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NOTE: This is a virtual position; the site will be determined upon selection. The salary range listed on this announcement only reflects the GS base rate (not including locality). Upon selection, the salary will be adjusted to include the locality adjustment for the specific location.

This position provides politically astute executive leadership for the Health Informatics Health Information Technology (HIT) Standards program to ensure the provision of timely, high quality standards-related consultation, development and outreach to partners within VHA, VA, as well as across the government and in the national and international healthcare communities.

The major duties include but are not limited to:

• Leads and supervises a team of government and contract support analysts and subject matter experts that perform the activities related to the KBS Standards and Interoperability Program;
• Assigns projects, including assessing policy, program and project feasibility; determining program goals and developing implementation strategies; and promoting an organizational structure to support effective work accomplishment;
• Works to develop long range strategic and near term operational plans and objectives, and to develop, implement and monitor comprehensive program plans, budgets and schedules and works to ensure that CIDMO and OHI are effective in its approach to fulfilling the program objectives;
• Provides executive management and strategic direction for the KBS Standards and Interoperability program office working closely with the Interagency Program Office/Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (IPO/FEHRM) and other executive leads and external stakeholders, security funding for program initiatives, and selecting and assigning program staff;
• Convenes meetings to present projects, programs, and issues to higher executive leadership formulating meeting agendas, coordinating the program and speakers, moderating the meeting, making presentations and introductions, and ensuring that the information is presented in a concise, complete, and effective manner;
• Leads interagency departmental policy and planning deliberations and is accountable for the decision-making process;
• Uses specialized knowledge and deep standards related technical expertise to represent the VA Health IT community interests and activities to internal and external organizations involved in development of community-based health information exchange;
• Develops and implements strategies that directly affect the quality and usability of health data and health information systems nationwide;
• Identifies trends in clinical practice, delivery models/environments, and their interrelation with electronic health records, health information exchange methodologies, and health information standard programs within the VA Health IT community;
• Provides leadership and management in the design and delivery of information to improve clinical care and individual and public health;
• Uses clinical expertise and current knowledge of clinical aspects of health care delivery to evaluate the clinical significance and quality of information that is processed (captured, transmitted, and stored) by advanced technology systems; and
• Performs other related duties as required.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/security investigation
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• May be required to serve a probationary period
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

You must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of a Supervisory Health System Specialist? To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-14 grade level in Federal service. Specialized experience includes: 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. Your skills must be documented in your resume to receive full credit.

This position includes two Selective Placement Factors (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to - and essential for - satisfactory performance of the job). Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. The Selective Placement Factors for this position are:

"Are you the primary author of at least one Health Information Technology Standard balloted at Health Level 7 (HL7), Object Management Group (OMG) or other International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standards Development Organization (SDO)?" and

"Are you or have you been a Chair or Co-Chair of at least one working group at Health Level 7 (HL7), Object Management Group (OMG) or other International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standards Development Organization (SDO)?"

You will be rated on the following Competencies as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Health Informatics
• Health Information Technology Standards Development
• Leadership
• Standards Development Organization Operational Engagement
• Systems Thinking

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

Your responses to the assessment questionnaire will be reviewed along with the information provided in your resume and supporting documentation to determine if you are qualified for the position. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your rating may be lowered and/or you may lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.

Candidates who apply under All U.S. Citizens announcements will be rated and ranked using Category Rating procedures. Qualified candidates will be assigned to a quality category. The categories are defined as follows:

• Best qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;
• Highly qualified - applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the requirements of the job;
• Well qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the job; and
• Qualified - applicants possessing experience and/or education that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors.