Program Specialist (Physician Recruiter)
What you'd do
The incumbent serves as a Program Specialist with the Chief of Staff office at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta GA. responsible for the coordination of developing and directing the Facility Physician Recruitment Program. The incumbent is supervised by the Chief of Staff.
Major duties
Duties include, but not limited to the following: Serves as the primary source for individuals inquiring about physician recruitment; providing advice and guidance on the procedures of applying for a position, explaining recruitment/relocation incentives, Education Debt Reduction program, credentialing and privileging. Serves as the Subject Matter Expert in recruitment and placement of Title 38 Physicians. Develops outreach techniques to locate qualified and diversified candidates to hard to fill positions. Ensures that the specific requirements of physician positions are being recruited for in a myriad of places i.e., websites, journals, personal recruitment campaigns through universities. Utilizes multiple advertising and face to face venues to accomplish the mission to including but not limited to Career Fairs at Universities and Medical Schools, Virtual Job Fairs, Commercial Job Fairs, canvasing contact listing from professional associations, and other electronic communication methods. Assists managers in completing VA I 0016, Recruitment Incentives both Parts A and B. Researches and utilizes appropriate recruiting tools from VA and VHA. Collaborates with Public Affairs to develop a marketing campaign designed to attract individuals that may not initially be interested in relocating. Maintains a database to track positions and candidates leads for short- and long-term use. Serves as local facility subject matter expert for Non-Citizen VISAs and the applicable standards and procedures for these types of appointments. Manages and/or prepare reports and coordinates the establishment and tracking of HR metric and provide a weekly report to the Chief of Staff as to areas for improvement. Regularly reports the Physician Recruitment HR metrics to hospital leadership. Works with Service Chiefs on the development of pay for performance standards and track and trend the completion and performance standard improvements and provide a biannual report to the Chief of Staff. Track part-time and fee basis provider agreements. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 4:00 pm. Work schedule subject to change based on agency needs. Telework: This position may be authorized for Ad-hoc telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Position Description/PD#: Program Specialist (Physician Recruiter)/PD164240 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, 08/10/2026. 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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. 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 (1) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Example of the specialized commonly include, but are not limited to: planning, organizing and implementing a health care delivery system recruitment program; applying HR policies, laws and regulations to develop program/protocols that standardize work in filling vacancies; applying data analytics in conducting physician salary surveys, meeting performance metrics, evaluating dashboard metrics, developing reports, track and trend progress and using performance improvement techniques identifying and managing various pay plans/tables/tiers, occupational series, incentives; managing a complex program for a medical school affiliated medical center; and facilitating presentations, conducting education classes and negotiating salaries. Preferred experience; Physician Recruitment. Physical Requirements: Regular and recurring work performed involves sitting at a desk, and/or attendance at conferences/meetings. Some physical demands evolve from stressful and protracted negotiations as the liaison with all services and in putting together customized recruitment packages that will successfully place a physician in needed positions within the medical center. 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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