Supervisory Dietitians in this assignment serve as a Supervisory Dietitian Program Coordinator at a facility, leading a multidisciplinary team. They are administratively responsible for a specialty program and provide program specific leadership, guidance and direction, technical advice, and staff development.

Duties

Duties include, but are not limited to the following: Manage all aspects of the program for the facility, assuring local compliance with national policy and direction. Coordinate with the multidisciplinary team to develop local goals. Measure progress toward the goals and reports to the appropriate officials at a local, VISN and national level. Plan, direct, and assess the work of subordinate staff. Establish performance standards. Evaluate the overall performance of employees. Develop and evaluate the competence of subordinate staff, maintaining records as defined by the agency. Take steps necessary to ensure subordinate personnel maintain their technical competence. Provide direct patient care by developing and implementing comprehensive nutrition therapy, practicing within their scope/clinical privileges. Assure proper coordination of care for Veterans enrolled in the program. Serve as the professional and technical advisor for their program. Promote and maintain effective working relationships with all faculty and significant parties at the national, state, and local level. Direct or participate in the design of studies, collect data, conduct statistical analysis, interpret findings, and translate results into written and oral communications. Set priorities, delegate tasks, meet multiple deadlines, analyze organizational problems, and develop and implement effective solutions. Serve as a consultant and technical advisor within nutrition and food services and with other facility health care staff in evaluating health care delivery to Veterans and employees. Determine the continuing education needs of program staff and appropriate resources to meet those needs. Oversee all aspects for the program, policy, and procedure development. Oversee development and maintenance of training and reference materials. Establish and manage program goals and objectives. Plan and administer a program, coordinate associated activities and resources, evaluate program accomplishments, redefine priorities, problem solve, and modify objectives. Formulate the annual budget, taking into consideration staffing, supplies, and equipment needs. Determine staffing needs and request new FTEE for the overall management of organizational changes. Ensure multi-year and long-range national mission directives and program goals/objectives are met. Maintain program information through approved social media outlets. May perform other duties as assigned which are appropriate for this grade and assignment. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Available, Ad-Hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 99516-S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. English Language Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f). Registration: Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) or Registered Dietitian (RD) - Must be registered with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) the credentialing branch of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics formerly known as the American Dietetic Association (ADA). (Must provide copy of registration) May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria). GRADE DETERMINATION: Supervisory Dietitian (Facility Program Coordinator), GS-13 Experience. One year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade level. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs: (a) Knowledge of program administration to establish and modify program goals and objectives, coordinate activities, evaluate accomplishments and solve problems. (b) Skill in developing quality improvement or research activities. (c) Skill in developing training and reference materials. (d) Ability to supervise subordinate staff (i.e., plan, organize, delegate, direct, control and review activities and performance). (e) Ability to develop policies and procedures. (f) Ability to provide program-specific coordination to include leadership, technical advice and staff development. Assignment. For all supervisory assignments above the full performance level, the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope, complexity, difficulty, variety and be performed by the incumbent as a major duty at least 25% of the time. The incumbent must spend 25% or more of their time providing administrative and technical supervision over staff at the GS-11 or above. Supervisory Dietitians in this assignment serve as a Supervisory Dietitian Program Coordinator at a facility and report to a GS 13 or above. Supervisory Dietitian Program Coordinators lead a multi disciplinary team. Supervisory Dietitian Program Coordinators provide program-specific leadership and exercise a full range of supervisory and personnel management authorities and responsibilities in planning, directing and assessing the work of subordinate staff. They establish performance standards and evaluate the overall performance of employees; define competency requirements, identify developmental and training needs and take necessary actions to ensure subordinate personnel maintains and enhance technical expertise. Supervisory Dietitian Program Coordinators formulate budget and staffing requirements in managing organizational changes and ensuring multi-year and long-range national mission directives and program goals/objectives are met. They are administratively responsible for a specialty program. Supervisory Dietitian Program Coordinators may provide direct patient care as they develop and implement comprehensive nutrition therapy, practicing within their scope/clinical privileges. They provide program-specific guidance and direction and technical advice and staff development. Supervisory Dietitian Program Coordinators have oversight responsibilities for program and policy and procedure development, set goals and monitor and redefine priorities and may have an active role in fiscal management for the program. They direct or participate in designing clinical research activities or quality improvement studies, including data collection and analysis. Supervisory Dietitian Program Coordinators oversee and are responsible for developing and maintaining training and reference materials. They maintain program information through approved social media outlets. REFERENCES: VA Handbook 5005/154 Part II Appendix G20 The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-13. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: This work requires moderate lifting (15-44 pounds), moderate carrying (15-44 pounds), reaching above shoulder, both hands required, walking (2 hours), standing (2 hours), kneeling (1 hour), far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other, and ability to distinguish basic colors. Environmental factors include dust.

Education

IMPORTANT: 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 Anchorage VA Medical Center 1201 North Muldoon Road Anchorage, AK 99504 US
• Name: Randi Tran
• Phone: 509-434-7000 X6680
• Email: [email protected]