Veterans Benefit Administration Personal Statement

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Serving in positions of ever increasing responsibility within the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and graduating with an advanced degree from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC), has provided me with knowledge and skills and abilities related to the topics of advanced management and organizational principles, practices, planning, and budgetary processes.

Attending the CGSC Staff Officer Course afforded me the opportunity to learn from some of the top leaders in the U.S. and foreign militaries, Federal government, and private industry. During this period, I studied, and successfully completed coursework in a wide variety of topics related to advanced management principles and practices to include; advanced leadership …show more content…

Following completion of my studies, I was reassigned from my position as an Assistant Service Center Manager, in field operations, to the Office of Strategic Planning (OSP) in the VBA Central Office. During my tenure in OSP, I served as a Senior Program Analyst, first on the Transformational Initiatives and Future Concepts team, and then as a Senior Program Analyst on the Strategic Planning team. My job duties included producing operational and strategic planning deliverables such a long range and strategic plans in order to improve mission effectiveness and business practices within the organization. In addition, while serving on the strategic planning team, I was selected to represent VBA as a Strategic Planner during VA’s Quadrennial Strategic Planning Process and was an active participant in the development of the future VA Strategic Plan. This afforded me the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in the strategic planning process at the department level and to gain a greater understanding of how the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and VBA’s long rand and strategic plans, nest within VA’s strategic

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