To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement,06/05/2025 .
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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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.
Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): In order to meet the basic requirement of the Health System Administration, 0671 Occupational series, you must possess an undergraduate or graduate level degree with a Major study in hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration
-OR- you must possess 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.
In addition to meeting the IOR above, you must meet the experience requirement(s) for the respective grade levels as described below:
- GS-12 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Extracting data and building reports to manage critical aspects of field operations; Gathers, consolidates, and incorporates best practices of performance metrics and makes recommendations to enhance and improve the effectiveness of program management policy, standards, and review; Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting patient care data; developing database applications, surveys, or other tools to collect required information and update reports.
- GS-13 Specialized Experience: 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: Establishing project goals and objectives; planning, designing, implementing, and improving patient care services and health care delivery systems; developing maintaining, and implementing a comprehensive business plan for assigned programs and assisting other departments with their business initiatives; Design and implementing numerous data reporting systems for inputting and displaying data; management and oversight of SAIL data reporting structure and dashboards.
You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
- Administration and Management
- Data Management
- Interpersonal Skills
- Organizational Development
- Project Management
- Quality Assurance
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 requires frequent walking through the Uptown and Downtown Divisions of the medical center. The work takes the incumbent to every major department and unit in the facility. The work requires community contacts and authority to use government vehicles. Must have vision adequate to use a computer, read printed material and charts a required. Must be able to hear normal voices and able to speak to an audience effectively.
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/.