The incumbent serves as the Strategic Planner for the VA North Texas Healthcare System (VANTHCS) in Dallas, Texas. As the Strategic Planner, the incumbent performs duties guiding the strategic and administrative management of the integrated health care delivery system and is primarily responsible for planning the effective and efficient delivery of health care in a defined service area using strategic thinking and planning principles specific to health care management.

Duties

A Recruitment/Relocation Incentive may be authorized for a Highly Qualified Individual. Duties include but not limited to: Leads VANTHCS planning cycle to include environmental scanning, gap analyses, strategy development and prioritization, implementation, and tracking. Incumbent is required to lead a multi-disciplinary team through the planning cycle per VHA and VISN guidance, eliciting input from senior leadership and coordinating planning related activities of governanceboard. Incumbent is responsible for coordinating the development and effective implementation of the Operating Plan that is aligned with the VHA Level II Long Range Plan. The incumbent is responsible for tracking implementation progress through integrated plan management system. Performs ongoing environmental analyses to understand local market dynamics and the impact of industry trends and health care policy on the organization's strategic direction. Ensures the completion of VHA Planning Guidance requirements (e.g., strategic-operational planning, service delivery for North Texas market and Access Expansion Plan submissions. Designs a service delivery plan for North Texas market that provides timely and accessible care and that leverages all community resources, where possible. Analyzes, develops, recommends, and implements plans to establish, relocate, expand, downsize, and divest of VA sites of care and services, where appropriate, with the goal of right-sizing VA assets based on market projections and in collaboration with all public and private healthcare providers and organizations. Researches, engages, and collaborates with public and private community health care providers and organizations to expand VHA's health care delivery network, improve access to care, identify innovative solutions and leverage all community resources in support of the Veteran population. Serves as the facility lead, coordinator, or maintains situational awareness for any VA/DoD Sharing Agreements and Joint Incentive Fund (JIF) projects. Serves as Team Lead, directing the completion of planning tasks and responsibilities; and coordinating planning activities to ensure the integration of health system planning priorities into a consolidated service delivery plan. Builds consensus among market sites through facilitation, negotiation and influencing in support of a unified market service delivery plan. Develops and manages related tracking mechanisms for HCS planning activities and actions. This includes tracking the Strategic Plan tactical actions from Committees and Services. Performs market population-based demographic studies involving data collection and analysis, forecasting and related methodologies; and advises facilities on planning issues associated with program development and expansion initiatives. Performs special projects for the Medical Center and Deputy Executive Director involving facility-specific or VISN-wide initiatives (e.g., Congressional Briefings, White Papers, Joint VISN meetings, special focus studies). Projects will often require presentations (formal and informal) Including narrative, graphic and visual mediums. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm or 8:00am - 4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist (Strategic Planner) - Recruitment/Relocation Incentive/PD002450 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/29/2024. 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 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. Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR). An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can't be waived. The Individual Occupational Requirement for the Health System Specialist position is: Education: Undergraduate and Graduate Education with a major study in hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. OR Experience: You must have 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. Special Provision for In-service 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: In addition to the individual occupation requirements listed above, you must also have: Specialized Experience: You must have 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: Designs a service delivery plans that provides timely and accessible care and that leverages all community resources, where possible; Performs ongoing environmental analyses to understand local market dynamics and the impact of industry trends and health care policy on the organization's strategic direction; Performs market population-based demographic studies involving data collection and analysis, forecasting and related methodologies; and advises facilities on planning issues associated with program development and expansion initiatives. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Planning and Evaluating Research Strategic Thinking Communications 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 work may require movement between offices, hospitals, warehouses, and similar areas for meetings and to conduct work. Work may also require walking/standing, in conjunctions with travel to and attendance at meetings and/or conferences away from the work site. Incumbent may carry and lift light items weighing less than 15 pounds. 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

Education may only be used to meet IOR requirement.

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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

NOTE: If your school has changed names, or is no longer in existence, you must provide this information in your application.

Contacts

• Address Dallas VA Medical Center 4500 South Lancaster Road Dallas, TX 75216 US
• Name: VISN 17 SSU USAS Group
• Email: [email protected]