Supervisory Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor.
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real content. The posting includes duties (responsibilities), qualifications, maybe schedule (Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm; Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: ...). Also maybe benefits? Not mentioned. Pay? Not mentioned. So we include Responsibilities, Qualifications, Schedule (maybe also Requirements? The posting includes "Requirements Conditions of employment" etc. That could be Requirements. Also "Additional Conditions Of Employment". So we can have Requirements section covering conditions of employment, probation, citizenship, etc. Also "Qualifications" section covering education, experience, specialized experience, transcripts, etc. Also "Skills"? Not explicit. Could omit.
We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. There's none.
We need to list duties as - . Use
for prose.
We need to include schedule details: Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm; Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only. The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday. Telework may be approved only on a case-by-case basis with supervisory approval. Routine or recurring telework is not authorized for this position. Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
We can put that under Schedule heading.
Responsibilities: list duties.
Requirements: conditions of employment: probationary period, US Citizen, Selective Service Registration for males born after 12/31/1959, background/security investigation, online onboarding, identification requirements, REAL ID compliance after May 7 2025, etc. Also maybe "Additional Conditions Of Employment Are As Follows". Also "You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job". Also "Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959". Also "You may be required to serve a probationary or trial period". Also "Selectees are required to serve a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position." Also "Subject to background/security investigation". Also "Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements 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."
Also maybe "Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized". That's a detail; could be under Requirements or maybe Benefits? It's not a benefit. Could be under Requirements as a note. But we can include it.
Qualifications: include time-in-grade requirement, minimum qualification requirement (basic requirements, specialized experience), education transcripts, etc.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive info. So we need to include all those points.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not create Pay/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. No pay/benefits given.
Thus output:
Responsibilities
... each duty as - . Need to capture all duties sentences.
Let's extract duties from the text:
"Directs the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VRE)Program, which performs technical, administrative, and professional work."
"Serves as the Regional Office's professional and technical expert in conducting, administering, and advising in the areas of education, training, testing, evaluation, counseling, rehabilitation, psychology, job development, job placement, and entitlement."
"Provides administrative and technical direction and professional leadership to a professional and technical staff of Counseling Psychologists, Rehabilitation Counselors, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialists, Employment/Program Specialists, and support staff as well as providing oversight of contractors."
"Oversees a team of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors (VRCs) and other staff in the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Regional Office (RO), RO Out-based office locations, VetSuccess On Campus (VSOC) school sites, or Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) locations on military installations."
"Develops short- and Long-term plans to assure work is accomplished in a timely manner, is of acceptable quality, and accomplishes the changing initiatives and emphasis established by VA Central Office managers, as well as local management policy changes and procedural modifications."
"Ensures that his/her staff provides expert and high-quality services to the Veterans with a service-connected disability such as vocational counseling and consultation; counseling interventions; and superb case management."
"Responsible for managing allocated budgetary resources and for authorizing and supervising the expenditure of funds such as staff travel, beneficiary travel, tools, supplies, equipment, revolving fund loans, tutoring or reader services, individual instructor fees, tuition, and subsistence allowances."
"Provides counseling, training, and employment services to all eligible beneficiaries within the State of Arkansas through two full-time offices. Activities and services provided by the VR&E Program directly .and significantly impact a wide range of agency activities. The VR&E Program deals with the direct payment of benefits to veterans and dependents as well as providing payment for educational programs which can typically cost many thousands of dollars."
"Meets with senior managers at the Regional Office, State or Labor representatives, focal VA Medical Centers, Outpatient Clinics, and other facilities. Incumbent must frequently contact high-ranking civilian managers, supervisors, and technical staff regarding contracting of services. Other professional contacts are with physicians, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, program and administration officials with VA and other local, state, and federal agencies. Given the interrelated nature of the various contracted services, state and federal Vocational Rehabilitation programs, the level of these contacts has a decided impact on the successful performance of the work."
"Develops short- and Jong-term plans to assure work is accomplished in a timely manner, is of acceptable quality, and accomplishes the changing initiatives and emphasis established by VA Central Office managers, as well as local management policy changes and procedural modifications." (duplicate of earlier but we keep)
"Takes a variety of personnel-related actions such as hearing/resolving grievances or complaints, proposes disciplinary and adverse actions, evaluates performance of rehabilitation professionals; decides on nonroutine training needs, approves expenses relative to employee travel and overtime; recommends within-grade increases, awards, bonuses; and recommends changes in position classification."
