Duties
Major duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Ensuring employee goals, progress reviews, and yearly evaluations are completed accurately and on schedule, and address performance issues quickly and fairly
- Reviewing team work products to ensure accuracy, compliance, and quality before they are submitted
- Handling disagreements constructively to maintain positive working relationships and a professional work environment
- Planning and assigning work based on priorities, complexity, and team capabilities, adjusting short-term schedules as needed
- Overseeing daily operations and allocating resources to balance workload with team capacity
- Distributing people and resources across projects to reduce bottlenecks and maintain productivity
- Conducting quality checks on staff deliverables to confirm accuracy and alignment with policies and procedures
- Reviewing real estate actions to verify technical adequacy and compliance with requirements and established processes
- Preparing or reviewing briefings, presentations, and documentation that require detailed analysis and accuracy
- Providing timely, accurate information and support to leaders, customers, and other stakeholders
- Keeping customers informed of changes that may affect scope, schedule, funding, or project milestones, including risks and mitigation plans
- Maintaining strong working relationships with colleagues and partners, representing the organization professionally in meetings and negotiations
- Listening to and resolving employee complaints and escalate serious issues to leadership when needed
- Addressing workplace issues, performance concerns, and accommodation requests promptly and fairly
- Modeling professionalism and cooperation, even during disagreements, to support team trust and unity
- Overseeing real estate and leasing activities and ensuring actions follow applicable laws, policies, and accepted industry practices.
- Ensuring staff apply correct procedures when planning, reviewing, and managing lease projects
- Representing the organization in obtaining and managing lease projects, resolving complex contractual or administrative issues as they arise
- Monitoring project timelines and costs, identifying potential issues early, and taking action to stay on schedule and within budget
- Allocating resources across the project portfolio to support cost-effective and timely completion of work
- Providing leaders with recommendations on real estate program decisions, including trade-offs involving cost, schedule, risk, and stakeholder impact
Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm
Compressed/Flexible Schedule: May be Available
Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Virtual/Remote: This is not a virtual position. Location is negotiable among VA-approved staff offices, subject to space availability and management approval. Applicants without an existing assigned VA staff office must be located within 50 miles of a CFM regional office to be considered.
This is not a remote position.
Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary with regular and recurring travel to proposed and ongoing construction sites. Site visits require the ability to walk over rough terrain, climb ladders and crawl in often tight spaces.
Position Description Title/PD#: Supervisory Realty Specialist/PD10033A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Required
Requirements
Conditions of employment
- You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
- Subject to a background/suitability investigation
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
- A complete application package; including Resume, Transcripts, etc. is required
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed.
Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement.
As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:
- your performance and conduct;
- the needs and interests of the agency;
- whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
- whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Qualifications
To qualify applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
You may qualify based on your experience as described below:
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes:
- Leading and supervising a team of realty specialists by planning work to be accomplished, setting and adjusting priorities, assigning projects based on complexity and staff capabilities, and reviewing work products for technical adequacy, policy compliance, and timeliness.
- Managing a portfolio of complex real property projects, monitoring scope, schedule, and budget, and holding staff accountable for delivering high-quality, compliant acquisition and lease execution results.
- Providing day-to-day supervisory leadership, including coaching and mentoring staff; conducting performance planning and evaluations; addressing performance and conduct issues; making hiring, promotion, and award recommendations; and identifying and arranging training and development opportunities.
- Representing the organization in high-level internal and external meetings, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to explain, justify, and resolve significant or controversial leasing issues.
- Interpreting and applying Federal real estate and acquisition statutes, regulations, and policies to provide authoritative guidance to staff on complex leasing matters, resolve escalated issues, and recommend process improvements that enhance program effectiveness and efficiency.
[NOTE: Evidence of this specialized experience must be supported by detailed documentation of like duties performed in positions held on your resume. You will also need to provide work experience information such as hours per week, salary, and starting/ending dates of employment (month and year format) to establish you have one (1) full year of specialized experience at the required grade level].
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.
The
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and
Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be found well qualified, applicants must meet the following qualifications:
- 3 years of real property leasing experience
- Lease Certification Program (LCP), Level I and/or a Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers (FAC-P/PM), Level I certifications
- Additional Real Estate, Project Management, Construction, and Leadership Continuous Learning Points
[Evidence of this specialized experience must be supported by detailed documentation of like duties performed in positions held on your resume].
Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.
Education
There is no educational substitution for the GS-14 level.
Additional information
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer (TJO). Please visit the Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP), va.gov/EMPLOYEE/docs/The-Fair-Chance-to-Compete-Act.pdf for more information.
VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website which can be found at https://www.opm.gov/.
Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.
Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
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How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Applicants will be referred in the order in which they were received.
Required Documents
Documents Accepted:
- Cover Letter
- DD-214/ Statement of Service
- Disability Letter (VA)
- Lease Certification Program (LCP) Certificate
- Performance Appraisal
- Professional Certification
- Resume
- Separation Notice (RIF)
- SF-15
- SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action
- Transcript
Documents Required:
- Professional Certification
- Resume
Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started.
Please review the above list(s) to ensure you have included all necessary documents required for your application.
Not every applicant will require the same documents, therefore it is the applicants responsibility to ensure that their application package includes all necessary documents to determine qualifications and eligibility for appointment, such as a copy of your SF-50, transcript, ICTAP/CTAP documentation (for displaced Federal employees).
You will not be contacted for additional information. Applicants will be deemed ineligible if supporting documentation is not submitted.
Veterans' Preference: Since the Direct-Hire Recruitment Authority is being used, traditional Veterans' Preference rules do not apply. Qualified veterans will, however, be given full consideration for this position.
Applications are accepted online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.