This position is located in the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) Office within the Program Executive Director (PED) Office for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO), within the Office of the Deputy Secretary of VA (DEPSECVA), where the incumbent serves as EHR Data Standards Manager responsible for developing informatics and interoperability capabilities.

Duties

Leads efforts and initiatives that execute strategic initiatives to enhance the use of EHR informatics across the organization and identified stakeholder groups. Develops EHR standards, policies, practices, and procedures that enable informatics, interoperability and ultimately improve patient outcomes. Directs team efforts to produce actionable plans that enhance partnership in HER standards development, technology utilization, and informatics best practices. Manages short-and long-range planning activities to develop EHR Standards that include multi-year work plans that are the products of subordinate organizational projects/programs. Leverages and develops the principles of health interoperability standards to lead into collaboration efforts with standards development organizations (SDOs), federal Departments and industry partners. Develops and enhances health IT standards, working with cross-functional teams to achieve consensus. Reviews EHR data management programs/projects to determine how they can be accomplished with the least disruption to workers and mission operations and that directions and schedules are accomplished in a timely manner. Oversees development of program/project plans that establish health IT standards for EHR and engages end-users to solicit input and define requirements. Develops detailed plans, tasks, milestone dates and schedules to ensure proper sequencing of events and tracking of processes and costs throughout the life cycle of the programs/projects. Coordinates with senior agency leaders and technical personnel within EHRM and FEHRM to ensure architecture is compliant with regulatory policies, communication, software standards and with user requirements. Contributes and leads regular information planning sessions, maintains productive interaction with staff, contractors and partners, reports on the status and progress of work accomplished to date and monitors work in progress. Manages and facilitates stakeholder meetings to develop plans. Elicits customer support in the development of acquisitions, scope, and finalizing project schedule while reducing product risk. Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Compressed/Flexible: At management's discretion. Telework: Up to 50% telework per pay period may be authorized at the management's discretion. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Program Manager (EHR Standards Manager)/PD205580 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): No 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, 05/15/2024. 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-15 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-14. 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. AND Selective Placement Factor: This position includes a skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to -and essential for- satisfactory performance of the job. Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. Evidence of the Selective Placement Factor must be reflected in your resume The Selective Placement Factor for this position is: Experience in data governance principles, policies, and best practices with the ability to design and implement data governance frameworks. AND Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-14 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: (1) Directing EHR data program activities that lead to establishment of health IT data standards for the federal EHR. (2) Overseeing a complex environment with a myriad of high-interest stakeholders to operationalize the development, management, oversight, planning, and execution of EHR Data Standards. (3) Providing day-to-day direction to staff members, (uniformed service members, civilians, and contractor personnel) as the workload manager to execute the EHR purpose, goals, and strategies. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: CommunicationsInformation Resources Strategy and PlanningPlanning and EvaluatingProject 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 primarily sedentary. No special physical demands 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

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address Electronic Health Record Modernization - Integration Office 811 Vermont Avenue NW 2nd Floor 00EHR Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]