Administrative Officer (Anesthesia)
What you'd do
The Birmingham VA Medical Center is currently recruiting for an Administrative Officer to work in Anesthesia Service.
Major duties
Duties include, but are limited to: Train residents, fellows and medical students on the INNOVIAN Anesthesia Electronic Record Keeping System and help them obtain all necessary security clearances. Plan and implement management directives. Initiate the resolution of problems relating to resident orientation through coordination with the UAB residency office and analyze and formulate plans to trouble shoot recurring problems relating to residency education. Coordinate the application process for adding extra VA anesthesiology residency positions as need arises through coordination between UAB graduate medical education and BVAMC education service. Provide current and accurate workload analysis and percentage effort for all anesthesia providers including the formulation of new and update of expiring Medical Center Memorandums (MCM) relating to anesthesia. Conduct studies of manpower, space, equipment, other resource utilization and coordinates with other disciplines within the institution or outside the institution. Keep equipment inventory current, will evaluate new technology and help with competitive bidding process to procure new equipment relating to anesthesia service. Collect, interpret and implement plans in coordination with systems redesign officer to improve and maintain operating room efficiency and throughout. Help coordination with various VA and fee basis physicians to coordinate the schedule for 24/7 in house coverage for airway management and emergency procedures after hours. Will assist in the recruiting and credentialing process of various VA and fee basis anesthesia providers and complete special projects and tasks assigned by the Chief of Anesthesiology Service.Monitor moderate sedation throughout the facility and adverse events relating to anesthesia for quality assurance and compliance purposes. Serve as the approving official for computer access AAR, pay certification and over time, and part time physician ESRs and remedy requests entered by the service secretary. Serve on several medical center committees as appointed by the anesthesia service chief including but not limited to: the operating room committee, the operative and invasive procedure committee and the operating room efficiency committee, and act in various capacities including member, ex-officio or as representative of the anesthesia service chief. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7am- 3:30pm. Work schedule subject to change based on agency needs. Telework: This position may be authorized for telework as determined by the agency policy. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Administrative Officer (Anesthesia)/PD089640Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not AuthorizedCritical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/10/2026.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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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 and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to one year of performing administrative duties to include HR personnel transactions, SPEG EER requests and contracting duties, resident onboarding experience. Critical thinking skills. Self motivate. Highly organized. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related. OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. For example: For GS-11, An applicant has 9 months of specialized experience equivalent to GS-9 and 2 1/2 years of creditable graduate level education in music. The applicant meets 75 percent of the required experience and 50 percent of the required education, i.e., the applicant has 1/2 year of graduate study beyond that required for GS-9. Therefore, the applicant exceeds the total requirement and is qualified for the position. (The applicant's first 2 years of graduate study are not qualifying for GS-11.)Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for the position at grades GS-9 and GS-11.. 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/.
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