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Dietitian (Clinical) – PACT – Recruitment/Relocation Incentive
Veterans Health Administration · Corpus Christi, Texas · Closes in 104 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: Federal employees - Excepted service, Internal to an agency, The public, Federal employees - Competitive service.

You must be a U.S. citizen to apply, unless VA cannot find qualified citizens for the job. The announcement is open to the public and to current permanent federal employees.

Experience: GS is the federal pay grade. GS-07 needs no experience beyond the basic requirements. GS-09 needs at least 1 year of experience at the grade below (GS-07). GS-11 needs at least 1 year of experience as a registered dietitian at the GS-09 level.

Education: A master's degree from a regionally accredited college or university can qualify you for GS-09 instead of experience. Non-credentialed dietitians may be hired only at GS-07 or GS-09 with a bachelor's or higher degree from a U.S. regionally accredited school and an ACEND accredited supervised practice program, plus a verification statement from the program director.

Licenses and certifications:

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) or Registered Dietitian (RD) credential from the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)

Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.

2 Resume and documents

Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Long-form resume or CV showing job titles, grades, duties, MM/YYYY dates, full-time or part-time status, and hours per week Transcript if you use education to qualify Certificate of Foreign Equivalency if you use foreign education ACEND program director verification statement if using the non-credentialed option DD-214 if you claim veterans' preference SF-15 if you claim 10-point veterans' preference SF-50 if you are a current or former federal employee

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 104 days (February 12, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

The first cut-off date is Thursday, October 1, 2026, and applications expire after 90 days, so you must update your application in USAJOBS to be reconsidered.

You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.

How they rate you: You will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based on your questionnaire and documents. Your answers and documents will be verified, and missing or unclear information may lower your rating or make you ineligible.

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4 After you apply

In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.

For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.

If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

Write dates as MM/YYYY and state whether each job was full-time or part-time and hours per week, or you may not get full credit.
If you use education to qualify, include transcripts and explain any school name changes or closed ACEND programs.
Claim veterans' preference in the questionnaire and send your DD-214 with it, or the preference may not be awarded.

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