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 CAIO provides executive HHS leadership in the development, implementation, and execution of the Departmental AI strategy to achieve the mission and to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans. The CAIO sets forth an approach and focus areas intended to encourage AI adoption; enables HHS-wide familiarity, comfort, and fluency with AI technology and its potential; promotes AI scaling with the application of best practices and lessons learned from piloting and implementing AI capabilities to additional domains and use cases across HHS; and sparks AI acceleration by increasing the speed at which HHS adopts and scales AI and Machine Learning (ML).

The CAIO provides leadership, overall direction, and expert guidance to officials at all levels in HHS in the transition to AI; formulates Department-wide policy; establishes targeted goals and objectives towards achieving this transition; and develops Department-wide plans and strategies to achieve these goals and objectives. Provides direction, advice, and counsel on the planning, direction, and execution of all organizational AI operations.

The incumbent provides senior executive level, strategic, expert, and authoritative advice, consultation, and executive leadership in the following areas:

Strategic:

• Develops and communicates a comprehensive AI strategy and roadmap for the Department, considering the unique needs and challenges of different OPDIVs and STAFFDIVs.
• Provides visionary leadership to drive AI adoption across the Department.

• Engages in strategic planning, capital planning and investment control, workforce planning, policy and standards development, resource management, knowledge management, architecture and infrastructure planning and management, auditing, and record management.
• Participates in formal and informal management planning, policy and decision-making sessions regarding legislative changes, technological improvements, and changes in Federal and non-Federal policies and standards.

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
• Must pass a pre-employment drug test; random testing after appointment
• 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. Extensive experience with multiple large complex technical programs at a Federal agency, or equivalent large corporate portfolio. Extensive experience leading large project teams that execute across multi-year timelines, providing direction to supervisors, and presenting complex technical, policy, and legal information to executive management, non-technical leadership, and the public. Ability to rapidly adapt and respond to changing technology advances and develop strategies for new health technology initiatives.
2. Extensive knowledge of and demonstrated experience with developing and providing expert technical advice, guidance, and recommendations to management and other technical specialists on critical IT issues, data sharing and integration and applications of AI.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your resume (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 OR YOU WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.