The Chief of Education is a facility-based learning leader with oversight, responsibility and accountability for all employee education accredited and affiliated clinical trainee programs within the Sheridan Veterans Affairs Health Care System (SVAHCS), a low complexity facility. This system has a huge geographical outreach with approximately 800 employees and 75 trainees serving the Wyoming Veteran population.

Duties

Major duties include but not limited to: Identifies, develops and/or initiates programs to ensure a safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff. Identifies outcomes that can be improved and leads the performance improvement process. Provides leadership in the development, implementations and revision of policies, protocols, procedures, standards of care and competencies for complex and diverse integrated programs. Incorporates internal and external review organizations and accrediting bodies required training into facility education plan. Chairs education and training committee. Utilizes the nursing process to systematically analyze and develop programs. Participates in performance improvement activities at the service, facility and VISN level. Prepares and develops presentations for training purposes. Develops position descriptions, performance standards, performance plans, and evaluations. Performs other duties assigned Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 07:30am-16:00pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Learning Resources Officer(Chief of Education)/PD141160 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/17/2023. 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. Individual Occupational Requirements Basic Requirements: Degree: that included or was supplemented by major study in education or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position. or Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in education, or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position, plus appropriate experience or additional course work that provided knowledge comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of the 4-year course of study described in A above. For Child Development Training and Curriculum Specialist positions with the Departments of the Air Force and Navy, and Education Program Specialist positions with the Department of the Army, the education must have been in child development or early childhood education. For Child Development Director and Assistant Director positions with the Department of the Air Force; Child Development Services Coordinator, Child Development Center Director and Assistant Director, Family Child Care Director, Outreach Worker, and Supplemental Programs and Services Director positions with the Department of the Army; and Child Development Program Administrator and Child Development Center Director positions with the Department of the Navy; the education must have been in child development, early childhood education, home economics (early childhood emphasis), elementary education, special education, or other fields appropriate to the position to be filled. For director and administrator positions with the Department of the Navy, education in child care administration, in addition to the above fields, is qualifying, and qualifying education in special education must have had a concentration in early childhood education. Evaluation of Experience: Some positions appropriately classifiable in this series involve work in connection with grants or similar funding activities to further educational progress. For such positions, experience gained in an occupational area similar or closely related to the position is qualifying experience, provided such experience involved judgment of a kind and level of difficulty and responsibility essential to successful performance in the position to be filled. For Child Development Director and Assistant Director positions with the Department of the Air Force, and Child Development Services Coordinator, Child Development Center Director and Assistant Director, Family Child Care Director, Outreach Worker, and Supplemental Programs and Services Director positions with the Department of the Army, specialized experience must have been in group child care or other work that demonstrated the ability to: Manage the operation of a child care center. Select, train, and supervise child care and preschool employees, family child care providers, or other care-giving adults. Develop and implement child development programs, including family day care programs, part-day preschool programs, and before and after school programs. Work with individuals and groups to solve complex problems related to the care and education of children. The following are examples of qualifying specialized experience for Air Force and Army child development positions: For GS-5 and GS-7, experience that involved teaching young children in a preschool, early elementary school, church school, or day care center. For GS-9, experience in managing an entire cycle of operation of an early childhood program, including budgeting; facility management; supply management; program development; implementation; selection, training, and supervision of personnel; and curriculum oversight. For GS-11 and above, experience in managing a large, complex child development program offering a wide range of services, in a variety of settings. You may qualify based on your experience 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: Developing and initiating programs to ensure safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff; identifies clinical/administrative outcomes that can be improved; review/revise policies, procedures for complex and diverse integrated programs; incorporates internal and external review of organization training into facility education plan; prepares and develop presentations for training purposes; use of information systems, internet, and computer software; coordinates with other Services toward completing reports, preparation and support for submission to VISN, Office of Academic Affiliations and VA Central Office. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementCommunicationsComputer SkillsEmployee DevelopmentFlexibilityInterpersonal SkillsOrganizational Development 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: The work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. 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.

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Sheridan VA Medical Center 1898 Fort Road Sheridan, WY 82801 US
• Name: Tenika Ivery
• Phone: 303-756-9279
• Email: [email protected]