Serves as Health System Specialist assigned to the Clinician Experience (ClinX) Division, Office of Clinical Informatics (OCI) Office of Health Informatics (OHI). The incumbent is assigned to the ClinX Health IT Product Management and Engineering Analysis Section and supports product management for development of nationally-utilized clinical applications for the current and future health informatics environments. This vacancy may be filled in Washington, DC or a location to be determined

Duties

Major duties include but are not limited to: Responsible for participation in the development of select strategies and operational plans and objectives, budgets and project prioritization and schedules for Health IT Product Management. Ensures voice of the customer guides development teams in building software capabilities with the highest business and customer impact, and supports prioritizing and manage product backlogs and incorporate feedback from business stakeholders to guide continuous product improvement. Provides program management accountability and project ownership for a system wide approach to informatics projects throughout the Systems Development LifeCycle (SDLC). Analyzes and evaluates operation or planned activities; identifies and recommends changes needed in software development lifecycle. Provides strategic and program direction for evaluating initiating and managing ongoing informatics projects as well as developing and shepherding new projects through the approval and implementation processes. Researches, analyzes, and makes recommendations that contribute to the development of software systems to improve the delivery of safe healthcare. Keeps abreast of emerging technology trends, VHA software development projects and activities, application packages and activities in the data processing community, as well as current developments in operating systems, data base management systems and equipment related to the supported systems in the VHA Informatics environment. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 08:00 AM - 04:30pm Telework: Available (applicant is required on site up to 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 Title/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD77023A Physical Requirements: Work is sedentary. The work requires long periods of sitting and working on a computer terminal. It occasionally requires carrying light objects such as books, files, and paper.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/suitability investigation
• May serve a probationary period
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc.
• 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. 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. AND 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: Experience of applying, lean and agile methods for continuous improvement. Experience applying system engineering thinking and methods for scalability. Experience managing an enterprise product that is used by a very large user-base. AND GS-14 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes: Experience assessing the impact of Information technology and informatics initiatives on end user workflow clinical processes and achieving programmatic goals. Experience providing guidance for interim, phase, milestone, and final project reviews; identifying project documentation requirements and procedures; and supporting development and implementation of product release plans. Experience coordinating the resources necessary for successful project completion, while overseeing all schedules and timelines, change control procedures, resource estimation and management and project maintenance procedures. Experience planning and coordinating implementation of process improvement methods and concepts that improve the quality of health care and clinical software products. Experience collaborating with contributors spanning numerous teams from knowledge management, business and technical architecture, development partnerships, strategic plan and change management. There is no educational substitution for the GS-14 level but you may use education to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0671 series. 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.

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.

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]