Health System Specialist

About the role

This position is located in the Office of Clinical Configuration, Clinical within Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO) located in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs (DEPSECVA). The purpose of this position is to provide support to national health care management officials by analyzing, evaluating, advising on, and coordinating health care delivery systems and operations in relation to VA's Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/01/2026. 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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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. This series requires an IOR (Individual Occupational Requirement) : 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. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: For the GS-13, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to specialized experience under general supervision of work assigned in business/clinical informatics principals, project management and healthcare activities; knowledge of clinical workflows such as nursing, emergency department or other clinical areas in order to analyze EHR solutions and impacts; applying project management tools and techniques as well as change management theory and applications to facilitate execution of initiatives; and communication methods and techniques, both oral and written, to provide detailed written and oral reports and interact effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders including senior leadership and contractors. Specialized Experience: For the GS-14, 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 specialized experience work assigned in business/cl