Clarification from the agency

Employees of Veterans Health Administration and current or former VA agency employees enrolled in CTAP (Career Transition Assistance Program).

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Duties are but not limited to:

Directs and oversees a system-wide, multidisciplinary Compliance and Business Integrity Program for a VHA Health Care System, ensuring alignment with VHA, VISN, and national oversight requirements. Leads auditing, monitoring, investigations, privacy, records management, business compliance, access, scheduling, consult practices, and conflict of interest programs, focusing on identifying, mitigating, and preventing compliance risks. Establishes goals, work plans, and internal controls for the Compliance Section and advises executive leadership on risk avoidance and mitigation strategies.

Develops, implements, and maintains comprehensive policies, procedures, and training programs that support corporate compliance across all disciplines, ensuring consistency with VA Central Office, OIG, and other regulatory bodies. Creates formal education plans, including orientation, annual refreshers, job-specific, and corrective training, and ensures leadership approval and system-wide implementation. Serves as Chair of the Health Care System Compliance Committee, providing regular reports to the Health Care System Director and VISN Compliance Officer.

Designs and executes formal auditing and monitoring plans using industry standards and VHA guidance; oversees causation analyses and corrective action plans resulting from audits, investigations, and external reviews. Prepares monthly and annual compliance reports evaluating program effectiveness, risk assessments, and future mitigation strategies. Maintains awareness of applicable laws and regulations and manages confidential complaint intake, tracking, and resolution, including documentation and enforcement of disciplinary actions.

Coordinates and conducts investigations of non-compliance, including informal inquiries and formal Administrative Investigative Boards, ensuring proper scope, training, documentation, and timely reporting. Refers potential fraud, waste, or abuse to VA OIG and other legal violations to appropriate authorities. Participates in external surveys and reviews, conducts facility risk assessments, and provides expert guidance on compliance concerns. Functions as the subject matter expert for Business Compliance and Investigations, with access to sensitive records, and ensures continuous staff competency through a robust, multidisciplinary training program.

Work Schedule: 7:30am- 4pm or 8am- 4:30pm
Telework: This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Health System Specialist/PD011570
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/11/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR). An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can't be waived.

• Education: Undergraduate or Graduate Education with a major study in hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. OR
• Experience: You must have 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.
• Special Provision for In-service Placement: Successful completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program may be substituted for qualifying experience, provided it included a formal individualized training plan. Such a training program must have been conducted in an operating health care system and included: Assignments providing a knowledge of basic health system administration philosophies, practices, and procedures, and basic government administrative policies and requirements; Practical assignments providing an opportunity to apply health system administration skills and principles (as the individual progresses, work assignments must be characteristic of the grade level to which he or she is assigned); and Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program.

In addition to the individual occupation requirements listed above, you must also have:

You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: 1.Directed and oversaw a health system-wide compliance program spanning auditing, monitoring, privacy, records management, access, and conflict of interest, ensuring alignment with VHA, OIG, and other regulatory oversight bodies. 2. Led organizational risk identification and mitigation efforts by establishing internal controls, chairing compliance committees, and guiding corrective action plans in response to audits, investigations, and external reviews. 3. Developed and implemented enterprise-level compliance policies, procedures, and training programs to support workforce readiness and sustain regulatory compliance across multiple non-clinical program areas. 4. Supervised and coordinated compliance investigations and complaint intake processes, overseeing data analysis, documentation of violations, enforcement actions, and referrals related to fraud, waste, or abuse. 5. Planned and executed formal auditing, monitoring, and compliance effectiveness reviews, delivering risk-based reports to senior leadership and recommending operational improvements to strengthen health system performance.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
Compliance
Project Management
Risk Management
Written Communication
Problem Solving

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; religions; 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.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: "The work is sedentary. Some work may require movement between offices, hospitals, warehouses, and similar areas for meetings and to conduct work. Work may also require walking/standing, in conjunctions with travel to and attendance at meetings and/or conferences away from the work site. Incumbent may carry and lift light items weighing less than 15 pounds."

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

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.

Narrative responses are not required at this time. If you are referred for consideration, you may be asked to submit additional job related information, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview. Your resume and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify information provided by a candidate (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candidate's abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position.

For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

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