability to lead privacy act automation activities as expert for point of contact for automation concerns.
  • Expert knowledge of policies and contingency operations to conceptualize, develop and/or modify program policies, procedures, and methods to effectuate decision-making processes concerning FOIA and Privacy Act requirements.
  • Experience and exceptional ability in supervision and leadership to coordinate and integrate several very important and complex program segments or programs of professional, scientific, technical, managerial, or administrative work comparable to the GS-14 or higher level.
  • Experience managing program evaluations, development of reports on program status and management of data systems for the program, and the provision of information and advice to field activities.
  • Experience in planning and managing multi-year financial budgets and reporting requirements.

Volunteer Experience: 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.

Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week.

Physical Requirements: Position is sedentary.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer (TJO). Please visit the Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP), va.gov/EMPLOYEE/docs/The-Fair-Chance-to-Compete-Act.pdf for more information.

The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified (have a final rating of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.

If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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