This placement is located in the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), as the Health System Administrator (Assistant Medical Center Director) for Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center. The Assistant Director exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections. This position reports directly to the Director of the VAMC in the Senior Executive Service (SES).

Duties

The Assistant Director is required to resolve complex and unusual health care administration issues by independent analysis and action, with the potential to set precedent, and lead organizational change. The Assistant Director is responsible for the development of plans, programs, direction, and monitoring of clinic and health plan management. This encompasses activities to (1) maintain or improve the quality of service and health care delivered by the health care system, (2) develop and execute budget projections, (3) achieve veteran satisfaction, and (4) respond to accreditation and regulatory requirements. The Assistant Director applies specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration. Budget and Fiscal Management: Budget and Fiscal Management for the facility services assigned such as resource management and FTEE control within the assigned services. The Assistant Director oversees the management of administrative services supporting assigned operations. Assistant Director performs financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance. Voting member of the Executive Leadership Committee and other committees as assigned. Provides sound fiscal management practices. Human Capital Management: Exercises full line authority for multiple administrative functions (services and sections) and indirectly for all clinical matters affecting patient care. Delegates authority and holds managers under his/her oversight responsible and accountable for the performance of their service lines, programs and human capital requirements. Functions as a first-line supervisor. In this capacity the Assistant Director exercises a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities which include: (a) prioritizing major work efforts;(b) evaluating the performance of the service level management teams; (c) giving advice, counsel, or instruction; (d) interviewing and tentatively selecting candidates for key centralized positions, and recommending appointment, promotion or reassignment involving such positions; (e) hearing and resolving appropriate complaints and grievances; (f) effecting disciplinary measures, recommending action to higher level officials; and (g) identifying and providing management development and training needs of key staff members. The Assistant Director provides timely and responsive decisions to the union(s) and their members on complaints and grievances and ensures that supervisors are familiar with the negotiated agreement. Stakeholder Relations: Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The Assistant Director is responsible for promoting the understanding of the health care delivery system's mission within the local community and proactively advising both of benefit and/or hospital changes and information. Internally, the Assistant Director serves as a facilitator between clinical providers and administrators to meet the medical center's goals and objectives; responsible for developing and maintaining good working relations with other medical centers in the local area and throughout the region, medical schools, accrediting agencies, volunteer worker groups, and the community at large. Systematic Internal Review: Provides an extremely high level of analytical and cognitive ability. Lead facility implementation and oversight of President's/VA/VHA/VISN initiatives includes but not limited to Strategic Planning, High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience, Whole Health and / or Community Care. The Assistant Director conducts internal systematic reviews; and serves as an essential capacity for developing and coordinating internal measures to assure that both clinical and administrative operations are in within governing standards. Directs analysis and evaluation of health care delivery quality and effectiveness and ensures provision of health care services that complies with all accrediting agencies. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: Not available Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health Systems Administrator (Assistant Medical Center Director)/PD99901S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized For highly qualified candidates, subject to funding. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): AUTHORIZED FOR HIGHLY QUALIFIED CANDIDATES, SUBJECT TO FUNDING Financial Disclosure Report: Required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/15/2024. 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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. 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): Education: Applicants must have undergraduate or graduate education in a major field of study hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED); OR Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: 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. Applicants must also possess: Management ability to delegate authority, evaluate and oversee people and programs, recognize and adapt to changing priorities; and Knowledge of the interrelationships and interdependencies among various medical and administrative services and programs. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementFinancial ManagementHuman Capital ManagementOrganizational Performance AnalysisPartnering 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. It occasionally requires carrying light objects such as files, books, and papers. No special physical qualifications are 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

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/.

Contacts

• Address Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center 1481 West Tenth Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 US
• Name: Kevin Anderson
• Phone: 210-956-2593
• Email: [email protected]