We have duplicate short- and long-term plans sentence appears twice; we can keep one but must preserve all substantive info; duplicate is still substantive but we could deduplicate? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplicate is still substantive info; but we could keep both? Might be redundant but still info. Safer to keep both as separate list items? Might be weird but okay. However we could combine? The instruction says do not summarize away detail; combining could be considered summarizing. Safer to keep both as separate items.
Now Requirements: list conditions.
From text:
"As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or trial 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; andwhether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period trial, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest."
"Additional Conditions Of Employment Are As Follows You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this jobSelective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959You may be required to serve a probationary or trial periodSelectees are required to serve a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.Subject to background/security investigationSelected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements 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."
Also "Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized" maybe under Requirements.
Also "Financial Disclosure Report: Required. This position requires completion of a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-450) under 5 C.F.R. 2634.904(a). The selectee must submit the form before entering on duty and annually thereafter."
Also "Bargaining Unit: No"
Also "Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor; PD38428A" (metadata, maybe drop as per instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. This is minor metadata; we could drop or put in a short p. Probably drop.
We'll include Requirements as bullet list.
Qualifications: include:
"TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: As a current Federal, GS employee you must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement:08/31/2026. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level.If you are a current VBA employee requesting reassignment or change to lower grade via this vacancy announcement, you must currently hold the GS-14 or higher and the promotion potential of your current position must be at least GS-14. 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."
"MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: To qualify for this position, you must meet both the Basic Requirements (Individual Occupational Requirements) and the specialized experience requirements described below: Individual Occupational Requirements (Basic Requirements): To be eligible for this position, you must meet one of the following: Degree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in behavioral or social science, or a related discipline appropriate to the position. OR; Combination of education and experience: A combination of education and experience that provided you with the knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. OR; Experience: Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrates you have acquired knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. Note: You must submit transcripts if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience."
"Specialized Experience GS-14: In addition to meeting the basic requirements above, you must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as experience in Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment programs: 1) expertise with employment and vocational rehabilitation programs; 2) possessing knowledge and expertise in the procedures for vocational and rehabilitation law; 3) the expertise to administer and counsel in the areas of counseling, rehabilitation, psychology, career development, and job placement entitlements; 4) the expertise to control budgetary resources for approving and monitoring financial expenditures."
"Combining Education & Experience: If you do not fully meet the length of experience and education described for a specific grade level (
for prose. We need to include schedule details: Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm; Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only. The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday. Telework may be approved only on a case-by-case basis with supervisory approval. Routine or recurring telework is not authorized for this position. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. We can put that under Schedule heading. Responsibilities: list duties. Requirements: conditions of employment: probationary period, US Citizen, Selective Service Registration for males born after 12/31/1959, background/security investigation, online onboarding, identification requirements, REAL ID compliance after May 7 2025, etc. Also maybe "Additional Conditions Of Employment Are As Follows". Also "You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job". Also "Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959". Also "You may be required to serve a probationary or trial period". Also "Selectees are required to serve a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position." Also "Subject to background/security investigation". Also "Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements 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." Also maybe "Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized". That's a detail; could be under Requirements or maybe Benefits? It's not a benefit. Could be under Requirements as a note. But we can include it. Qualifications: include time-in-grade requirement, minimum qualification requirement (basic requirements, specialized experience), education transcripts, etc. We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive info. So we need to include all those points. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not create Pay/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. No pay/benefits given. Thus output:
Responsibilities
- ... each duty as
- . Need to capture all duties sentences.
Let's extract duties from the text:
"Directs the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VRE)Program, which performs technical, administrative, and professional work."
"Serves as the Regional Office's professional and technical expert in conducting, administering, and advising in the areas of education, training, testing, evaluation, counseling, rehabilitation, psychology, job development, job placement, and entitlement."
"Provides administrative and technical direction and professional leadership to a professional and technical staff of Counseling Psychologists, Rehabilitation Counselors, Vocational Rehabilitation Specialists, Employment/Program Specialists, and support staff as well as providing oversight of contractors."
"Oversees a team of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors (VRCs) and other staff in the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Regional Office (RO), RO Out-based office locations, VetSuccess On Campus (VSOC) school sites, or Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) locations on military installations."
