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Lebanon VA Medical Center

Program Support Assistant

Pay: Not specified

Posted: 2 weeks ago

Location: Lebanon, PA (Onsite)

Last Updated: 1 week ago

Hours: Full-Time

Expires: 10/4/2026

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What they do

A Project or Program Administrative Assistant provides administrative assistance to a program team or project management team. Organizes files and assists with record keeping and data base management. Manages team calendars and helps to organize meetings and events. Provides administrative support for program activities, financial reports and budgets, grants or project proposals; may help to arrange travel.

$57,419 / year median in Pennsylvania

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Job Description

This Program Support Assistant position is located at the Lebanon VA Medical Center in the High Reliability Service (HRO) . The purpose of this position is to coordinate administrative and support services to assist the HRO in fulfilling requirements related to VHA's academic mission and program requirements of Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) and HPE accrediting bodies.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/10/2026.

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-6 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-5. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

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 performing administrative functions, office operations and technology support for an organization, establishing and maintaining filing systems, experience using automated software applications such as Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access and Power Point), typing letters, memos and reports and maintaining calendars and schedules. 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/ .