THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (Title 32), Position Description Number D1718000 and is part of the AR ANG 189 MEG GP, National Guard. These positions are authorized for superior qualification consideration. If a selectee is deemed superior qualified for the position, they could start out as a Step 05 on the GS Pay scale. NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQURED

Duties

(1) Directs the overall management of medical support for the Air National Guard installation to include tenant unit(s) and GSU(s). Determines the impact and implements courses of action regarding projected Department of Defense (DoD), National Guard Bureau (NGB), Center for Disease Control (CDC), Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (OASD), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Air Force Occupational Safety and Health (AFOSH), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Military Support to Civil Authorities (MSCA) that affect Air National Guard plans, directives and missions. Ensures medical capabilities support the federal mission of expeditionary medical operations worldwide and state mission of medical response for homeland security and other state medical missions as directed by the Governor. Problem resolution extends beyond medical management and requires internal synchronization, the coordination of external offices at all base command levels, and the involvement of medical entities outside the base including both civilian and military agencies. Performs duties in accordance with established and evolving polices and procedures. (2) Provides medical management and advisory services that contribute substantially to the plans, policies, decisions, and objectives of senior management. Directs Information Management activities within the Medical Group, formulating and interpreting medical policy based on regulatory requirements. Provides policy guidance and interpretation to senior management officials to ensure compliance with medical aspects for the worldwide deployability of Wing/Group personnel, geographically separated units (GSUs), and tenant unit(s). Comprehends the unique medical requirements of organizations subordinate to the Wing Commander, GSUs, and tenant unit(s) in order to guarantee the medical readiness of personnel for worldwide deployment. Represents the Medical Group at nationwide meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops to determine the impact of higher headquarters decisions on local programs. (3) Directs work to be accomplished by the base medical and bioenvironmental programs, ensuring each is developed and implemented according to applicable regulations. Sets priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work. Reviews, accepts, amends or rejects work. Ensures compliance with all regulatory and legal requirements, medical readiness requirements, and the overall integrity of medical information and technology, force health management programs, and initiatives which operate to maintain and ensure a fit and ready force. Provides oversight for the implementation of a variety of federal, state, and local programs to ensure mission effectiveness, i.e. Resource Conservation and Reuse Act; Clean Air Act; Noise Abatement (FAA 150), and National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). (4) Ensures implementation and compliance with Occupational Health for dual and non-dual status personnel, the Occupational Health Program to include the Hearing Conservation Program, Immunization Program, and Fetal Protection Program and provides oversight for base environmental pollution monitoring, Respiratory Protection Program, Radiological Protection Program, Ionizing Radiation Program, Potable Water Quality Program, Hazard Communication (HAZCOM) Program, and Quantitative Fit Testing Program. Enforces diversity, equal employment opportunity, and the labor-management relations program. (5) Analyzes, evaluates, monitors and reports Individual Medical Readiness (IMR) for Wing, tenant unit(s) and GSU personnel. Ensures the installation maintains a strong viable human weapons system force fit for worldwide deployability. Collaborates with the Wing Commander and other senior management officials in the planning and development of short-term and long-term strategies for implementation of the Wing Strategic Plan. Ensures compliance with and preparation for readiness of unit compliance inspections, evaluations, audits, and staff assistance visits including Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI), Health Services Inspection (HSI), Unit Compliance Inspection (UCI), and Environmental Safety and Occupational Health Compliance Assessment and Management Program (ESOHCAMP). Attends staff meetings, formal briefings, and spontaneous informal sessions chaired or called by operations, unit deployments, exercises, and readiness or compliance inspections levied by USAF MAJCOM Inspector General's offices and other auditing agencies. Directs the preparation of reports, directives, correspondence and memoranda pertaining to health services programs. Directs, plans, develops, publishes, and implements policies and procedures within the established controls of higher command echelons. DUTIES CONTINUED UNDER EDUCATION

Requirements

Qualifications

GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience, education or training which provided a general knowledge of principles of organization, management, and administration. Compiling reports, letters, memoranda, etc., and required person-to-person contacts to convey information. Progressively responsible experience which demonstrates the ability to provide technical guidance and assistance in the type of work or in comparable work of the position to be filled. Experience using computer and automation systems SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: 1 year specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Experience, education or training in program or managerial experience in a type of work or a combination of functions directly related to the position to be filled or in comparable work or functions. Experience developing and recommending policy; organizing and carrying out specific programs, evaluating and recommending changes in methods of operations. Experience in supervisory, staff or technical work which included study, analysis or evaluation leading to the development or improvement of managerial or administrative policies, practices and procedures. Experience preparing written communications and oral presentations.

