Security Assistant

US-Department-of-Veterans-Affair; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VHA) Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, ME, seeks a Security Assistant for Police Service to monitor physical security equipment and systems and to direct incoming calls to hospital staff.

This is a full-time position with 40 hours per week, with the closing date of 08/20/2026. Applicants must meet time-in-grade requirements or have equivalent education/experience as described in the posted qualifications.

Qualifications

• Specialized Experience: One year at GS-4 level with data entry, reporting, and database management.
• Education: Four years of education beyond high school from an accredited school.
• Combination: Education plus experience may be used to meet requirements.

Skills

Data entry

Report generation

Database maintenance

Confidentiality

Interpersonal skills

Verbal communication

Education

4+ years of education beyond high school

Tools

Automation systems

Computer systems

Job description

This position serves as the Security Assistant for Police Service at the Togus VA Medical Center within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) with a primary purpose to monitor physical security equipment and systems and direct incoming telephone calls to the appropriate hospital staff. This is a full-time position with 40 hours per week. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/20/2026.

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-05 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-04. 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: One (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-4 level in the Federal service that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of a Security Assistant, and that is typically in or related to the work of this position. Specialized experience includes: the use of various computer, automation systems; computer skills in terms of data entry, compiling information, preparing and submitting reports, and database maintenance and management; maintaining confidentiality of information, both electronic and print; and communication and interpersonal relation skills sufficient to appropriately and courteously relate to internal and external customers both verbally and in writing. NOTE: Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. OR,
• Education: Have successfully completed (4) years of education above the high school level. This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite. One year of full-time undergraduate 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 NOTE: Transcripts must be submitted with application. Education cannot be credited without documentation.. OR,
• Combination: Possess equivalent combinations of successfully completed post high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e. beyond the second year) is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. NOTE: If using education combined with specialized experience to qualify, a copy of your transcript is required.

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/