Truman VA Medical Center is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

Duties

The Facility Planner for Harry S. Truman Memorial Veteran's Hospital (HSTMVH) works in a broad capacity with all services at the facility and is part of HSTMVH strategic planning team that supports the entire medical center, which consists of 124 bed Health Care Facility with 35 bed Community Living Center, 14 Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit beds (ICU), 24 in patient medicine beds, 18 in patient surgical beds, and 12 step-down unit (SDU) beds. The duties include but are not limited to: Serves as a member of the HSTMVH management staff, actively participating in the development of overall strategic capital plans and objectives Provide input, advice, and counsel for complete HSTMVH space planning and programming Serves as subject matter expert on issues affecting space management and SCIP submissions Collaborate with service chiefs, leadership, multidisciplinary teams, and executive leadership team to ensure integrated goals and priorities are achieved Consults with senior management to ensure that the planning, programming, and presentation of the medical center's strategic plans are coordinated and being implemented in the construction planning process Responsible for the annual business case process, requirements, and submission Develop short and long term plans to delineate medium and long term capital improvement projects and to meet the intent of projected clinical needs and/or service Serves as Contracting Officer Representative Coordinate construction schedules, equipment deliveries, staffing changes, mandated dates, and stakeholder input Work Schedule: 7:30 am - 4:00 pm Compressed/Flexible: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: PD092460 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, 01/08/2024. 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 GS12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS11. 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 Requirement (IOR): Undergraduate and Graduate 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. AND Specialized Experience: One year 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. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Participate in the development of overall strategic capital plans and objectives. Provide input, advice, and counsel for complete HSTMVH space planning and programming. Facilitates the HSTMVH Activation Committee and the HSTMVH Space Committee. Work with all services and senior leadership to resolve space planning issues. Consult senior management to ensure that the planning, programming, and presentation of the medical center's strategic plans are coordinated and being implemented in the construction planning process. Manage, assess, enter, and extract information from a wide variety of VA databases. Responsible for the annual business case process (currently this is the strategic capital investment plan, requirements, and submission. Serve as Contracting Officer Representative for all HSTMVH facility leases. Actively develop, analyze, and report data to support actions defined in the HSTMVH Strategic Plan. Identifies, evaluates, and recommends solutions to operational health systems problems; ensures effective and efficient management practices; and maintains customer satisfaction. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and Management, Capital Planning and Investment Assessment, Customer Service, and Project Management 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 sedentary. Some travel is required. This position is virtual. No other special physical demands are required of this work. 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.

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 Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital 800 Hospital Drive Columbia, MO 65201 US
• Name: Rachel Gallagher
• Phone: 785-640-9971
• Email: [email protected]