Health System Specialist
What you'd do
The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is recruiting for a Health System Specialist. The Health System Specialist will function in the Office of the Director. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Staff Assistant to the Medical Center Director, Deputy Director, and Associate Director.
Major duties
The Health System Specialist duties include, but are not limited to: Acts on behalf of Executive Leadership and healthcare system senior leaders in communication with stakeholders both internal and external to the organization. Serves as liaison to multiple services/outpatient clinics while managing information flow and serves as the conduit for information flow and management of assignments between such offices. Provides senior expert level advice to senior personnel, and/or agency officials concerning complex, novel, and unusual issues. Analyzes subject matter of incoming information for appropriate distribution. Manages full life cycle projects that address specific problem areas and applies a high degree of analytical ability and specialized healthcare knowledge. Assists in the development of monitoring/auditing tools designed to provide healthcare system wide standardization of mitigation efforts. Participates on healthcare system committees and work groups that impact patient access, capital equipment, finance/budget management, resource/position management, employee/patient satisfaction etc. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 8:00am-4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD94620A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authoriized
What you need to qualify
In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the following requirements within 30 calendar days of the closing date listed on the announcement, 07/23/2026. 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-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. 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. Applicants must be eligible under the VA Interchange Agreement, having served continuously for at least one year in the other merit system under this interchange agreement. For more information regarding the VA Interchange Agreement please visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-authorities/competitive-hiring/. All Title 38 Veterans Canteen Service (VCS) employees must have served in their Excepted Service position for at least 90 days in order to be eligible for a position within the Competitive Service. Applicants who were previously selected under a Competitive Delegating Examining Unit (DEU) announcement must have served in their position for at least 90 days prior to being eligible for other positions within the Competitive Service. This position has an Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR). An IOR is part of the minimum qualifications for this occupational series. In order to meet the IOR you must have: Undergraduate and Graduate Level 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 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., OR 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. In addition to the qualification above you must also have: GS-13 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: leading in projects requested by top management, providing support in budgeting, contracting, and equipment decisions affecting medical center administrative and clinical operations, partnering with elected officials, state representatives and congressional delegations, providing support for administrative and clinical operations, identifying problems and making suggestions for corrective actions, preparing written correspondence on behalf of leadership teams, participating in emergency preparedness and safety responses, collecting data to plan, design, and conduct professional studies that enhances the operations of the healthcare system, communicating with internal and external stakeholders. NOTE: Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hours worked per week. 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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