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Form of workThe Associate Director for Clinical Business Operations is located within the Department of Veteran Affairs at the Hampton VA Medical Center, within the Office of the Medical Center Director. This incumbent exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections.Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/16/2024.
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-15 position you must have served 52 weeks at the 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. 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.
You may qualify based on your experience as described below:
- Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): To meet the basic qualification of the 0670 Health System Administration Occupational Series, you must possess an undergraduate or graduate level degree with a Major study in hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration -OR- you must possess 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.
In addition to meeting the Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR), you must also meet the specialized experience requirement. You may qualify based on your experience as described below:
- GS-15 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-14 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include but are not limited to: Experience with the strategic planning process; ability to research, decide and determine the best approach when resolving complex problems or issues; ability to extract and record data from various automated systems; experience in the development and implementation of both long and short term policies and plans for the health care delivery system by coordinating input from administrative and clinical services; experience working in a health care setting and dealing with patient access metrics and action plans; experience working with program officials and Chiefs of Staff related to access to care in the health care delivery system; experience working with VA Community Care; skill in developing, evaluating and adjusting organizational structures and management systems for the administrative and allied health services; experience with all available resources (personnel, space, equipment, and money) and establishing priorities for distributing these resources based on program needs.
You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
- Administration and Management
- Decision Making
- Financial Management
- Human Capital Management
- Organizational Awareness
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.
Physical Requirements: Work is sedentary. There are no special physical demands.
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: There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
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
