Position is located in the Office of the Area Director, Navajo Area Indian Health Service (NAIHS) and delivers healthcare and public health services for American Indians in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. This position works closely with Navajo Area Office and Service Unit leadership to plan, coordinate, analyze, and implement long term capital planning, governmental and tribal partnerships, permits, workload trends, and strategic health initiatives.

Duties

Coordinates Service Unit and Area Office planning activities including a strategic plan and master plan for health facilities. Consults with and provides technical assistance to Area Office Division Directors, Service Unit Directors, and inter- tribal health boards in the formulation, review, and revision of health service delivery plans including the evaluation of the various program elements of a comprehensive health care delivery system. Reviews proposed organizational changes requiring establishment, consolidation, and transfer or regrouping of functions for one or more services and/or sub organizational units. Analyzes and evaluates organizational functions and components (e.g., staffing, budget, personnel, and procurement) to ensure alignment of IHS policies in terms of meeting planned objectives. Coordinates activities to ensure planning processes are directly related to performance outcome measures and ensures planning processes are aligned with related transformational care initiatives. Applies the Facility Construction Priority System used to justify the need for new/replacement facilities. Develops and applies planning assumptions and their justifications in order to certify the need for new services and facilities. Prepares and distributes Program Justification Documents (PJD) and Program Requirements (POR) documents utilizing RRM and the Health System Planning (HSP) process. This also applies to facility planning and capital projects. Performs thorough site and facility assessments, market analysis and utilization forecasts, service lines and operations evaluations, functional space programming, concept development and analysis, and preliminary budget and project scheduling. Performs analyses such as development of life cycle or other cost analysis of projects or performance of cost benefit, economic evaluations and make versus buy studies. Provides successful management, effective decision-making authority, responsibility, and accountability of strategic initiatives. This position is being announced concurrently with announcements listed below, please review each vacancy announcement for eligibility requirements. NOTE: applicants must apply separately to each announcement in order to be considered. Excepted Service/Merit Promotion: IHS-24-NJ-12539730-ESEP/MP

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying. 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; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: 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--- Specialized Experience (for positions above GS-5): 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. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: GS-13: Your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service obtained in either the private or public sector performing the following type of work and/or tasks: Providing short and long term goals of health facilities, that include strategic planning, initiate and manage health service delivery plans, and monitors and tracks ongoing projects. Identifying program planning issues and dealing with complex situations relative to resource funding, implementing organizational and procedural changes at an area wide level. Perform site and facility assessments, analysis, evaluations, concept development, budget and project scheduling of current and future health facility/system plans and integrate these into an Area Wide Plan. You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.

Education

• Only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education may be credited. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: https://www.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 Navajo Area Indian Health Service PO Box 9020 Window Rock, AZ 86515 US
• Name: Navajo Area IHS Human Resources
• Email: [email protected]