Clarification from the agency

All groups of qualified individuals.

The Executive Director Strategic Planning and Analysis, within the Chief Strategy Office, has the responsibility for developing a strategic planning framework to include the VHA Long Range Plan for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and maintaining it to effect implementation of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and VHA strategic goals, objectives, priorities, key actions, outcome measures milestones and targets. This incumbent directs VHA's strategic planning efforts and provides guidance and technical expertise to key VHA officials, VHA strategic planning and policies and ensures the coordination, integration, and synchronization of planning activities at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels to enhance, alignment with the VA Strategic Plan; and coordination with VA - Department of Defense strategic planning and analysis. In addition, the incumbent has the responsibility for conducting strategic analysis that includes market area assessments and evaluation of the VHA 95 market areas and providing health analysis and information to ensure that VA can meet the healthcare demands of the Nation's Veterans.

The Executive Director, Strategic Planning and Analysis reports to the Chief Strategy Officer. The responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Leads, manages, directs the formulation and analysis of health care related policy and planning issues; develops, analyzes, implements, and coordinates system-wide planning goals, objectives, strategies, requirements, and procedures including evaluative tools and planning models to support the Department and VHA operations, program development and policy issues.

Leads and manages the assessment of key trends in health care and translating them as appropriate into strategic guidance for VHA. Manages strategic issues for policy formulation and resolution by the organization.

Prepares directives, regulations and other policy documents to support decision making by national governance bodies including the Governance Board, Strategic Directions Committee and the Under Secretary for Health. Assesses, develops, and implements policy and planning information resources and tools.

Develops analyses, assessments and evaluations associated with the 18 Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs) and 95 VHA healthcare market areas to include the integration of standards from over 60 program offices, strategic management of pertinent healthcare, design and application of strategic analytics and modeling methods to make recommendations on improvements to the enterprise-wide systems to include effects on Veterans, workforce, skills, services, facilities and infrastructure.

Conducts targeted surveys to provide health analysis and information on strategic areas of focus.

Analyzes VA, VHA, and VISN planning documents to identify policy issues that need further development and resolution. Analyzes national documents such as Congressional bills, Office of Management and Budget guidance, and external reviews to identify policy issues that impact on VISN planning. Leads, directs, coordinates and prepares national analyses and reports related to health care planning.

Provides policy direction, expert advice and guidance to VHA leaders on aligning and integrating capital asset initiatives with corporate strategies and Departmental goals and objectives.

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.
• Incumbents of this position will be subject to a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.
• Successful completion of drug screening required.
• Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278) is required within 30 days of appointment.
• May be subject to reassignment geographically or organizationally.
• COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement as required by Executive Order 14043, for further details, refer to additional information below.
• VA structures its SES positions into pay bands. This is a Pay Band 2 position and the salary range is $141,022 to $204,800. Exceptions to the cap of the range may be considered in certain circumstances.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicants 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 each of the following ECQs and include your name on each page. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and demonstrate the underlying competencies in the narrative. Examples should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities; the scope and complexity of the programs, activities, or services you managed; program accomplishments; policy initiatives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues you addressed; and the results of your actions. You should use action oriented leadership words to describe your experience and accomplishments and quantify your experience wherever possible to demonstrate your accomplishments (e.g., number of employees supervised; size of budget managed; amount of money saved, etc.). Applicants should use the Challenge, Context, Action and Results (CCAR) model below when responding to each ECQ:

• Challenge. Describe a specific problem or goal.
• Context. Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (e.g., clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale, etc).
• Action. Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge.
• Result. Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization. These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills.

Your narrative response should not exceed 10 pages, be typed in 12 point font with one-inch margins. It is recommended that you include 2 recent (not older than 10 years) examples per ECQ and draft your ECQs in a Word document before uploading into the system to ensure these guidelines are met. Information that exceeds these guidelines will not be reviewed. Detailed information on each ECQ, the underlying and fundamental competencies, sample narratives and a tips sheet for writing effective ECQs are available in the "Guide To Senior Executive Service Qualifications" GUIDE (opm.gov) at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/.

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. (Underlying Competencies: Creativity and Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, and Vision)

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. (Underlying Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others and Team Building)

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. (Underlying Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving and Technical Credibility)

4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically. (Underlying Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management and Technology Management)

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. (Underlying Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy and Influencing/Negotiation)

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: In addition, all applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following specific TQ(s). Please label and include your name on each page. 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.

TQ 1: Demonstrated experience and expert knowledge of healthcare administration, which includes formulation, analysis, and development of legislatively mandated health care delivery programs.

TQ 2: Demonstrated experience and expert knowledge in healthcare system design, healthcare data management at the strategic level, strategic analysis that includes integration of analytics and modeling to assess and evaluation enterprise-wide integrated health systems.

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