Clarification from the agency

This job is open to current permanent Veterans Health Administration employees, current permanent Federal employees of other agencies, Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), and Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA) eligibles.

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Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Directing, developing, implementing, and overseeing a multi-disciplinary, health-care-system-wide Compliance Section.
• Determines issues, areas, and/or subject matter that create risk for the organization and makes recommendations to executive leadership as to how to avoid or minimize the identified risks.
• Sets priorities and delegates authority to subordinates to carry out day-to-day operations.
• Monitors the work output of subordinates through performance measurement, staff meetings and programmatic reviews.
• Ensures that the policies and procedures within each program area align with VA Central Office, VA Office of Inspector General, as well as other organizations that provide oversight of the health care system.
• Creates written policies and procedures that promote commitment to corporate compliance and address specific areas of risk.
• Functions as Chair of the Health Care System Compliance Committee and provides ongoing and consistent reports, feedback, and outcomes to the VISN Compliance Officer and Health Care System Executive Director.
• Prepares reports for the Health Care System Executive Director detailing compliance initiatives within all disciplines of the Compliance Section.
• Identifies issues or failures that have occurred and recommends changes and improvements to the Health Care System Compliance Section and operational compliance-related activities.
• Utilizes comprehensive knowledge of a wide range of VA administrative laws, policies, regulations in managing the organization's compliance with programs and services.
• Conducts and/or coordinates investigations on reported incidents of non-compliance with VHA administrative policies and directives pursuant to VHA policy.
• Oversees data collection, analysis and proposed corrective resulting from thesespecial studies, reviews and audits.
• Creates a formal, written plan for auditing and monitoring activities of Access practices as well as areas within all disciplines of the Compliance Section.
• Promotes labor-management relations by keeping close contact with the Human Resources Officer and actively works with service chiefs in meeting the affirmative action goals and enforcing the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Plan.
• Advises counsels or instructs subordinate employees on complex administrative matters. Resolves complaints, effects disciplinary actions and approves leave.
• Creates a formal, written training and education plan for all disciplines within the Compliance Section.
• Works with front-line staff, supervisors, managers, service leadership and facility leadership by providing guidance and oversight in the creation and implementation of Causation and Corrective Action Plans to address and resolve any areas of under-performance or noncompliance.
• Identifies employee developmental needs and provides or arranges for training.
• Plans, prepares and ensures the successful execution of formal and information investigations.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Telework: This position is authorized for ad-hoc telework only. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Health System Specialist - Corporate Compliance Officer/PD01063-0
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): 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, 03/23/2026.

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. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

Individual Occupational Requirement:

• Incumbent must possess an undergraduate or graduate level degree 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. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) OR;
• Possess 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.

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: identifying compliance risks relative to specific service lines, functional units or individual positions; initiating, developing and drafting written Health Care System policies and procedures, consistent with agency directives, to ensure local compliance issues are addressed; providing necessary guidance to senior management, Compliance Committee, and Health Care System staff relative to all disciplines within the Compliance section AND applying analytic principles, theories, and techniques to healthcare management and operational systems with a degree of resourcefulness and ingenuity.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Compliance
• Critical Thinking
• Leadership
• Strategic Thinking

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.

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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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