The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Healthcare Transformation (OHT) is a national office dedicated to improving VHA and Federal Government wide. **The first 50 applications received will receive first consideration. Applications that are submitted after the initial cut-off number has been reached will not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. **

Duties

Project Management- Fiscal The incumbent will assist with contract administration among OHT other VHA offices, and outside institutions. This includes monitoring contracted employee output, overseeing regular contracted operations, establishing performance measures and making decisions about the continuation and amendment of contracts. Provides for the budgeting and financial management for the incumbent's section of OHT. This may include budget formulation, justification and execution, financial management and financial reporting. Provides advice to local and VACO senior management on budgetary and finance issues. Assists leadership with reviewing office needs, plans, and goals to develop budget data and justification for review and approval. Works with fiscal to prepare budget packages for submission to OHT leadership and responds to all questions from that office. Project Management- Administrative The incumbent performs program specialized work, which includes assisting teams and programs related to the OHT. Identifies objectives and establishes overall priorities for project teams. Determines specific steps, input, and/or meetings required. Identifies schedules and milestones. Establishes new plans, objectives and milestones based on real- time progress of work. The incumbent plans and/or accomplishes special projects for major office or program issues of national and local impact. Conceives and implements new initiatives and projects to strengthen, facilitate, and integrate programs. Lead Performance Improvement Initiatives and Projects and Ensure Sustainability and Spread Responsible for ensuring sustainability and spread of efforts directed at improving quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency using management engineering. The incumbent will ensure that OHT improvements are sustained over time. Incumbent will help lead national efforts through collaboration with multiple VA offices and affiliates to educate staff on health systems redesign and to promote a culture of continuous learning and healthcare delivery improvement. Project Management- Technical The incumbent researches, analyzes, and organizes information to compose and present briefing summaries on initiatives, projects, and action items. This involves collaboration with OHT, ELT, VACO, VISN levels, and/or local VA medical center staff to understand processes, obtain necessary information, and appropriately express the findings in summary statements. Incumbent plans, coordinates and carries out the research and analysis of issues necessary to complete each phase of assigned local and national projects. Technical problems are normally resolved by the employee. Project Management- Communications Incumbent communicates with employees and leaders at local medical centers, academic affiliates, VISNs, and national level offices as well as with outside consultants and acknowledges the need for tactful and appropriate communications at all times. The incumbent utilizes these communications to continually further the assigned work/project. Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Required to work Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available (applicant is required on site 50% of work schedule per pay period). 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#: Program Specialist/PD02531A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/03/2024. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: 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: 1. Responsible for overseeing initiatives, establishing performance goals, and implementing strategies and actions. 2. Acts as a project leader for office related projects as assists with affiliated contracts and agreements. 3. Conceives and implements new initiatives and projects to strengthen, facilitate, and integrate programs. 4. Ensuring sustainability and spread of efforts directed at improving quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency using management engineering. 5. Work with teams responsible for improving systems to ensure that their projects are based on sound engineering principles. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical ThinkingCreative ThinkingProject ManagementSystems EngineeringWriting 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 and does not require any special physical effort. Some work may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site. Employee may carry light items such as papers, books, and portable computer requirement or driving a motor vehicle relative to attendance at meetings. The work often requires long hours to meet project deadlines and to devise corrective action and solutions to unexpected technical and/or management crises resulting in sometimes highly stressful work situations. 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 Servicing Human Resources Office - 2 2402 Wildwood Ave Suite 301 Sherwood, AR 72120 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]