The position is located within the Veterans Health Administration, Digital Health Office, Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technology, Digital Innovation and Partnership Office and is responsible for reaching out and bringing together experts in emerging technologies across the digital health commercial and federal government environment. This vacancy may be filled in Washington, DC or a location to be determined

Duties

The position will serve as the senior leader for operationalizing the vision to establish partnerships across public and private sectors to enable VA to experiment with and adopt more innovative products. Scanning for new technologies and trends aims to stay ahead of the curve and promote innovative solutions to improve the quality of services provided to veterans. Duties include but are not limited to: Develops and implements a strategic plan for adopting and integrating emerging technologies into the national, VISNs, and VAMCs operations and processes. Engages with internal stakeholders (e.g. Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health, Program Chief Officers, VISN Directors and VAMC Directors) to understand their needs, communicate the benefits of emerging technologies, and ensure their buy-in and support. Develops and delivers national, regional and local training programs and educational resources to increase awareness and understanding of emerging technologies among employees. Develops an emerging technologies outreach and education Concept of Operations that provides a high-level description of the organization's desired future state, and targets organizational strategies, capabilities, and operational requirements to ensure the achievement of its mission. Promotes a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the organization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate emerging technologies into various VHA wide business functions. Effectively communicates the benefits, challenges, and risks associated with emerging technologies to stakeholders at all levels of the organization (e.g. national, regional and local). Stays updated on the latest trends, advancements, and emerging technologies relevant to the organization's industry through consultation with CEOs, CIOs, CTOs and academic and research leaders. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 04:30 PM 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#: Supervisory Health System Specialist/PD486850 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved 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, 01/17/2025. 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-15 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-14. 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. 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 In-service 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 as a healthcare leader implementing Health IT solutions at the national level, providing management, functional, and/or technical leadership to Enterprise-level Subject Matter Expert (SME) teams to develop people, process, and technology solutions in support of clinical and business decisions. Experience providing senior management and/or executive consulting and strategic advice at the request of healthcare executives regarding trends in health informatics or information systems to optimize the capability and the use of the healthcare information technology. Demonstrable experience applying knowledge of health care to manage and plan enterprise-wide healthcare information systems integration, develop processes for workflow standardization, define requirements, and/or establish procedures to work efficiently with SMEs. AND GS-15 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-14 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: Demonstrated experience in research and exploration of a new technology for health care. Fostering and collaborating with new vendors from outside the U.S. government to empower them as effective competitors in the U.S. government market. Demonstrated success in representing the healthcare and caregiving industry's diverse, innovative technology needs. Leadership experience in overseeing and executing a health innovation technology intake and evaluation process. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Stakeholder Management Change Management Technology Awareness Critical Thinking Administrative Management 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 primarily sedentary. There may be some walking, standing, bending, and carrying of light items. No special physical demands are required to perform the work. The travel may be extensive at times requiring all modes of transportation anywhere in the United States and Puerto Rico. The work may require some periods of overtime, intense concentration, emotional and mental stability and involves activities under time sensitive conditions. 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

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 Digital Health Office 6100 Oak Tree Boulevard Independence, OH 44131 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]