Health System Specialist
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The Health System Specialist (HSS) serves as a Staff Assistant to the Director. The HSS provides direct support to the top management team - responsible for the administrative and strategic planning, organization, operation, and evaluation of the medical center. The HSS is delegated responsibility for the study, analysis, evaluation, and formulation of recommendations for the improvement of the administrative management and operating programs of the Hampton VA Medical Center (VAMC).
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Work Schedule: Full Time, Monday- Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Position Description Title/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD021870
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Conditions of Employment
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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.
Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): The 0671 series requires specific education or experience to be met in order to be appointed into a position of this series. You must meet one of the pre-determined Education or Experience Individual Occupational Requirements listed below as set by Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study of hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration.
OR
Specialized Experience: Progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field. This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities. Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and/or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following:
Special Provision for Inservice Placement: Successful completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program may be substituted for qualifying experience, provided it included a formal individualized training plan. Such a training program must have been conducted in an operating health care system and included:
Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Understanding of aspects to the Medical Center operations and the Department of Veterans Affairs system as a whole; Analyzes data and all correspondence regarding clinical, administrative, and facility specific performance measures to develop plans and actions to address current and future initiatives; Analyzes interrelated issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and projectivity of substantive mission-oriented programs; Knowledgeable of concepts, principles and practices of healthcare delivery; Use of qualitative and quantitative methods for assessment and improvement of program effectiveness; Ability to plan, organize, and direct team study work; Knowledge of administrative laws, policies, regulations, and precedents applicable to clinical operations; Skill in conducting detailed analyses of complex functions and work process; Ability to use management tools and techniques (flow charts, decision trees, forecasting techniques, needs assessments, process improvement, and feasibility studies); Ability to use various analytical techniques to include simulation, modeling, and time studies; Knowledge of strategic planning methodologies and possess abilities in coordinating and providing effective planning direction to the organization; and Effectively express information to multiple audiences through clear, convincing oral and written communications.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
Additional information
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process, visit Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance Act.
A supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website which can be found at https://www.opm.gov/.
Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
The Health System Specialist (HSS) serves as a Staff Assistant to the Director. The HSS provides direct support to the top management team - responsible for the administrative and strategic planning, organization, operation, and evaluation of the medical center. The HSS is delegated responsibility for the study, analysis, evaluation, and formulation of recommendations for the improvement of the administrative management and operating programs of the Hampton VA Medical Center (VAMC).
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Duties
- Conducts management studies of organizational entities with critical problems.
- Integrates cyclical management studies, and conducts studies in connection with systematic internal reviews and management briefings in order to formulate recommendations that result in greater efficiency and economy of operations.
- Analyze problems of workload, work distribution, workflow, work controls, overtime usage, essentiality of work, and staffing requirements.
- Performs in-depth studies to assess current needs or to project future needs.
- Conducts logistical type studies which are directed at determining the most effective utilization of space, supplies, transportation, storage facilities, etc.
- Identify practical solutions which may be achieved through short or long-range planning.
- Assists in the development of information submitted from this medical center to the VISN or VA Headquarters, which includes statistical and demographic information for various medical center health-care programs, as well as any special reports required by the VISN Director.
- Reviews proposed organizational changes involving the establishment, consolidation, transfer, or regrouping of functions of one or more services or sub-service units; analyzes and evaluates organizational staffing and functional structures from the standpoint of enhancing the accomplishment of objectives; and develops alternate proposals, policies, and procedures, as determined necessary, in order to make recommendations for achieving maximum use of the medical center's resources.
- Serves as chairman, coordinator, or member of management working committees set up to resolve the full range of management problems; assists in the development of proposed management programs on a service, inter-service, medical center or VISN-wide basis; determines types of administrative services to be provided; prepares training materials for various phases of administrative management; and formulates recommendations for major revisions in the medical center's management policies and procedures.
- Develops management improvement programs or revised policy and procedural requirements for more effective application of various administrative management systems, such as: incentive awards, performance evaluation, management reports, automation, communication analyses, etc.
- Formulates recommendations to include specific plans to correct deficiencies or to increase positive accomplishments of administrative practices, for example: the development of criteria to determine measurable work areas and establishment of quantitative or qualitative production standards.
