Transportation Assistant

Veterans Health Administration; Anchorage (AK); On-site; USD 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

The Veterans Health Administration is seeking a Transportation Assistant to support the Veteran Transportation Services program. You will assist with transportation workload forecasting, scheduling design, and procedure development, contributing to ongoing quality improvement and operational efficiency.

Working with the VTS Supervisory Mobility Manager, you will document travel information, track data daily, and help generate reports while coordinating connections and ensuring reliable service

Qualifications

• Time-In-Grade requirements for current federal employees.
• One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-5.
• Examples of specialized experience include coordinating connections/scheduling, documenting travel information, data tracking, generating reports, entering data into databases, and directing a program that provides support services.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate transportation workload forecasting and scheduling.
• Develop procedures and improve quality of the transportation program.
• Evaluate and optimize operational flow of Veteran Transportation Services.
• Collect and analyze travel data and generate routine reports.

Skills

Customer service

Computer skills

Multitasking

Job description

Job Summary

The Transportation Assistant works with the VTS Supervisory Mobility Manager for transportation workload forecasting, scheduling design, procedure development, and quality improvement implementation, modification of processes, evaluation and ongoing operational flow of the Veteran Transportation Services program. The coordination of transportation function is multi-faceted and diverse.

Qualification Requirements

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/14/2026. 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-6 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-5. 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-5 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Performing transportation support duties such as coordinating connections/scheduling, documenting travel information; collecting, compiling, and tracking data on a daily basis; Performs a basic analysis of data and generates a variety of reports; entering data into automated tracking data bases; and planning and directing a program that provides support services. NOTE: Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must clearly indicate the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Preferred Experience: Customer service, computer skills, multitasking 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/.