"Develops short- and Long-term plans to assure work is accomplished in a timely manner, is of acceptable quality, and accomplishes the changing initiatives and emphasis established by VA Central Office managers, as well as local management policy changes and procedural modifications."
"Ensures that his/her staff provides expert and high-quality services to the Veterans with a service-connected disability such as vocational counseling and consultation; counseling interventions; and superb case management."
"Responsible for managing allocated budgetary resources and for authorizing and supervising the expenditure of funds such as staff travel, beneficiary travel, tools, supplies, equipment, revolving fund loans, tutoring or reader services, individual instructor fees, tuition, and subsistence allowances."
"Provides counseling, training, and employment services to all eligible beneficiaries within the State of Arkansas through two full-time offices. Activities and services provided by the VR&E Program directly .and significantly impact a wide range of agency activities. The VR&E Program deals with the direct payment of benefits to veterans and dependents as well as providing payment for educational programs which can typically cost many thousands of dollars."
"Meets with senior managers at the Regional Office, State or Labor representatives, focal VA Medical Centers, Outpatient Clinics, and other facilities. Incumbent must frequently contact high-ranking civilian managers, supervisors, and technical staff regarding contracting of services. Other professional contacts are with physicians, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, program and administration officials with VA and other local, state, and federal agencies. Given the interrelated nature of the various contracted services, state and federal Vocational Rehabilitation programs, the level of these contacts has a decided impact on the successful performance of the work."
"Develops short- and Jong-term plans to assure work is accomplished in a timely manner, is of acceptable quality, and accomplishes the changing initiatives and emphasis established by VA Central Office managers, as well as local management policy changes and procedural modifications." (duplicate of earlier but we keep)
"Takes a variety of personnel-related actions such as hearing/resolving grievances or complaints, proposes disciplinary and adverse actions, evaluates performance of rehabilitation professionals; decides on nonroutine training needs, approves expenses relative to employee travel and overtime; recommends within-grade increases, awards, bonuses; and recommends changes in position classification."
We have duplicate short- and long-term plans sentence appears twice; we can keep one but must preserve all substantive info; duplicate is still substantive but we could deduplicate? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplicate is still substantive info; but we could keep both? Might be redundant but still info. Safer to keep both as separate list items? Might be weird but okay. However we could combine? The instruction says do not summarize away detail; combining could be considered summarizing. Safer to keep both as separate items.
Now Requirements: list conditions.
From text:
"As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or trial 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; andwhether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period trial, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest."
"Additional Conditions Of Employment Are As Follows You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this jobSelective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959You may be required to serve a probationary or trial periodSelectees are required to serve a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.Subject to background/security investigationSelected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements 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."
Also "Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized" maybe under Requirements.
Also "Financial Disclosure Report: Required. This position requires completion of a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-450) under 5 C.F.R. 2634.904(a). The selectee must submit the form before entering on duty and annually thereafter."
Also "Bargaining Unit: No"
Also "Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor; PD38428A" (metadata, maybe drop as per instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. This is minor metadata; we could drop or put in a short p. Probably drop. We'll include Requirements as bullet list. Qualifications: include: "TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: As a current Federal, GS employee you must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement:08/31/2026. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level.If you are a current VBA employee requesting reassignment or change to lower grade via this vacancy announcement, you must currently hold the GS-14 or higher and the promotion potential of your current position must be at least GS-14. 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." "MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: To qualify for this position, you must meet both the Basic Requirements (Individual Occupational Requirements) and the specialized experience requirements described below: Individual Occupational Requirements (Basic Requirements): To be eligible for this position, you must meet one of the following: Degree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in behavioral or social science, or a related discipline appropriate to the position. OR; Combination of education and experience: A combination of education and experience that provided you with the knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. OR; Experience: Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrates you have acquired knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. Note: You must submit transcripts if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience." "Specialized Experience GS-14: In addition to meeting the basic requirements above, you must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as experience in Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment programs: 1) expertise with employment and vocational rehabilitation programs; 2) possessing knowledge and expertise in the procedures for vocational and rehabilitation law; 3) the expertise to administer and counsel in the areas of counseling, rehabilitation, psychology, career development, and job placement entitlements; 4) the expertise to control budgetary resources for approving and monitoring financial expenditures." "Combining Education & Experience: If you do not fully meet the length of experience and education described for a specific grade level (