Work Schedule: Full Time, Monday- Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Position Description Title/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD021870
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Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
- Subject to a background/suitability investigation
- May serve a probationary period
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
- A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- Effective May 7, 2025, driver’s licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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.
Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): The 0671 series requires specific education or experience to be met in order to be appointed into a position of this series. You must meet one of the pre-determined Education or Experience Individual Occupational Requirements listed below as set by Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study of hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration.
OR
Specialized Experience: Progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field. This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities. Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and/or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following:
- Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems;
- Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and
- Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement.
Special Provision for Inservice Placement: Successful completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program may be substituted for qualifying experience, provided it included a formal individualized training plan. Such a training program must have been conducted in an operating health care system and included:
- Assignments providing a knowledge of basic health system administration philosophies, practices, and procedures, and basic government administrative policies and requirements;
- Practical assignments providing an opportunity to apply health system administration skills and principles (as the individual progresses, work assignments must be characteristic of the grade level to which he or she is assigned); and
- Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program.
Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Understanding of aspects to the Medical Center operations and the Department of Veterans Affairs system as a whole; Analyzes data and all correspondence regarding clinical, administrative, and facility specific performance measures to develop plans and actions to address current and future initiatives; Analyzes interrelated issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and projectivity of substantive mission-oriented programs; Knowledgeable of concepts, principles and practices of healthcare delivery; Use of qualitative and quantitative methods for assessment and improvement of program effectiveness; Ability to plan, organize, and direct team study work; Knowledge of administrative laws, policies, regulations, and precedents applicable to clinical operations; Skill in conducting detailed analyses of complex functions and work process; Ability to use management tools and techniques (flow charts, decision trees, forecasting techniques, needs assessments, process improvement, and feasibility studies); Ability to use various analytical techniques to include simulation, modeling, and time studies; Knowledge of strategic planning methodologies and possess abilities in coordinating and providing effective planning direction to the organization; and Effectively express information to multiple audiences through clear, convincing oral and written communications.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
Additional information
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process, visit Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance Act.
A supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website which can be found at https://www.opm.gov/.
Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.
Read more
- Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Summary
The Health System Specialist (HSS) serves as a Staff Assistant to the Director. The HSS provides direct support to the top management team - responsible for the administrative and strategic planning, organization, operation, and evaluation of the medical center. The HSS is delegated responsibility for the study, analysis, evaluation, and formulation of recommendations for the improvement of the administrative management and operating programs of the Hampton VA Medical Center (VAMC).
Help
Duties
Work Schedule: Full Time, Monday- Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Position Description Title/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD021870
Help
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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.
Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): The 0671 series requires specific education or experience to be met in order to be appointed into a position of this series. You must meet one of the pre-determined Education or Experience Individual Occupational Requirements listed below as set by Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study of hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration.
OR
Specialized Experience: Progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field. This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities. Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and/or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following:
Special Provision for Inservice Placement: Successful completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program may be substituted for qualifying experience, provided it included a formal individualized training plan. Such a training program must have been conducted in an operating health care system and included:
Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Understanding of aspects to the Medical Center operations and the Department of Veterans Affairs system as a whole; Analyzes data and all correspondence regarding clinical, administrative, and facility specific performance measures to develop plans and actions to address current and future initiatives; Analyzes interrelated issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and projectivity of substantive mission-oriented programs; Knowledgeable of concepts, principles and practices of healthcare delivery; Use of qualitative and quantitative methods for assessment and improvement of program effectiveness; Ability to plan, organize, and direct team study work; Knowledge of administrative laws, policies, regulations, and precedents applicable to clinical operations; Skill in conducting detailed analyses of complex functions and work process; Ability to use management tools and techniques (flow charts, decision trees, forecasting techniques, needs assessments, process improvement, and feasibility studies); Ability to use various analytical techniques to include simulation, modeling, and time studies; Knowledge of strategic planning methodologies and possess abilities in coordinating and providing effective planning direction to the organization; and Effectively express information to multiple audiences through clear, convincing oral and written communications.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
Additional information
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process, visit Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance Act.
A supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website which can be found at https://www.opm.gov/.
Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.
