Supervisory Health Care Education Specialist

Veterans Health Administration • Prescott, AZ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Supervisory Health Care Education Specialist serves as the Designated Learning Officer (DLO) and supervises employees in Health Informatics and Nursing Education for the Northern Arizona VA Healthcare System (NAVAHCS), within the Health Informatics / Education Service line. The role provides leadership for programs across health professions training, staff education, workforce development, and the employee life cycle. It establishes education goals based on organizational needs and leadership input, and oversees the design, implementation, and evaluation of learning programs aligned with NAVAHCS’s mission and future direction.

The position promotes current learning methods, theories, and technologies; evaluates education programs; and develops funding proposals and business cases for learning resources. It supervises staff and programs that include talent management, disruptive behavior prevention and management, training and travel, leadership development, supervisor training, nursing education, and Health Informatics. The role also manages workload, performance standards, long- and short-term training plans, succession planning, employee development, and the learning budget.

This is a permanent, non-virtual position with a Monday–Friday schedule from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Compressed or alternative work hours are not authorized. Applicants selected should be prepared to onboard within 30 days of the announcement closing, subject to completing applicable pre-employment requirements.

Requirements

• Meet the GS-1701 Individual Occupational Requirement through a degree that includes or is supplemented by major study in education or a position-appropriate subject-matter field; or through equivalent education and appropriate experience or additional coursework.
• Have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-11 in the normal line of progression, including experience relevant to managing organizational learning resources, evaluating programs, developing training strategies, balancing workloads, conducting performance reviews, and administering a learning budget.
• Current federal employees and certain former federal employees applying for reinstatement or under VEOA must meet the GS-12 time-in-grade requirement: 52 weeks at GS-11, with supporting SF-50 documentation.
• Be a U.S. citizen.
• Meet applicable pre-employment conditions, including background/security investigation and required onboarding steps; selected applicants must participate in the seasonal influenza vaccination program.
• Serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
• Submit a transcript if using education to qualify; foreign education requires a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with the transcript.

Nice To Haves

• COR certification.
• Project management experience.
• Contract management experience.
• Timekeeping experience.
• Experience facilitating meetings.
• New Employee Orientation facilitation experience.
• Award processing experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction for programs spanning health professions training, staff education, workforce development, and the employee life cycle.
• Use educational needs assessments, supervisors’ identified needs, and senior leadership input to establish organizational education goals.
• Coordinate the conception, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of learning programs aligned with NAVAHCS’s mission and vision.
• Establish and use up-to-date learning and training techniques, theories, and technologies.
• Seek additional funding through special initiatives or grants; conduct cost/benefit analyses of workforce learning proposals and innovative programs; and develop business cases for learning resources using organizational data.
• Review, analyze, and evaluate NAVAHCS-wide learning courses and programs for quality and effectiveness.
• Supervise staff and programs involving the Talent Management System, Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior, Training and Travel, Leadership Training, Supervisor Academy, RNTTP, Scholarships and Tuition Reimbursement, Safe Patient Handling, New Employee Orientation, the Nursing Education simulation lab, and Health Informatics.
• Provide first-level supervision and accountability for department operations and personnel, including staff in GS grades 6–12 and Title 38 nursing staff in administrative roles.
• Modify, distribute, and balance staff workloads and tasks according to workflow, priorities, work difficulty, and employee capabilities.
• Develop performance standards and conduct official performance reviews.
• Develop long-term five- and ten-year training plans and short-term goals and objectives in accordance with national, VISN, and facility priorities.
• Design, initiate, implement, and evaluate succession-planning and employee-development programs.
• Prepare, review, plan, monitor, establish, and administer the learning budget for a large, technically complex organization.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package, with benefits available to the employee and family subject to position eligibility.
• Potential credit toward annual leave accrual for qualifying prior federal, other work, or military service, if requested and approved before appointment; approval is not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager