Time and Leave Clerk

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The position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), at the VA Western Colorado Health Care System, in the Clinical Management Service (Nursing). The primary purpose of the Time and Leave Clerk is to provide timekeeping and other clerical support for the Nursing Service of approximately 225 employees including Associate Chief Nurses and is the primary timekeeper for approximately 9 groups of time and attendance records. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/02/2026. 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-5 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-4. 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. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. 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-4 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Verify & electronically posts time and attendance records. Maintaining/editing the tour of duty lists. Checking leave balances of employees to ensure accuracy. Entering Electronic requests for overtime, compensatory time. Responsible for advising appropriate supervisors on a variety of items pertaining to pay plans, tours of duty, timekeeping coding, premium pay, compensatory time, etc. Responsible for analyzing time and leave coding errors and processing required corrections in the time and attendance records and obtaining the higher-level supervisory approvals. Answers all telephone, email and personal inquires on time and leave coding and records for assigned employees. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must possess four (4) years of education above the high school level in any field for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite. This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. One year of full-time academic study is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university, or at least 20 hours of classroom instruction per week for approximately 36 weeks in a business, secretarial, or technical school. OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must possess a combination of successfully completed education and experience to meet the total experience requirements. (i.e. 6 months of specialized experience and 3 years of education above the high school level). NOTE: Only education beyond the second year can be used in combination with specialized experience to qualify for this grade. 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/.

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