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In this position, you will be advising executive management and senior-level staff on all procurement actions for assigned organizations and determining the types of procurement instruments to be issued and which best meet the needs of the agency for all serviced functions/offices. Typical assignments include:

• Soliciting, evaluating, negotiating, awarding, administering, analyzing, advising on, and/or terminating contracts for the procurement of supplies and services for major complex contracts utilizing various contract methods and types that include cost reimbursement, cost-plus-fixed-fee; firm-fixed price, incentive, etc. and to procure large, highly complex, and significant equipment systems, programs, services, or construction where little or no contractual precedent exists (for example, clean-up equipment, etc.).
• Advising management and staff on the instruments and guidance for the expedient delivery of goods and services in support of various programs and operations and executing awards consistent with agency policy, occasionally under urgent and compelling circumstances.
• Performing cradle to grave contract actions utilizing various contracting types, vehicles, and methods.

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At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

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• You will provide assistance for collaborative support and services to include the Microsoft 365 collaboration environment, SharePoint online applications, and Windows SharePoint Services applications.
• You will build and foster virtual teams across the command, components, partners, and civilian agencies to enhance collaboration and promote knowledge sharing.
• You will provide collaborative support and service capabilities by supporting, maintaining, and modifying policies, projects, and portal environments to accomplish the mission.
• You will develop and deliver requirements and specifications from in-depth discussions with end-users and review proposed changes to existing collaborative environment for impact on resources.
• You will develop and implement solutions utilized within the collaborative environment and training program for operational users and evaluate alternative methodologies for analysis, implementation, and problem solving.
• You will retrieve intellectual data to develop, maintain, and enhance decision support briefings, tools, and metrics used to assists senior leadership with decision making efforts.
• You will evaluate, assess, and analyze resource, workload, customer satisfaction, and data to develop alternative courses of action supporting evaluative efforts provided to senior leadership.
• You will analyze data flows, dependencies, and relationships in order to identify ways to improve efficiency and quality of collaborative business process.
• You will develop business intelligence practices that enable a data centered approach to identifying, retrieving, evaluating, and sharing enterprise knowledge to meet mission objectives.

Serves as a training instructor in a vocational or occupational training program in the Education Department of a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional facility and may also serve as a program coordinator for other vocational/occupational training programs.

Selects and/or develops curriculums which focus on the appropriate vocational training area.

This position has direct responsibility for the delivery of classroom training for vocational and apprenticeship courses in the field/trade of Culinary Arts.

Develops a curriculum design and record-keeping system to organize and track student progress through identified course work.

Ensures the training program(s) are implemented and delivered in compliance with Bureau policies, Department of Labor, and Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training regulations, and the standards established by other certifying agencies and organizations.

Serve as apprenticeship program coordinator with responsibility for coordinating the various occupational training programs and classes, as well as responsibilities which include development, review and evaluation of the vocational trades program.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.

Responsible for managing and directing the administrative activities of a multi-disciplinary team of health care professionals who are responsible for the medical, dental and allied health services of the facility, and in collaboration with the Clinical Director, overseeing the provision of the best possible patient care to the inmate population.

The health care services provided include inpatient and outpatient care in either an institution setting or at a local hospital, as well as routine health maintenance services, emergency services and chronic care of inmates with long term illnesses.

Serves as a cost center manager to prepare estimates and administer an annual budget and manages a procurement system to provide adequate levels of medical, surgical, dental and pharmaceutical supplies.

Develops and coordinates internal review systems to assure compliance of the standards of the American Correctional Association (ACA) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations (JCAHO), as well as other regulatory groups and higher agency authorities.

Implements the agency’s re-entry initiatives including timely Inmate Skills Assessment data entry at admission and evaluation of health status documented in an updated electronic exit summary at release.

Ensures the provision of release medications and electronic transmission of health records to community healthcare providers rendering continued medical or mental health care when applicable.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.

