Job opening: Records and Information Management Specialist
Salary: $59 966 - 94 317 per year
Published at: Aug 19 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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
This position is within the Health Administration Services at Truman VA Medical Center in Columbia, MO, which is a Complexity Level 1c facility. Records and Information Management Specialist primary duties and responsibilities involve formulating and implementing policy, performing strategic analysis, planning, leading, organizing, and directing program outreach and training, developing metrics, and ensuring federally mandated information governance and accountability measures.
Duties include, but may not be limited to:
The Records Officer is the delegated authority and senior technical advisor on all matters relating to federal records management and information governance regardless of media. - The Officer's primary duties and responsibilities involve singularly formulating and implementing policy, performing strategic analysis, planning, leading, organizing, and directing program outreach and training, developing metrics, and ensuring federally mandated information governance and accountability measures are effectively in place. - The Officer implements, overseas, and directs the broad Health Care System's records management program functions through expert technical and procedural implementation based on federal requirements of VHA Records Control Schedule (RCS) 10-1, General Records Schedule (GRS), 36 Code of Federal Regulations(CFR), Title 18, 31, 38, 40, 44 United States Codes (U.S.C), 41 CFR, the Privacy Act (PA) as amended, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and implementing regulations, Executive Orders, 0MB Memorandums, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) policies and requirements. - The Records Officer will independently develop and utilize records management metrics, dashboards, audits, surveys, and other reports to identify potential issues related to the Health Care System records management program. - Conducts site visits to all outpatient clinics and contracted CBOCs as well as business affiliates to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the overall records management program and ensure records information management compliance. - Develops detailed assessment reports and corrective action plans after identification and analysis of problem areas. Compiles and presents findings to service chiefs, management, and upper leadership (or designees) and follows up on action plans until full remediation. - The incumbent will undertake problem solving initiatives that encompass records life cycles, releases, training and education, system of records amendments, and dispositions (destruction, sanitization and transfer).
Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Management Analyst; GS-0308-9 Target 11, PD-99904-S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
References: Please provide "References" with application. At a minimum two current or former supervisors or from individuals who were in a position of a professional nature. Indicated if the Hiring Manager may contact.
Requirements
- You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
- Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
- You may be required to serve a probationary period
- Subject to background/security investigation
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/26/2024.
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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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.
You may qualify based on your experience and/or educations described below:
- Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to:
Specialized Experience: GS-9 You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-07) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include but are not limited to: Skill in applying analytical and evaluative techniques to the identification, consideration and resolution of issues or problems of a procedural or factual nature. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience.
To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree in a related field OR 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a related field OR LL. B or J.D in a related field. (COPY OF TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and education listed above.
Specialized Experience: GS-11 You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-09) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: knowledge and skill in applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to issues or studies concerning the efficiency and effectiveness of program operations. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR three (3) full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or a LL.M, in related field. (COPY OF TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and education as listed above.
You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
CommunicationsComplianceEmergency ManagementOrganizational Performance AnalysisPerformance Measurement
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 usually sedentary but may involve some standing and walking to outlying areas. Some bending, lifting, or carrying of light items may be 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:
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: David Jackson
- Phone: 573-814-6400
- Email: [email protected]
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