Clarification from the agency

Open to all groups of qualified individuals. Current employees within the Federal civil service. SES reinstatement eligibles and SESCDP graduates may also apply for noncompetitive consideration.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The incumbent demonstrates and exercises leadership in the functional management and oversight over the Office of Policy (OPOL), which seeks to guide the evolution of Federal health information technology (health IT) priorities, policies, and implementation.

The Principal Deputy Director, OPOL reports to the Executive Director, OPOL and serves as the senior policy strategist and principal advisor who provides to the Executive Director, OPOL advice and guidance with respect to all aspects of OPOL including:

• Providing executive leadership and technical direction to personnel engaged in health IT work related to the planning, development, execution, and coordination of health IT policies.
• Implementing HHS-wide management policy for health IT alignment activities as well as data policy/strategy negotiations for new initiatives and programs associated with the United States Core Data for Interoperability.
• Providing technical leadership to projects the OPOL Executive Director oversees in managing and directing scientific, professional, and technical support personnel engaged in innovation and regulatory activities related to implementing and administering major national programs concerned with leading technology and policy activities organization.
• Leading operations and administrative management matters; management tenets, techniques, and policies; requirements of administrative law and regulations; and methods and procedures.
• Leading efficient and effective administrative operations, resolving matters of major concern, and matters of key policy, promoting and leading major reviews and discussions regarding improvements in administrative/management operations and processes.
• Communicating to ONC employees through regular and special meetings, correspondence, and other means ensuring information and/or developments in the policy/health IT area are communicated to appropriate staff in the organization.
• Representing the Executive Director, OPOL in matters of operations and management to a variety of organizations, including HHS agencies, and other stakeholders; incumbent resolves problems concerning organization and administration in assigned areas; acting as necessary to improve organizational structure, management policies, and techniques; incumbent keeps the total management process in mind to develop solutions to emerging problems in management of a critical and/or controversial nature and which may impact successful implementation of HHS initiatives.
• Providing leadership and support in the development of long-term plans and budget proposals.

Conditions of employment

• This employer participates in the E-Verify Program
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Subject to satisfactory security and suitability determinations
• New appointees must successfully complete a 1-year probationary period
• This is a career position in the SES. Unless the selectee is already a member of the SES with career status or has successfully completed an SES Candidate Development Program certified by OPM.
• Executive qualifications must be approved by OPM before appointment can be effected. If you are selected, you will be responsible for working with an HHS Executive Consultant, or QRB Writer to develop an ECQ narrative for submission to OPM
• You must meet the qualification requirements of this position no later than the closing date of the job opportunity announcement.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement, applicants must demonstrate progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level managerial capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under the Mandatory/Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the equivalent of the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service or its equivalent with state and local government, the private sector, or non-governmental organizations. Failure to meet this basic qualification requirement and all executive and technical qualification factors will automatically exclude you from further consideration.

All competitive candidates for SES positions with the Federal Government must demonstrate leadership experience indicative of senior executive level management capability. To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show in your resume that you possess the Fundamental Competencies, five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs), and the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ's), listed below. It is recommended that your resume emphasize levels of responsibility, scope and complexity of programs managed, and program accomplishments and results.

Fundamental Competencies:

Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Written Communication, Continual Learning, and Public Service Motivation.

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs):

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.

Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQ's):

This position also requires that you possess MTQ's that represent knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. The following MTQ's must be evident in your resume.

1. In-depth knowledge of the laws, regulations, executive orders, Departmental priorities, and other relevant activities governing health informatics, health information privacy and security, and heath information technology, and a demonstrated ability to use that knowledge to develop long term implementation approaches to support policy priorities and the implementation of regulations.
2. Ability to rapidly adapt and respond to changing health information technology advances, develop strategies for new health information technology and health information exchange initiatives, lead the development of novel digital health or health information technology regulatory text, and devise and implement effective approaches and methods for resolving issues in areas where high levels of uncertainty exist and the ability to balance conflicting interests of national or international importance is needed.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your (NOT TO EXCEED FIVE PAGES), demonstrating possession of the technical qualifications and achievement of the five executive core qualifications are the documents that will be used to determine your basic and specialized qualifications for the position. YOU MUST ADHERE TO THE PAGE LIMITS ABOVE AND INCLUDE BOTH DOCUMENTS OR YOU WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.