- Responsible for organizing and coordinating an effective receiving operation. Responsible for organizing and coordinating an effective storage operation.

- Performs tasks involved in issuing and shipping items. Maintains records and documents actions.

- Assists in accomplishing inventories by counting items and properly completing tally listings and other inventory documents.

- Operates forklift trucks, automated material handling and identification equipment to include mobile stock selectors and electromechanical automated equipment such as high-rise automated storage and retrieval vehicles to move, stack and unstack, load and unload, bin, and position material.

- Performs material handling duties, including the use of tools and other equipment, in a safe manner, utilizing safety practices and procedures, and complying with established safety rules and regulations.

Specific duties include:

• Prepares, assembles, and correlates information in connection with surveys and one-time reports required by Central Office, the Area Office, the Regional Office (RO), or Division management regarding administrative support functions from other divisions and outside sources of data.
• Processes incoming and outgoing materials such as correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other forms of written communications.
• Reviews and analyzes these materials, determines action necessary, researches and assembles background information, and refers said materials to the appropriate section when necessary.
• Edits documents, composes letters and reports, reviews correspondence for accuracy and completeness, prepares public presentation outlines, and develops standard for form letters and replies to inquiries.
• Liaises with the customer and identifies requirements for equipment purchase, lease, trade-in, excess, move to another location, warranty periods, etc. and then passes those requirements on to the appropriate Administrative Section staff for action.
• The incumbent maintains the official station control log / history file for circulars, bulletins, and memoranda and assigns numbers and dates and recession / retention folders on these as required.
• Reviews and makes changes/ corrections to the RO's controlled publications (circulars, bulletins, memoranda) to ensure proper format is used. Updates and revises publications issued by SSD and prepares "Justification for Proposed Field Station Issue" for appropriate concurrence.
• Maintains the confidential records for SSD, including records concerning individual performance, disciplinary actions, awards, and similar information for all employees of the Division.
• As a purchase card holder, always secures purchase card, identifies correct accounting string or budget object codes (BOCs) for appropriate transactions as required within VA 's credit card system.
• Maintains receipts or other necessary documentation for reconciliation purposes. Reconciles statements and forwards to approving officials within required time frames.
• Serves as the principal timekeeper for SSD and may support other division timekeeper needs by serving as an alternate timekeeper. May have duties in the PIV issuance process and may serve as one of the facility's PIV Card issuers.
• Receives all SSD visitors and callers. Screens telephone calls for the SSD Chief and forwards only those calls requiring the Division Chiefs attention.

• Utilizes a wide range of concepts, principles and methodologies of the therapeutic field to provide on/offsite emergency evaluations, examinations, diagnoses, prognoses, interventions, and outcome assessments of injured military personnel.
• Serves as the unit's Athletic Trainer Subject Matter Expert (SME) on injury prevention and reconditioning techniques.
• Trains the trainers (cadre, human performance, and medical staff) on athletic training principles, concepts, and protocols.
• Provides clear, concise analyses of prevention and rehabilitation results through direct observations, interviews, surveys, and focused collection of athletic training performance metrics.

Advanced Diagnostic Radiologic Technologist. Employees are trained to work in one or more difficult and complex modalities performing procedures related to these modalities as well as performing general diagnostic procedures. At this grade level, any assignment in a single modality must demonstrate significant complexity. Such assignments are unique, perhaps with expert specialization in complex areas of radiologic technology, Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) regulations, and intermediate QM type duties within the program.

Technologist at this level requires advance education in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, ISTAT applications, insertion of intravenous catheter in patient's peripheral vein for IV contrast, injection training and knowledge of general imaging radiography. Employees at this level is considered fully functional and able to carry out their assigned tasks independently. Performs technical work in support of Diagnostic Radiology under the direct supervision of a physician. Position is that of a radiologic technologist operating the super conductive Magnetic Resonance Imager (MRI), a highly complex computerized imaging device which employs the use of strong magnetic fields and radio waves to acquire images.

