Health System Administrator (Assistant Medical Center Director)

This position serves as the Assistant Medical Center Director for Outpatient & Community-Based Operations located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 (VISN 7), Ralph H. Johnson VA Healthcare System. The Assistant Director exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections and is directly responsible for facility operations.Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/08/2024.
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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. 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.
Individual Occupational Requirement: The 0670 series require specific education or experience to be met in order to be appointed into a position of this series. You must meet the pre-determined Education or Experience Individual Occupational Requirement below as set by Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

1. Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. OR,
2. 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

Applicants must also possess:

• Management ability to delegate authority, evaluate and oversee people and programs, recognize and adapt to changing priorities; and
• Knowledge of the interrelationships and interdependencies among various medical and administrative services and programs.

3. 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.
• Oversight by an experienced Health System Administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program.
• 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.

In addition to the above Individual Occupational Requirement, you must also possess specialized experience as described below:

• Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: analyzing demands for resources, assisting in establishing organizational structure and guidelines, giving insight on significant policy decisions, performing personnel management functions to include selection, termination, and evaluation, and formulating budgets.
  • Qualifying specialized experience is defined as 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:
    • (1) Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems;
    • (2) Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and
    • (3) Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement.
  • Applicants must also possess: (1) Management ability to delegate authority, evaluate and oversee people and programs, recognize, and adapt to changing priorities; and (2) Knowledge of the interrelationships and interdependencies among various medical and administrative services and programs. At this level, applicants would provide executive leadership with insight in establish organizational structures that are efficient, cost effective, support desired grade levels, and facilitate career development; work on the development of a balanced financial plan designed to meet realistic needs of the facility and the network; establish and maintain public relations with a variety of institutions and groups; apply performance standards to measure program performance and health care activities are meeting established goals and objectives; and plan and execute major projects concerned with the analysis and evaluation of programs and operational effectiveness.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Administration and Management
• Organizational Stewardship
• Systems Thinking

Preferred Experience: Experience with outpatient operations including ambulatory care delivery, care in the community, and referral coordination. Proficient understanding of productivity and efficiency and management of supply and demand and strategizing future healthcare needs based on demand and projected growth. Experience with healthcare business management functions, including access to care and compliance with related policies and regulation.
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.
Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
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/.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. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.Employment Type: FULL_TIME