Health System Specialist

Veterans Health Administration•Washington, DC

About The Position

The Health System Specialist (Enterprise Imaging Program Manager) serves within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Diagnostic Services, and provides national-level program management, strategic planning, and technical oversight of the VA Enterprise Imaging Program. The position develops strategy, tactics, infrastructure, technology, and resources for acquiring, using, managing, and archiving clinical images and associated reports across VHA. It also coordinates policy planning, development, implementation, training, testing, and validation, and produces national recommendations, roadmaps, and timelines. The position is scheduled Monday through Friday, 08:00 to 04:30 p.m. Flexible or compressed scheduling may be available. Telework may be available under agency policy, but the employee must report to a VA facility, VA-approved leased space, or another VA-designated federal building unless an exception is approved. Virtual work may be authorized for current VA employees already subject to the return-to-in-person-work mandate in their current position. Return-to-office requirements are in effect; exception or exemption decisions occur after a tentative offer and before a final offer. This is a GS-14 position. Relocation and recruitment incentives and permanent change of station are not authorized. The position requires U.S. citizenship, required application steps and an online assessment, and a background/security investigation. Selected applicants may be subject to drug testing and must participate in the seasonal influenza vaccination program. A one-year probationary or two-year trial period applies, as specified by the agency.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Complete all required application steps, including an online assessment.
For current or former federal employees subject to the time-in-grade requirement, have 52 weeks at GS-13 for the GS-14 position by the announcement closing date.
Meet the individual occupational requirement through qualifying education, specialized health-care experience, or the specified agency-sponsored training provision; the posting states there is no educational substitution at this grade level.
Have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-13 in the normal line of progression.
Specialized experience includes analyzing imaging informatics with quantitative and qualitative techniques; collaborating with services leadership and clinical imaging specialty stakeholders; and leading relevant workgroups.
Specialized experience includes drafting comments and responses to proposed legislation, budget initiatives, and major policy changes in Clinical Services.
Demonstrate mastery, knowledge, experience, and expertise in digital image or enterprise imaging operations, supported health-care clinical domains and imaging modalities, organizational and data management, and analytical abilities.
Submit applicable SF-50 documentation to establish time-in-grade eligibility, if applicable.
Complete a background/security investigation and online onboarding; provide acceptable identification for pre-employment requirements.
Applicants selected for VA employment in a testing-designated position are subject to urinalysis for illegal drug use; refusal results in denial of VA employment.
Register with Selective Service if male and born after December 31, 1959.
Participate in the Department of Veterans Affairs seasonal influenza vaccination program.
Serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.

Responsibilities

Manage short- and long-range planning activities, including multi-year work plans that are products of subordinate organizational projects and programs.
Interact with Congressional staff offices to provide required information.
Organize and participate in market research, technical reviews, conferences, workgroups, and other meetings as needed to achieve program goals.
Develop strategy, tactics, infrastructure, technology, and resources for the acquisition, use, management, and archiving of VHA clinical images and associated reports.
Facilitate discussions and collaboration to organize and capture policy for planning, development, implementation, training, testing, and validation.
Develop strategic documents outlining national recommendations, roadmaps, and timelines, and participate in phase, milestone, and final project reviews.
Analyze imaging informatics using quantitative and qualitative techniques in collaboration with services leadership, clinical imaging specialty stakeholders, and other personnel on assigned special projects.
Lead workgroups relevant to program objectives.
Draft comments and responses to proposed legislation, budget initiatives, and major policy changes within Clinical Services.