This specialty modality requires additional knowledge of super conduction magnets, the physics of superconducting magnets, and how they relate to the human anatomy in medical imaging. The technologist must be educated in the safety factors governing a magnetic environment that patients, visitors, and equipment enter into. The practitioner must have specific specialized knowledge of cross-sectional anatomy and how it relates to the soft tissues and vessels of the human body. The technologist must also have a specialized knowledge in the radiofrequency surface coils required for each specific anatomical area to be imaged. The technologist requires knowledge of image acquisition in Computerized/Digital Radiography (CR/DR) and Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS). This subspecialty requires advanced ARRT certification in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR).

Duties include but are not limited to:

• The incumbent serves as an operator of a super conductive magnetic resource unit. The operator will be developing new techniques, defining optimal protocols, and devising alternatice ways to visualize pathology within the patient. Interaction with physician, physicists, computer programmers, and biomed engineers will be normal occurrences of the daily duties of the operator.
• The incumbent provides patient care, which is appropriate to the cognitive, emotional, and chronological maturation needs of the adult and/or geriatric patient. Positions patient within the examiner unit (MRI), monitors patient during all phases of the examination, and removes patient from the influence of the magnetic field upon completion of the data acquisition.
• Coordinates the radiologist, MRSO and physicist to determine the most ideal parameters to the pulse the magnet for each individualized patient examination. Programs technical factors by Interrogating computer console and responding with inputs that will result in the parameters of pulse form, pulse sequence, slice profile, ect. Monitors the examination by checking Computations, performances, and results of the selected parameters to obtain the best diagnostic computer-generated data and images.
• Assists manufacturer representatives and biomedical engineers in the calibration and troubleshooting of malfunctions associated with the MRI unit. Establishes and monitors quality control programs. Maintains examination log, computer data and technical parameters on each examination.
• MEDVAMC is a teaching institute which requires the technologist to assist/train radiologist, and other technologist/technicians, students from affiliated institutions, and other health care professionals in PACS. Maintains supplies required for all MRI examinations. Maintains records on all patients and examination performed and contrast used by sending all completed exams to VISTA and Carestream PACs for permanent storage.
• PERFORMS ADVANCED LEVEL ASPECTS OF MRI IMAGING, such as MR Breast, MR Cardiac, and MR Functional Neuro studies utilizing specialized sequences to visualize the anatomy and pathology necessary for diagnosis.

• Assesses progress in assigned projects/programs including cost estimates, schedules, and performance supportability baseline requirements by applying known methods and procedures.
• Plans, organizes, and coordinates activities of functional specialists including contracting, security, equipment, lifecycle maintenance, configuration/data management, and logistics.
• Reviews and directs the progress of contractors in meeting program objectives.
• Prepares and presents staff studies for presentation to the Program Director and other management officials.

• Responsible for the coordination on all aspects of shipping/storage of goods.
• Interprets guidelines and instructions, determines the approach, and adapts the process, to resolve customer concerns.
• Estimates or validates charges, not limited to handling services, temporary storage, third-party services, mileage rates and accessorial services.
• Conducts statistical samplings and audits to execute program oversight of commercial industry.

• Performs and/or assists other recreation assistants or specialists in the operation and maintenance of indoor and outdoor recreation facilities.

• Arranges for issue of equipment or tools, charging them out to participants, and checking them for condition upon their return

• Takes inventory of authorized recreation supplies and equipment; and helps with group activities which require more than one staff member, performing specifically assigned tasks.

• Responsible for operating the cash register, collecting money, making change, and issuing receipts.

• Performs professional mechanical engineering work in support of the development and sustainment of maintenance training systems, subsystems, and/or support equipment.
• Develops system performance requirements, objectives and integration, and the estimation of time and resources for system design, development, and support.
• Performs analysis and uses systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approaches to implement, develop, and document projects.
• Performs development engineering for systems and devices.

