Time & Leave Clerk
What you'd do
The Charles George VAMC is recruiting for one (1) Time and Leave Clerk. The position is located in Nursing Service at the Western North Carolina VA Health Care System -Charles George VA Medical Center, Asheville, NC (CGVAMC). The purpose of this position is to process and maintain attendance and leave records for the Nursing Service.
Major duties
The purpose of the Time and Leave Clerk is to process and maintain attendance and leave records for Nursing Service. The position is also required to train and educate new employees and staff on attendance and leave systems/software. Duties Major duties include, but are not limited to: Time, Attendance & Records Management: Prepares Time and Attendance Reports for all Title 38, Hybrid Title 38 and Title 5 employees for Nursing Services. Verifies Tours of Duty. Verifies Pay entitlements to include regular pay, overtime, compensatory time, scheduled and unscheduled hours at regular and at overtime rates, multiple compressed schedules, night differentials, Saturday and Sunday Premium Pays, Holiday Pay, etc. Leave computations and charges. Responsible for correct posting, recording and coding of employees who are injured on duty and relieved due to the nature of the injury. Mush be familiar with OWCP regulations to comply and apply posting requirements to the timecard. Posts and records appropriate information indicating "COP" benefits and leave charges. Coordinates with the OWCP Clerk and Safety Officer to assure accuracy of records and claims. Trains and educates leave approving officials, timekeeper staff and new employees in one-on-one sessions regarding employee electronic time cards. Clerical and Administrative Work: Performs general clerical and administrative work, which encompasses a variety of different duties and responsibilities such as typing, office automation at or above the established minimum proficiency level and use of Microsoft Office Programs to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Utilizes Microsoft Outlook and Teams for communication with managers and other Microsoft programs to track and trend data. Expert knowledge of Acustaf Scheduling Software utilizing that software to confirm precise hours worked and generates timecards in the VA Time and Attendance System (VATAS)responding and correcting any error messages generated in VATAS to create an accurate timecards for pay. Adheres to VA policies regarding all record keeping related to time and leave. Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, Variable Day Tours Telework: AD-Hoc. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Time & Leave Clerk/PD044650 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/13/2026. 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-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. 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 as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Possessing experience as a Civilian Payroll Technician; possessing knowledge of a body of payroll, time and attendance, tax, and retirement; utilizing a variety of interrelated steps, conditions, and procedures or processes to assemble, review, and maintain a variety of complex pay transactions; processing various payroll related reports; resolving time, leave and benefit issues; utilizing automated pay systems to reconcile errors, and provide accurate information and assistance; and operating a personal computer with a variety of software programs. Performs general clerical and administrative work, which encompasses a variety of different duties and responsibilities such as typing, office automation at or above the established minimum proficiency level and use of Microsoft Office Programs to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Utilizes Microsoft Outlook and Teams for communication with managers and other Microsoft programs to track and trend data. 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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