Health System Specialist
What you'd do
The Health System Specialist provides support to the Deputy Associate Director for Patient Care Service/Nursing Services (DAD for PCS/NS), in a variety of areas related to office management, business process coordination, data collection, analysis, and reporting. Performs duties directly contributing to the administrative management of an integrated health care delivery system that require the ability to apply the specialized principles and practices of health care management.
Major duties
The major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: Provides full staff assistance on administrative matters affecting the healthcare delivery system. Serves as a staff member directly supporting executive leadership responsible for planning, organization, development, direction, and evaluation of healthcare system operations. Implements long- and short-term plans, policies, and procedures, assuring that programs are integrated in order to support operational efficiencies and strategic priorities. Complete qualitative and quantitative studies including financial reports and cost effectiveness analyses. Develops reports, business plans and presentations for the healthcare system. Manages and/or prepares responses to organization correspondence and/or acts as a liaison or handles communication with persons and/or groups within and outside of the organization. Serves as a problem-solving resource for executive leadership and manages various strategic priorities and initiatives for executive leadership. Provides program direction to services, which includes continuing review and evaluation of operations, policies, and procedures to achieve efficiency, balance, and coordination among the facility programs and services. Assists with designing work processes and systems that are responsive to customer needs and uses customer feedback to plan and improve services. Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm Telework: Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD07087O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical 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, 08/06/2026. 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. 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. Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) 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. 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-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: knowledge of missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems in general and in the country at large; knowledge of the unique characteristics of the specific health care delivery system served, (e.g., facility resources and programs, medical school affiliations (community demographics, resources, and relationships) and the role and organization of professional societies and volunteer groups; ability to analyze problems and present both written and oral recommendations taking into full consideration the wide range of factors and requirements which affect the management of the health care delivery system. 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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