Specific duties include:

• Working closely with the Director and Assistant Directors in formulating station policy and planning station actions based on local needs and Central Office directives.
• Leading the training and change management activities across business lines within the Regional Office (RO) and focusing on implementing changes to business processes, systems, technology, and job roles.
• Assisting the Director and Assistant Directors in assessing priorities and resources needed to meet program objectives through the development and execution of stakeholder communication, relationship management, and organizational change management strategies.
• Reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating division reports and statistical data to provide advice to management on training, change management, production, and quality goals and objectives. These reports are communicated verbally and in writing.
• Assisting the Director and Assistant Directors in developing a training and change management strategy to include a communication plan, implementation of a roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, and resistance management plan.
• Providing formalized training and recommending, as appropriate, revisions to procedures or policy to correct deficient areas based upon trends noted on quality reviews, by using review results, regulations, directives, and other relevant material to train employees specific to their division work.
• Serving as the primary Training Management System subject matter expert for the station.
• Providing sound advice and guidance to station management in achieving the RO's objectives.

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Major duties include, but not limited to:

• Demonstrates knowledge of more complex examination and treatment procedures such as Signal Average (Late Potential) Electrocardiograms, Tilt table testing, event monitoring, T wave alternans and provides occasional back-up for Echo-cardiograms. Must be able to provide training and supervision in these procedures, to develop analysis interpretation formats and receive inquiries about results. Technician must be able to independently monitor blood pressures, heart rates, rhythm strips, and alerting the physician of any abnormalities and /or arrhythmias.
• Must be able to write policies, procedures and protocols pertaining to electrocardiography.
• Responsible for instructing respiratory students, nursing students, medical students, and hospital staff on acquiring, maintaining of the electrocardiogram machines.
• Responsible for maintaining Critical test results and monthly statistical reports, analyzing completed tests for quality assurance and diagnostic quality. Monitors and maintains statistical records for EKG Lab at all locations and prepares monthly reports for all sites. Analyzes, maintains, and files all recorded studies performed in laboratory, ensuring the correct completion of patients' records, and proper dissemination of patient charts and records
• for all sites.
• Must have knowledge of JCAHO and other regulatory requirements.
• Performs editing of physician's interpretations of all procedures to include all CBOCS into the MUSE System and VISTA Imaging. Responsible for all CPT Encounter Coding. Responsible for ensuring staff is familiar with Clinical Procedures.
• Maintains the MUSE SYSTEM with basic trouble shooting to include all cardiac equipment. Works closely with BIO-MED to solve problems.
• Responsible for new CPT coding with no clerical support for the expanded role that Cardiology now plays with outlying clinics and new procedures which include Stress Dobutamine and TEE Echo-cardiograms. Responsible for the computerized consults for all procedures; view, receive, complete consults with no clerical support. Ensures that all reports have been dictated by physician.
• Responsible that all sites are working correctly (via Muse System & VISTA and other systems as needed in the future), and makes sure equipment is working properly (and order equipment and supplies).

The primary purpose of this position is: To serve as a professional Foreign Affairs Specialist Country Manager in support of Department of Defense (DoD) agencies. Serves as the USAF's subject matter expert and primary point of contact for planning and executing of assigned Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case(s) training requirements including acquisition, contracting milestones, programming, logistics, finance, monitors student requirements and tracking, tracking assigned FMS cases, and training development.

• The Case/County Manager (CM) is the focal point for case/country and IMS student activities and manages all aspects of the FMS case(s)
• The CM serves as USAF focal point for all international student issues in support of the assigned countries' training programs
• The CM will be the liaison between managed countries' representatives, SCOs, MAJCOMs, and other USG agencies to ensure implementation of training for and by these agencies
• Develops and initiates proper documentation, including estimated training costs, training sequences, and identification of potential problem areas based on factors unique to the requesting countries
• Develops official correspondence, messages, and items of interest, staff summaries, sheets, and talking papers relative to assigned programs