Education

DUTIES CONTINUED:

(6) Implements the medical portion of the Designed Operational Capability (DOC) Statement of the unit. Ensures the Medical Group is organized, trained and equipped for any state or federal contingency to include global contingency deployment. Develops and implements unit plans for execution of deployments In support of the USAF Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) requirements and contingency objectives to meet USAF and Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) goals. Ensures all deploying/mobilizing personnel are medically qualified and fit for world wide duty prior to deployment. Coordinates required AEF planning and resources with other Air National Guard (ANG) and United States Air Force (USAF) units, National Guard Bureau, and other higher headquarters agencies to support and implement the AEF mission. Ensures Wing personnel and personnel assigned to tenant unit(s) and GSU(s) meet deployment requirements for immunizations, physical exams, occupational health exams, quantitative fit testing requirements, etc.

(7) Interprets, implements and administers laws, procedures, regulations and directives pertaining to various Air National Guard (Surgeon General or Medical) stand-alone, networked, or web-based medical systems including Preventative Health Assessment and Individual Medical Readiness (PIMR), Aerospace Services Information Management System (ASIMS), Aero medical Information Management Waiver Tracking System (AIMWTS), Grounding Management Information System (GMIS) Self-Inspection Database (SID), Central Credentials Quality Assurance System (CCQAS), Air Force Complete Immunization Tracking Application (AFCITA), Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System-Hearing Conservation (DOEHRS-HC), Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS), Automated Civil Engineering System - Environmental Management (ACES-EM), or Enterprise Environmental Safety Occupational Health (EESOH) database, Command Core System (CCS), and Web-Based Integrated Tracking System (WBITS). Serves as the Wing Commander's subject matter expert on all medical privacy act issues including the Health Information Protection and Portability Act (HIPPA). Implements the Risk Communication training and education for Wing Leadership. Assures management obtains the maximum benefit from medical resources and information without compromising mission efficiency, safety, and higher headquarters guidance. Provides oversight for the Group's Self-Inspection program and Self-Inspection Database (SID) to validate all functions of the Medical Group are operating in accordance with policy, directives, and guidance from higher headquarters. Implements a suspense system to ensure proper and timely completion of taskings is met for both internal and external programs.

(8) Serves as the installation's technical advisor regarding ANG medical capabilities related to "Homeland Defense" (HLD) and Military Support to Civil Authorities (MSCA). Oversees all directed Federal, state, local and regional planning, training, and exercising of the unit's support of MSCA and the unit's development and maintenance of the Emergency Management Plan (EMP). Provides coordination and support with Joint Headquarters Medical Planner and Regional Medical Planner involving medical activities across agency lines; Federal Emergency Management Agency, state and/or county Office of Emergency Management, environmental offices and agencies and with Wing operations and logistics. Primary liaison for installation involvement in medical response in such areas as Homeland Defense, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), crisis management, counter-drug support, and disaster response. Coordinates with the State Air Surgeon (SAS), Joint State Headquarters Medical Planner, J-3 State Operations Director and staff of MSCA, Regional Medical Planner, community emergency response leaders and professionals, and Air National Guard Surgeon General's Office to identify and plan for the efficient and effective utilization of Wing medical resources and manpower. Serves as the primary full-time medical point of contact in representing the Medical Group with responsibility of interacting and communicating with the Joint State Headquarters, National Guard Bureau, and other military and DOD agencies when executing and overseeing medical assets involved and/or available during a Weapons of Mass Destruction/Homeland Defense Wing, State and/or Regional exercise; and provides medical information, coordination, and execution of the Wing's Medical Emergency Management Plan (EMP) and Full Spectrum Threat Response (FSTR) Plan, State Emergency Response Plan, and Regional Emergency Management Plan. These plans outline and include medical response, situation assessment, preventive medicine, and public health support to Federal or State Command Authorities and in-house operations including patient administration, facility management, logistics, crisis-management, and ancillary support. Medical information includes but is not limited to the medical capabilities of the facility as it pertains to the capabilities of its personnel, resources, training, equipment, etc. when preparing for or responding to wartime federalization or activation to State Active Duty for contingencies such as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) incidents, terrorist attacks, accidents, natural disasters, facility fires, and bomb threats.

(9) Performs other duties as assigned.

Contacts

• Address AR ANG 189 MEG GP Bldg 7300-Camp Robinson North Little Rock, AR 72199-9600 US
• Name: AR HRO Customer Service
• Email: [email protected]