Supervisory Health System Specialist

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The Office of Tribal Health works to oversee, maintain, and improve VHA's relationship with Health and Human Services (HHS) Indian Health Services (IHS) and to ensure optimal implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and IHS. The Office of Tribal Health provides comprehensive, compassionate, and quality healthcare, while enhancing the quality of life to American Indian and Alaskan Native Veterans. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/06/2026. 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 Requirement (IOR): An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can't be waived. The education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained. To qualify for the GS 0671 occupational series, applicants MUST possess one of the following: 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 General Experience: Work that required a knowledge of the basic principles and practices related to the management of a health care delivery system. Such experience may have been gained as an administrative officer, management analyst, or administrative or clinical program manager or supervisor in a health care delivery system. OR Special Provision of 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. AND 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 (resume must support 4/6 examples below): Leads and supervises a national team which supports policy, legislative and regulatory activities involving the healthcare of American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans. Provides national advice, strategic guidance and conduct special reviews, studies and/or analyses of program implementation matters related to access to care through national programs or operations of a health care system. Initiates and completes formal and informal processes and cultural protocols required to engage with Tribal Nations at the Nation-to-Nation level, such as White House Council Native American Affairs, VHA-IHS-MOU, Tribal Consultations. Navigates formal and informal national-level communication and protocols with tact and diplomacy in response to complex, high visibility requests for data, metrics, and talking points for coordinating with VA/VHA Communications to stakeholders to include but not limited to the White House, Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs (OCLA), Secretary of Veterans Affairs, VHA Under Secretary, VHA- Deputy Under Secretary of Health, National VACO program offices, Tribal governments (Nation-to-Nation), VISNs, VAMCs, Indian Health Service (IHS), Tribal Health Programs, Urban Indian organizations, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CD

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