Health System Specialist

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This position is in the Office of Quality, Safety, Value & High Reliability at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System (VASLCHCS) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The duties and responsibilities assigned to this position are prohibited from being performed below the executive team organizational level within a service line because of the facility wide impact the duties and responsibilities performed have on the functioning of the health care delivery system as a whole. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/02/2026. Health System Administration Series, 0671 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. Work must also have involved some form of the following: Teaching, training, or instructional experience Coaching or mentoring experience Project Management or Project Facilitation experience Data collection and data analysis and/or data interpretation experience Work must have involved experience working with stakeholders and/or customers/clients, requiring ability to communicate effectively. 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 you must also meet the following grade and Specialized Experience requirements: For GS-11: Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-09) in the Federal Service, that is directly related to the work of the position and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties as a Health System Specialist. Qualifying specialized experience would typically include but not limited to the following: analytical skills, project management, administrative skills, ability to communicate verbally and in writing, ability to manage competing priorities. Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; or LL.M., if related . OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and graduate level education as described above, beyond the first year (18 semester hours) to be creditable. To determine if you met these requirements, total your qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determine your education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; then add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. For example, an applicant has 9 months of specialized experience equivalent to GS-9 and 2 1/2 years of creditable graduate level education in music. The applicant meets 75 percent of the required experience and 50 percent of the required education, i.e., the applicant has 1/2 year of graduate study beyond that required for GS-9. Therefore, the applicant exceeds the total requirement and is qualified for the position. (The applicant's first 2 years of graduate study are not qualifying for GS-11.) NOTE: Copies of transcripts must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation. For GS-12: Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-11) in the Federal Service, that is directly related to the work of the position and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties as a Health System Specialist. Qualifying specialized experience would typically include but not limited

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