Clarification from the agency

All groups of qualified individuals.

The Deputy Chief Officer is responsible for supporting the forecasting of enrollment and demand for services, resource requirements critical to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and the Department in the budget process; national health care policy development and analysis; and national rural health care budget oversight.

The Deputy Chief Policy and Planning Officer, is responsible to the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Policy and Planning. The responsibilities includes, but are not limited to:

• Serves as the principal Deputy to the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health (ADUSH) for Policy and Planning with day to day operational responsibility in leading the office and fulfilling the requirements of the Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996, as well as the Office of Rural Health, legislatively mandated by Public Law 109-461 in 2006. The Deputy Chief would be responsible for: forecasting enrollment and demand for services; resource requirements critical to VHA and the Department in the budget process; national health care policy development and analysis; and, national rural health care policy development, analysis, and additional budget oversights.
• Manages one Senior Executive Service (SES) member who serves as the Director of the Office of Rural Health; two GS-15 Directors for the Office of Enrollment and Forecasting and the Office of Policy Analysis respectively; as well as two GS-14 Directors for the Planning Systems Support Group and the Medicare and Medicaid Analysis Center respectively.
• Oversees the development of policy analyses and data-related systems for VHA's overall planning, policy and forecasting functions, as well as the Congressionally-mandated function for the Office of Rural Health. The systems and resulting analyses developed or overseen by the incumbent produce initiatives and plans to guide major components of the organization, and its legislative and policy agendas. This work heavily influences the operations and functions of key VHA programs, initiatives, practices and partnerships.
• Oversees geospatial analyses and tools that are used across VA to optimize health care access.
• Oversees coordination of the acquisition and distribution of Medicare and Medicaid data throughout VHA, as well as the analyses of dual eligible beneficiaries using VHA and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data.

Conditions of employment

• US citizenship is required.
• One year probationary period required for initial SES appointment.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Successful completion of security risk level investigation required.
• Successful completion of drug screening required.
• Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278) is required.
• May be subject to reassignment geographically or organizationally.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicant must possess the following technical and executive core qualifications. These qualifications would typically be gained through progressively responsible management or executive level assignments such as director of a regional office, medical facility or program manager. An individual's total experience, education and volunteer work experience must demonstrate the ability to perform the duties of the position.

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; religious; 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.

MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately. Additional information on ECQs is available at: http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/qualify.asp. Applicants are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Results model outlined in the guide. It is recommended that you draft your ECQs in a Word document and then upload into the system.

1. Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.

2. Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.

3. Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.

4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically.

5. Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: In addition, all applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following TQ(s). Please give examples and explain how often you used your skills, the complexity of the knowledge possessed, the level of people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled managing a large public or private sector organization that administers complex, rules-based benefits or services, etc. It is recommended that you draft your TQ(s) in a word document and then upload into the system.

TQ1: Demonstrated leadership experience in administering health care policy for a large health care organization.

TQ2: Professional and managerial expertise in health care administration, which includes management of legislatively mandated healthcare delivery programs, including rural health, and resource management and evaluation for a large health care organization.

How you will be evaluated

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

Step 1: ECQ qualifications

Step 2: Technical Qualification(s)

Step 3: VA Executive Resources Board

Step 4: Nominating Organization may conduct interviews

Step 5: Approval by the Selecting Official (may include additional screening)

Step 6: OPM Qualifications Review Board certification