Read more
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
The Health System Specialist (HSS) serves as a Staff Assistant to the Director. The HSS provides direct support to the top management team - responsible for the administrative and strategic planning, organization, operation, and evaluation of the medical center. The HSS is delegated responsibility for the study, analysis, evaluation, and formulation of recommendations for the improvement of the administrative management and operating programs of the Hampton VA Medical Center (VAMC).
Help
Duties
- Conducts management studies of organizational entities with critical problems.
- Integrates cyclical management studies, and conducts studies in connection with systematic internal reviews and management briefings in order to formulate recommendations that result in greater efficiency and economy of operations.
- Analyze problems of workload, work distribution, workflow, work controls, overtime usage, essentiality of work, and staffing requirements.
- Performs in-depth studies to assess current needs or to project future needs.
- Conducts logistical type studies which are directed at determining the most effective utilization of space, supplies, transportation, storage facilities, etc.
- Identify practical solutions which may be achieved through short or long-range planning.
- Assists in the development of information submitted from this medical center to the VISN or VA Headquarters, which includes statistical and demographic information for various medical center health-care programs, as well as any special reports required by the VISN Director.
- Reviews proposed organizational changes involving the establishment, consolidation, transfer, or regrouping of functions of one or more services or sub-service units; analyzes and evaluates organizational staffing and functional structures from the standpoint of enhancing the accomplishment of objectives; and develops alternate proposals, policies, and procedures, as determined necessary, in order to make recommendations for achieving maximum use of the medical center's resources.
- Serves as chairman, coordinator, or member of management working committees set up to resolve the full range of management problems; assists in the development of proposed management programs on a service, inter-service, medical center or VISN-wide basis; determines types of administrative services to be provided; prepares training materials for various phases of administrative management; and formulates recommendations for major revisions in the medical center's management policies and procedures.
- Develops management improvement programs or revised policy and procedural requirements for more effective application of various administrative management systems, such as: incentive awards, performance evaluation, management reports, automation, communication analyses, etc.
- Formulates recommendations to include specific plans to correct deficiencies or to increase positive accomplishments of administrative practices, for example: the development of criteria to determine measurable work areas and establishment of quantitative or qualitative production standards.
Work Schedule: Full Time, Monday- Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Position Description Title/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD021870
Help
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
- Subject to a background/suitability investigation
- May serve a probationary period
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
- A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- Effective May 7, 2025, driver’s licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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.
Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): The 0671 series requires specific education or experience to be met in order to be appointed into a position of this series. You must meet one of the pre-determined Education or Experience Individual Occupational Requirements listed below as set by Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study of hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration.
OR
Specialized Experience: Progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field. This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities. Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and/or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following:
- Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems;
- Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and
- Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement.
Special Provision for Inservice Placement: Successful completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program may be substituted for qualifying experience, provided it included a formal individualized training plan. Such a training program must have been conducted in an operating health care system and included:
- Assignments providing a knowledge of basic health system administration philosophies, practices, and procedures, and basic government administrative policies and requirements;
- Practical assignments providing an opportunity to apply health system administration skills and principles (as the individual progresses, work assignments must be characteristic of the grade level to which he or she is assigned); and
- Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program.
Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Understanding of aspects to the Medical Center operations and the Department of Veterans Affairs system as a whole; Analyzes data and all correspondence regarding clinical, administrative, and facility specific performance measures to develop plans and actions to address current and future initiatives; Analyzes interrelated issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and projectivity of substantive mission-oriented programs; Knowledgeable of concepts, principles and practices of healthcare delivery; Use of qualitative and quantitative methods for assessment and improvement of program effectiveness; Ability to plan, organize, and direct team study work; Knowledge of administrative laws, policies, regulations, and precedents applicable to clinical operations; Skill in conducting detailed analyses of complex functions and work process; Ability to use management tools and techniques (flow charts, decision trees, forecasting techniques, needs assessments, process improvement, and feasibility studies); Ability to use various analytical techniques to include simulation, modeling, and time studies; Knowledge of strategic planning methodologies and possess abilities in coordinating and providing effective planning direction to the organization; and Effectively express information to multiple audiences through clear, convincing oral and written communications.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
Additional information
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process, visit Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance Act.
A supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website which can be found at https://www.opm.gov/.
Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.
Read more
- Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.