Job Summary

This position is in the Medical Disability Examination Office. MDEO ensures Veterans receive timely and high-quality disability examinations worldwide. The Assistant Director, Acquisitions and Budget Staff, is directly responsible for managing and monitoring the world-wide multiple-billion dollar contracts for these disability examinations to include funding and invoicing.

Job Description

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement: 10/19/2026. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: As a current Federal, GS employee you must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level. If you are a current VBA employee requesting reassignment or change to lower grade via this vacancy announcement, you must currently hold the GS- 14 or higher and the promotion potential of your current position must be at least None. 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. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-14 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: The applicant must document experience with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of a Lead Budget Analyst and that is typically gained through work in or directly related to federal budget formulation and execution. Applicants must demonstrate experience applying an in-depth knowledge of complex laws, regulations, policies, and Federal legislation governing the planning, development, justification, presentation, and execution of a federal budget. Experience must include analyzing and evaluating program requirements, developing budget estimates, preparing a variety of budget documents-including program justifications, impact analyses, and briefing materials-and advising leadership on budgetary implications. In addition, applicants must demonstrate experience performing lead or senior-level responsibilities such as providing technical guidance to staff, reviewing the work of others for accuracy and compliance, leading budget development processes, coordinating cross-functional budget activities, and ensuring the timely completion of assignments in support of organizational goals. 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: The work is sedentary, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. There may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items, such as papers, books, small parts; or boxes. No special physical demands are required to perform the work. 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/. 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/.