Health System Specialist

Summary

The Health System Specialist (Enterprise Imaging Program Manager) serves within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Diagnostic Services, and is responsible for providing national-level program management, strategic planning, and technical oversight of the VA Enterprise Imaging Program.

Duties

• This announcement will close on 11/06/2026. The first 50 applications received will receive first consideration. Applications that are submitted after the initial cut-off number has been reached will not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. Duties include but are not limited to: Manages short- and long-range planning activities including multi-year work plans that are the products of subordinate organizational projects/programs. Interacts with Congressional staff offices to provide required information. Organizes and participates in market research, technical reviews, conferences and workgroups, and other meetings (virtual or face to face) as needed to achieve the goals. Generates strategy, tactics, infrastructure, technology, and resources for the acquisition, use, management, and archival of all clinical images and associated reports for VHA. Facilitates discussions and collaborations that organize and capture policy for planning, development, implementation, training, testing, and validation relevant to the department. Independently generates strategic documents outlining national recommendations, roadmap and timelines to include participating in phase, milestone, and final project reviews. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 08:00-04:30p Compressed/Flexible: May be available Telework: Yes-as determined by the agency policy. Will be required to report to either a VA Facility. Agency/VA approved leased space, or anyfederal buildingdesignated by VA unless an approved exemption is granted. Virtual: This position may be authorized for Virtual Work. Virtual Work eligibility is for current VA employees that are already subject to the return to the in-person work mandate in their current position. Definition of Virtual Work: Employee works outside of original hiring duty station at a VA-owned or leased space. Return to Office (RTO): RTO mandates are in effect and selectees will be required to report to in-person work unless they are approved for an exception or an exemption. Any approval for an RTO exception, exemption, or extension will happen after a tentative job offer, but before a final job offer. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD996530 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/09/2026. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Individual Occupational 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 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. In addition to meeting the IOR above you must meet the following specialized experience at the lower grade below. 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: Analyze imaging informatics utilizing quantitative and qualitative techniques in collaboration with Services leadership, clinical imaging specialty stakeholders, and other personnel as assigned to special projects, leading workgroups as relevant to the program and objectives. Draft comments and responses to proposed legislation, budget initiatives and major policy changes in within Clinical Services. Mastery knowledge, experience, and expertise in digital image/enterprise imaging operations, supported health care clinical domains and imaging modalities, organizational, data management, and analytical abilities due to the specialized nature of the work 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.

Requirements

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. 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 identification 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, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Grade: GS 14. . Telework eligible. Apply by 2026-11-09 on USAJOBS.