The Deputy Chief Digital Health Officer is organizationally aligned to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of the Under Secretary for Health and serves as a key member of the VHA Digital Health Office Executive Leadership team. The Deputy Chief Digital Health Officer is the principal advisor and fully delegated interim to the Chief Digital Health Officer.

Duties

The Office of Digital Health is the Strategic leader of Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) digital health strategy. The office provides programmatic oversight, executive leadership and serves as the Department's representative on all matters relating to digital health across the entire VHA enterprise. The Deputy Chief Digital Health Officer is organizationally aligned to the VHA, Office of the Under Secretary for Health. The responsibilities include, but not limited to: Provide strategic leadership and champion innovation in the application of informatics technology and tools in a health care setting to advance health care processes, clinical decision support and clinical predictive modeling. Develop and implement strategy, policies, and procedures for the evaluation, implementation and use of digital health information systems. Ensure Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is maximizing the potential for digital health technology to achieve excellence in Veterans and staff experiences, health outcomes, and access. Collaborate closely with end users in the field and Veterans to understand their needs and how VA's digital health solutions are and are not working for end users. Uses these insights to determine the priorities for VA's digital health technology. Oversee the design, standardization, deployment and implementation of digital health tools throughout VHA to augment the provision of whole health care for Veterans, caregivers, and staff. Working in partnership with VA's Office of Information and Technology, ensure VA's digital health system architecture is appropriate for VA's needs with regards to usability, reliability and functionality for system end users. Integrate VHA's varied and disparate digital health needs into a coherent and actionable set of digital health priorities for execution.

Requirements

• US citizenship is required.
• One year probationary period required for initial SES appointment.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Incumbents of this position will be subject to a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.
• Successful completion of drug screening required.
• Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278) is required within 30 days of appointment.
• May be subject to reassignment geographically or organizationally.
• VA structures its SES positions into pay bands. This is a pay band 2 position and the salary range is $147,649 to $214,300. Exceptions to the cap of the range may be considered in certain circumstances.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicants must possess the following technical and executive core qualifications. These qualifications would typically be gained through progressively responsible management or executive level assignments such as director of a regional office, medical facility or program manager. An individual's total experience, education and volunteer work experience must demonstrate the ability to perform the duties of the position. 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; religious; 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. MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative response to each of the following ECQs and include your name on each page. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and demonstrate the underlying competencies in the narrative. Examples should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities; the scope and complexity of the programs, activities, or services you managed; program accomplishments; policy initiatives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues you addressed; and the results of your actions. You should use action oriented leadership words to describe your experience and accomplishments and quantify your experience wherever possible to demonstrate your accomplishments (e.g., number of employees supervised; size of budget managed; amount of money saved, etc.). Applicants should use the Challenge, Context, Action and Results (CCAR) model below when responding to each ECQ: Challenge. Describe a specific problem or goal. Context. Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (e.g., clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale, etc). Action. Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge. Result. Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization. These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills. Your narrative response should not exceed 10 pages, be typed in 12 point font with one-inch margins. It is recommended that you include 2 recent (not older than 10 years) examples per ECQ and draft your ECQs in a Word document before uploading into the system to ensure these guidelines are met. Information that exceeds these guidelines will not be reviewed. Detailed information on each ECQ, the underlying and fundamental competencies, sample narratives and a tips sheet for writing effective ECQs are available in the "Guide To Senior Executive Service Qualifications" GUIDE (opm.gov) at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/. 1. Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. (Underlying Competencies: Creativity and Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, and Vision) 2. Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. (Underlying Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others and Team Building) 3. Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. (Underlying Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving and Technical Credibility) 4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically. (Underlying Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management and Technology Management) 5. Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. (Underlying Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy and Influencing/Negotiation) TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: In addition, all applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following specific TQ(s). Please label and include your name on each page. Please give examples and explain how often you used your skills, the complexity of the knowledge possessed, the level of people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled managing a large public or private sector organization that administers complex, rules-based benefits or services, etc. It is recommended that you draft your TQ(s) in a word document and then upload into the system. Your narrative response should not exceed 2 pages. TQ1: Expert-level knowledge of current concepts in healthcare such as: communicating and providing guidance on national level healthcare policy to internal and external stakeholders, defining and evaluating new policy recommendations that directly impact patient care, overseeing senior leadership and staff responsible for national healthcare policy, analyzing information and data to identify improvement opportunities to maximize access to care, and developing treatment standards to monitor the quality of care on a national level.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Veterans Health Administration - S125 810 Vermont Avenue NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Dione Moore
• Email: [email protected]