Summary The position serves as an independent contributor, project manager, and subject matter expert (SME) on public-private partnerships, healthcare advancement initiatives, veteran community partnerships, public health policy, and community-based health services and resources within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) National Center for Healthcare Advancement and Partnerships (HAP). Responsibilities Major duties include but are not limited to: Serves as an independent contributor and advisor to the Chief Officer and Nurse Executive for HAP. Considered the organization's SME on non-monetary VHA partnerships, veteran community partnerships (VCPs), and healthcare advancement initiatives (HAIs). Primarily responsible for providing expertise, direction, and support for non-monetary partnerships, VCPs, and HAIs across VHA and leading the implementation of policy, procedures, and process improvements that reduce field, stakeholder, customer, office, and staff burden. Advises VHA staff, including partnership points of contact/coordinators, across the Department to develop non-monetary partnerships between VHA and external entities at the local, regional, and national levels. Lead, share, and disseminate partnership, VCP, and HAI best practice(s) including reporting the resulting impacts, outcomes, or benefits. Provides expertise to internal and external stakeholders such as VA and VHA senior leaders; HAP points of contact; partnership, VCP, and HAI coordinators; VA program offices at the national, regional, and local levels; federal, state, and local agencies; Veteran service organizations; and external entities regarding partnerships, VCPs, and HAIs while representing HAP. Provides expertise, advice, and direction to VA points of contact, coordinators, and local, regional (VISN), and national program offices by contributing to the development, operationalization, review, and evaluation of the effectiveness of administrative and operating policies, regulations, and procedures. Serves as an SME to the Chief Officer/Nurse Executive or their deputy on the management, implementation, evaluation, and expansion of VHA partnerships, VCPs, and HAIs including training, outcomes collection, impact measurement, resource development, reporting structure, staffing models, budget impact, and policy review. Provides operational support and management for HAP-led events featuring HAP, partnerships, VCPs, HAIs, and field advisory committees across VHA. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 08:00-04:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: This position may be authorized for ADHOC telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD96184A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest. Qualifications To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/09/2026. 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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. 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 (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED). 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. Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-13) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Applies a wide range of qualitative and quantitative analytical and evaluation methods and techniques to identify and advise on programs, initiatives, and problems involving major program office partnerships, initiatives, its budget decisions, Congressional requirements, statutory regulations, and procedures. Experience in advanced management and organizational principles, quantitative and qualitative methods, and evaluative techniques to manage, plan, coordinate and integrate current or proposed programs into developing strategic management planning to inform program office policy formulation. Expert skill in planning, organizing, and directing multi-functional team projects and skills to effectively negotiate acceptance and implementation of recommendations involving substantial resources and/or requiring extensive changes in established procedures or policies. Independently accomplishes complex projects requiring application of expert analytical and statistical methods and techniques, requiring innovation, skill in evaluating and presenting findings and divergent opinions, and defining and describing feasible options, including the consequences of their adoption, relating to the effectiveness and efficiency of program office policy and processes. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Decision Making Communications Analytical Reasoning Planning and Evaluation Customer Service Strategic Thinking 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, but some light physical effort may be required. 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 There is no educational substitution at this grade level but education may be used to meet the IOR of the 0671 series. A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on 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/. Additional Information This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement. Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process, visit Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance Act.
