Supervisory Training Specialist

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:11/02/2026. 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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09 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. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement: This position does have an IOR that must be met in addition to the Time-in-Grade and regular Specialized Experience qualifications. In order to qualify for this position, you must have the education or experience listed below: Education: Possess a Ph. D. or equivalent graduate degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in Education or a subject area related to this position. OR Experience: that demonstrates a practical knowledge of the subject area of the position and of the methods and techniques of instruction. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Teaching or instructing in an adult education program, secondary school, college, military installation, or industrial establishment in the appropriate field(s); Supervising or administering a training program; Development or review of training/course materials, aids, devices, etc., and evaluation of training results; Work in the occupation or subject-matter field of the position to be filled that required training or instructing others on a regular basis. Specialized Experience: Applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-09). Specialized experience is defined as experience in at least two (2) of the three (3) following areas: Planning, assigning, and reviewing work of others with authority over the work product. Researching laws, regulations, and Federal legislation in applying full range of Veterans' benefits programs to assist Veterans, their beneficiaries, and representatives. Coaching and training others by developing training guidelines and objectives, instructional methods and course material. Develops course material such as learning analyses, lesson plans, tests/evaluations, student guides, practical exercises and training manuals. Combining Education & Experience: If you do not fully meet the length of experience and education described for a specific grade level (e.g. have six months of experience and some coursework but not a degree), the two can be combined to total 100% of the requirement. Click here for more information. 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 normally involves mental rather than physical exertion. The work is mostly 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/. This vacancy announcement is open ONLY to current, permanent Salt Lake City, Utah VBA Regional Office employees and current/former VA employees who are CTAP eligible. For the purpose of this job announcement, Fiduciary Hub bargaining unit employees in the commuting area are considered facility employees.

• Specific duties include: Provides FY National Training Requirements to RCC management: reviews compliance and revises RCC training plan as needed; Responsible for planning, programming, coordinating, supervising, managing, directing and/or reviewing all activities of new employees; Maintains an NCC Training Library with complete reference manuals; Ensures that any work processed by trainees is reviewed 100% of the time to evaluate performance; Serves as TMS administrator: assign training, build learning plans, run reports, manage user accounts, coordinate technical support; Serves as subject matter expert for the RCC. Promotion Potential: None Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday; Duty Hours 8:00 am - 4:30 pm MST Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Not Applicable/This is a remote position. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Training Specialist; PD37006A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required