This position is in the VHA Office of Health Informatics (OHI), Office of Clinical Informatics (OCI), Client Portfolio Management Office (CPMO). This position supports planning, reporting, and facilitation of the decision-making process around changes to the EHR health informatics user experience and functionality. This vacancy may be filled in Washington, DC or a location to be determined

Duties

Major duties include but are not limited to: Conduct risk analysis, feasibility study, and/or trade-off analysis to develop, document, and refine functional requirements and specifications. Consult with customers to evaluate functional requirements. Coordinate with systems architects and developers, as needed, to provide oversight in the development of design solutions. Define project scope and objectives based on customer requirements. Develop and document requirements, capabilities, and constraints for design procedures and processes. Oversee and make recommendations regarding configuration management. Perform needs analysis to determine opportunities for new and improved business process solutions. Prepare use cases to justify the need for specific information technology (IT) solutions. Translate functional requirements into technical solutions. Develop and document User Experience (UX) requirements including information architecture and user interface requirements. Design and document quality standards. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 08:00 AM - 04:30pm Telework: Available (applicant is required on site 50% of work schedule per pay period) Remote: This is not a remote position. Virtual: The employee may work at a VA facility or other VA-leased space other than the facility that is hiring the employee) and is authorized for telework up to 50%. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD75688ARelocation/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 by the closing date of this announcement, 07/29/2024. 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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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 Requirements (IOR): The 0671 Occupational series has an IOR that must be met: 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, 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. Selective Factor: This position includes a selective factor (skill, knowledge, ability, or other worker characteristic basic to - and essential for - satisfactory performance of the job). Selective factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet them are ineligible for further consideration. The selective factors for this position are: Expertise in program management and health informatics with progressive experience and success in leading interdisciplinary teams and projects related to large EHRs platforms as applied within clinical programs and services across VAMCs, VISNs, or the National VA Enterprise. Expertise in coordination of cross-cutting activities for multiple offices or organizational units, to include tracking and managing a wide range of administrative program decisions dealing with VHA policy, procedures, budget guidelines, and workforce management plans. Experience in interacting and engaging with a wide variety of clinical, administrative, information technology and senior leadership staff at all levels of the organization (VA - facility, VISN and Central Office experience preferable) to assess informatics-related needs; collect, organize, analyze, and evaluate data about VISN and/or VHA medical facility needs; and evaluate fulfillment of those needs. Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Extensive experience ensuring integration of planning initiatives in terms of phasing and monitoring implementation of health informatics projects, providing technical expertise in the field of health care informatics planning, and providing advice and assistance regarding possible need for revision of regulations and policies governing planning activities. Experience developing background and management options available to deal with complex health informatics related organizational planning and implementation issues. Experience managing system reviews, controlling and reporting on project status, and monitoring project status and adjusting work plans for project accomplishment; and analyzing management information requirements to recommend program or administrative systems including the systems specifications, data gathering and source, analytical techniques, and systems evaluation methodology. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Project Management Planning and Evaluation Health Informatics Communication Analytical Thinking 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 will involve standing, sitting, and walking. Travel to local institutions and to other facilities within the VISN as well as VA central office may be necessary on an occasional basis. Most activities will be performed at a computer terminal. 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address VHA Service Center - 1 6100 Oak Tree Boulevard Independence, OH 44131 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]